Staff Backend Engineer — Fomo

The Bitcoin Street Journal; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

fomo, a trading app, seeks a Staff+ Backend Engineer in NYC to own backend services across crypto infra and analytics data ingestion. You’ll work on trade execution, on-chain data, and scalable infrastructure.

The team comprises frontend and backend engineers with crypto-native backgrounds; stack is primarily TypeScript/Go with some Rust, and the role is in-person in Soho, NYC.

Qualifications

• Staff+ level backend engineer with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience building crypto-related infrastructure (Solana or EVM).
• Strong Go/TypeScript and systems design skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services and crypto infra for trading platform.
• Ingest on-chain data and support portfolio analytics.
• Scale and optimize infrastructure for high throughput.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Solana

EVM

PostgreSQL

Job description

• Company: Fomo
• Location: New York, NY, USA
• Sector: Blockchain
• Source: web3.career

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

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.

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.