Staff Backend Engineer

Fomo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

fomo in New York City is seeking a backend engineer to help own and evolve our crypto infra, social features, and data pipelines. You’ll join a small, highly skilled team building on a TypeScript/Go microservices stack with some Rust, and you’ll have room to contribute across backend and sometimes frontend.

This in-person role is based in NYC with a newly opened Soho office, and it rewards autonomy, deep crypto experience, and a track record of delivering scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Staff+ level engineer with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience building in crypto, Solana or EVM preferred.
• Full-stack React experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop trade execution and crypto infrastructure components.
• Ingest on-chain data and support portfolio tracking.
• Research and implement social content recommendation features.
• Handle analytics data ingestion and analysis.
• Improve infrastructure scaling and performance.

Skills

Staff+ level engineer

Crypto experience

Full-stack React experience

Tools

React

Job description

About fomo

fomo is a trading app for the rest of us. With fomo you can sign up in seconds and have instant access to any asset on-chain without the need for external wallets, bridges or prior knowledge. fomo has social features that are actually useful - follow top traders (with full access to their portfolio and trades) and find tokens early. fomo does all of this while providing the best-in-class execution and data for experienced traders.

https://x.com/fomo

About the team

You'll be joining a team of nine on the engineering side: 4 frontend engineers, 5 backend engineers. Everyone on the team is crypto-native with experience from companies like dYdX, Uniswap, and OpenSea. We have high standards for ourselves and the people we work with.

About the role

Backend engineers at fomo work on a little bit of everything across all areas of the business - from crypto infra to social network scaling. Some things our engineers spend time thinking about:

• Trade execution and infrastructure

• Onchain data ingestion and portfolio tracking

• Social network content recommendation engines

• Analytics data ingestion and analysis

• Infrastructure scaling and optimization

Our stack is mainly a TypeScript/Go microservices architecture (with a little bit of Rust).

Engineers at fomo aren't constrained to any specific area - while this is primarily a backend opening, we encourage our backend engineers to contribute to the frontend when it makes sense (and vice-versa).

This role is in-person in NYC. We have a strong in-person culture and just moved into a new spacious office in Soho.

Ideal candidate

• Staff+ level engineer (6+ years of experience), able to come up with and execute on plans autonomously

• Has experience building in crypto (Solana or EVM experience preferred)

• Full-stack (React) experience is a plus

Personal crypto trading experience is a plus - everyone on our team trades, and it is what lets our product stand out amongst the competition.