Staff Software Engineer- Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team within the Platform organization. You will own the architecture and technical direction of wallet infrastructure, liquidity orchestration, and cross-chain bridging systems that move crypto assets across 55+ protocols for millions of users.

You will build and operate Go-based backend services, drive reliability and observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with Go.
• Experience building large-scale distributed services.
• Hands-on blockchain experience including cross-chain bridging.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, architecture, and roadmap for wallet, liquidity, and bridging systems.
• Build distributed backend services in Go for liquidity movements and cross-chain flows.
• Decompose monoliths into modular services for multiple teams.
• Collaborate with Trading, Custody, Staking, and platform teams to align wallet infrastructure with standards.
• Lead reliability, observability, and incident response for Tier-0 systems.
• Mentor engineers and shape engineering culture across the team.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Blockchain

Cross-chain bridging

Service-oriented architecture

Architectural leadership

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? Atthe company, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. the company is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”learn more about working at the company.

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team within the Platform organization. This team builds and operates the wallet systems, liquidity orchestration, and bridging infrastructure that power how the company moves crypto assets across 55+ blockchain protocols for millions of users. You'll own the architecture and technical direction of these systems, driving the next generation of wallet infrastructure that constructs, signs, broadcasts, and reconciles on-chain transactions with the speed, reliability, and security our customers expect.

What you'll do:

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the company's wallet, liquidity, and bridging systems, defining how these platforms evolve to support new chains, assets, and product use cases at scale.
• Build and evolve the distributed backend systems (Go) that orchestrate liquidity movements, cross-chain bridging, and transaction lifecycle management across custodial and non-custodial flows.
• Drive service-oriented architecture improvements by decomposing legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services that reduce complexity and accelerate integration for downstream product teams.
• Partner with Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform engineering teams to define integration contracts, resolve cross-team dependencies, and align wallet infrastructure with company-wide architectural standards.
• Lead reliability and operational excellence for wallet services, owning observability, incident response, and systemic improvements that prevent recurring failures across Tier-0 systems.
• Shape engineering standards and technical culture across the team and broader Blockchain Platform organization through design reviews, architectural RFCs, and mentoring engineers on best practices.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in Go and designing large-scale, service-oriented distributed systems.
• Demonstrated track record of architecting and operating production backend services that handle high-throughput transaction volumes with strict correctness and reliability requirements.
• Hands-on experience with blockchain technologies, including transaction construction, signing, broadcasting, key management, or cross-chain bridging across protocols like Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana.
• Proven history of decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or platform primitives that multiple teams depend on.
• Track record of influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority, including driving architectural decisions, leading cross-team initiatives, and representing your area in org-level forums.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Job #: P78322

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$218,025—$256,500 USD

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