Staff Backend Engineer - Crypto & Blockchain (Remote)

Phantom; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Comprehensive insurance (medical/dent/

Stipend for remote setup

Flexible hours

Unlimited vacation

401(k) retirement plan

Monthly wellness benefit

Weekly meal benefit

Global off-sites

Job summary

Phantom is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to design and maintain the backend services and APIs connecting Phantom Cash to blockchain networks. You’ll balance reliability, quality, and speed while mentoring peers and improving the engineering bar.

You will work across distributed systems, emphasize scalable architectures, and collaborate with cryptography and fintech-focused teams to ship high-impact features in a fully remote environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Pragmatic engineering mindset focused on results and user impact.
• Proactive and outcome-oriented with feature delivery.
• Strong communication and problem solving skills.
• Experience with Node.js/NestJS at scale; event-driven design.
• REST API design including versioning, pagination, auth, rate-limiting.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and evolve backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate across pods, document rigorously, and mentor others.
• Ensure reliability, quality, and scalability of Phantom Cash backend.

Skills

Node.js

NestJS

Event-driven设计

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Frontend awareness

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Phantom is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to design and maintain the backend services and APIs connecting Phantom Cash to blockchain networks. You’ll balance reliability, quality, and speed while mentoring peers and improving the engineering bar.

You will work across distributed systems, emphasize scalable architectures, and collaborate with cryptography and fintech-focused teams to ship high-impact features in a fully remote environment.