Software Engineer - Backend

SOLANA FOUNDATION; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Artemis, based in New York City, is creating an open data platform for digital finance. We are seeking a backend engineer who will help build and scale APIs that power dashboards and 0→1 products, working closely with a small, high-performing team in a hybrid NYC setting.

You will own high-performance APIs, leverage FastAPI with DuckDB and Postgres, and contribute to on-chain data tooling while collaborating with customers and crypto partners to shape product direction.

Qualifications

• Backend engineer with a focus on scalable APIs and data-heavy products.
• Experience designing robust APIs for production use.
• Familiarity with on-chain data is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale high-performance APIs powering Artemis products.
• Own API reliability, latency, and developer experience for customers.
• Collaborate with the data and product teams to evolve on-chain data tooling.
• Engage with customers to gather feedback and inform product direction.
• Help shape the engineering culture and team growth.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Python

On-chain data

Tools

FastAPI

DuckDB

Postgres

React Native

NextJS

Job description

About Artemis

Traditional finance and crypto-enabled finance are merging into digital finance — an open, global financial system for everyone. Stripe launched its own blockchain, JPM is getting involved with stablecoins, Robinhood launched tokenized stocks and its own blockchain.

Finance is moving onchain and it’s accelerating.

Previously platforms like Bloomberg, CapIQ, and FactSet became the information layer on top of finance, growing into $1–$10B ARR businesses. But these platforms weren’t built for a crypto-native world.

Artemis is building the open data platform for digital finance — organizing and standardizing the metrics that matter for blockchains, tokens and stablecoins, all in one place.

Functionally, we offer a “Bloomberg-like” Terminal trusted by Visa, Circle, Tether, Grayscale, VanEck, Franklin Templeton, Solana, Base, and others — alongside Excel plugins, APIs, and Snowflake Data Shares LOVED by some of the world’s largest asset managers.

Our mission is to make crypto’s promise of an open financial system real and to empower anyone, anywhere, to become a world-class investor in digital finance.

Who we are

"Humans wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success" — Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer

At Artemis we’re doing really challenging things, very much inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s mindset. Hard things are not for everyone, only the select few who have superhuman-levels of mental fortitude, optimism, compassion, and courage.

If this is who you are — let’s talk!

We’re a passionate group of TradFi ex-analysts, crypto-natives, and folks set on building the future of finance. We come from Meta, Coinbase, Blackrock, Messari, Ribbit Capital, EY Blockchain, and Insight Partners. We raised from the best venture capitalists in the world and would love to tell you more.

We index highly on passion, motivation, and a mindset like Ernest Shackleton’s. No formal experience engineering specifically in crypto, traditional finance, fintech, or investment banking is required.

What you'll do:

• Help Artemis grow: We are at an inflection point where we have paying customers, a strong pipeline of prospects, and are scaling. You will have a defining role to build APIs that will support our expanding product lines, dashboards, and 0 → 1 products.

• Own and build High Performance APIs: We’re at 50k MAUs, now scaling to 200k+. We are constantly growing to new customer bases and onboarding institutional clients which requires us to have robust and performant APIs. As a backend engineer at Artemis we expect you to be able to build scalable and performant APIs that are the backbone of multiple Artemis Products used by everyone from liquid token funds to large hedge funds.

• Push the limits of crypto data products: Our mission is to redefine how people use and understand crypto data by creating what we call N of 1 products (like onchain AI data analysts!) We start by powering the most sophisticated investors in the space and then opening that product to the 100s of thousands of users that use our site for free.

• Help us move more onchain: We have many exciting projects to help bridge our terminal product and data sets to more on chain native primitives. As an engineer at Artemis, you’ll work the team to integrate with leading onchain platforms.

• Talk to customers: We have a core value #customerobsession and you'll interact with our customers directly by supporting them and collecting feedback to inform what product we build. Work closely with our partners at crypto protocols and foundations to build products that will be deeply embedded into their workflows.

• Build the team: you'll play a big role in creating the culture and workplace that you want to work at.

Who you are

• You’re a passionate backend engineer

• You want to build n of 1 products i.e., products that have never been built before and redefine how this space operates.

• You take ownership and pride in your work, balancing autonomy with collaboration

• You thrive in fast-paced, high-context environments, where you can exercise judgment and move ideas from concept to production quickly

• You’re a self-starter who values reliability, clarity, and impact over hierarchy

• You want to work in-person (hybrid) with a high-performing, low-ego team in NYC

• Prior experience working with onchain data and onchain development is a plus

Our stack:

• Backend: FastAPI Python Backend, DuckDB, and Postgres

• (Frontend: React Native + NextJS Frontend)