Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Ether; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based incentives

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Global team with travel opportunities

4 weeks work from anywhere

Exciting company events

Job summary

A leading crypto company in New York is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own core components of backend architecture. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, a strong foundation in software engineering, and a passion for delivering scalable solutions. Perks include competitive salary, health benefits, and opportunities for remote work. Join us to build the future of on-chain banking.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional coding experience.
• Experience shipping products with thousands of real users.
• Drive and willingness to work hard.

Responsibilities

• Own core areas of backend systems to improve throughput and latency.
• Keep credit-card processing highly available & low-latency.
• Ship high-quality code and ensure engineering excellence.

Skills

Strong fundamentals in software engineering

Problem solving

Web3 experience

Job description

About us:

Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world. We have over $10B in assets under management and a team of 30 almost all technical staff. We’ve been profitable day one and are focusing on building real consumer applications.

The future we envisage is true on-chain banking. Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards. You can view public analytics on Dune for Cash and Stake.

Position overview:

We’re looking for a senior full backend software engineer to own core components relating to backend architecture, transaction processing and availability. You will form a key part of engineering team focusing on delivering scalable and well designed backend systems. Everything from card transaction processing, low latency apis, microservice architectures and on-chain data indexing. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.

What you’ll do:

• Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughout and latency

• Keep our credit-card processing path highly available & low-latency

• Work alongside other engineers to ship high quality code and ensure engineering excellence

• Engage with core business metrics such as user adoption, to revenue figures and error rates

What we are looking for:

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving

• You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users

• 5+ years of professional coding experience

• Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality

• Plus if you are experienced in web3

Perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant

• Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans

• Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world

• 4 weeks work from anywhere

• Exciting company events and team-building off-sites