Staff Backend Engineer — On-Chain Savings App

Logoslabs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Aave Labs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to build the backend infrastructure behind Aave App, a consumer savings app that makes onchain financial products simple, secure, and intuitive. You will own broad technical areas, turning ambiguous goals into reliable production systems with strong correctness, security, and operability.

You will design and implement backend services, transaction orchestration, and data pipelines, collaborating across teams to deliver coherent customer experiences

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with ownership of complex production systems.
• Production experience with Rust is highly desirable; other strong systems languages considered.
• Experience building distributed, event-driven, data-intensive systems with reliability and performance requirements.
• Strong knowledge of API/GraphQL design and relational databases such as PostgreSQL; caching and queues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services for Aave App across onboarding, funding, savings, withdrawals, portfolio data, and customer communications.
• Build transaction orchestration and indexing services to safely manage onchain activity through its full lifecycle.
• Integrate with smart contracts, RPC providers, account infrastructure, and payment partners; design for degraded dependencies.
• Lead technical reviews and improve testing, observability, alerting, incident response, and deployment practices across the backend codebase.
• Collaborate with mobile, web, product, design, security, data, and operations teams to deliver coherent consumer experiences.
• Raise engineering standards through hands-on delivery, pragmatic architecture, and clear documentation.

Skills

Backend engineering

Rust

Distributed systems

API design

GraphQL

Observability

PostgreSQL

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ClickHouse

Job description

Aave Labs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to build the backend infrastructure behind Aave App, a consumer savings app that makes onchain financial products simple, secure, and intuitive. You will own broad technical areas, turning ambiguous goals into reliable production systems with strong correctness, security, and operability.

You will design and implement backend services, transaction orchestration, and data pipelines, collaborating across teams to deliver coherent customer experiences