Staff Backend Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
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New York, NY
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer at Superstate, you'll build and maintain backend systems and APIs that integrate blockchain technology with traditional finance, while also leading infrastructure efforts and mentoring junior engineers. Your work will focus on designing high-performance, fault-tolerant systems that enhance investment product efficiencies.
Summary Generated by Built In

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.


As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. You'll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.

What you'll do

  • Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance
  • Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians
  • Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent
  • Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts
  • Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
  • Teach and mentor other engineers

What you'll bring to the team

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Deep Rust experience
  • Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites
  • Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization
  • Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
  • Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset

Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

  • Pulumi or Terraform
  • AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave
  • Cloudflare
  • Postgres
  • Docker
  • Typescript
  • Solana Programs
  • Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges
  • Solidity or Yul
  • Foundry

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.


Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.

Top Skills

Rust
Solidity
SQL
Typescript
The Company
New York, New York
19 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Superstate is an asset management firm modernizing the infrastructure of investment funds for crypto native institutional investors.

We offer investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. Learn more about our products for institutional investors at Superstate.co.

Superstate is currently exempt from registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in reliance on the private fund adviser exemption under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”). Information about Superstate can be found by visiting the SEC website www.adviserinfo.sec.gov and searching for our firm name. Neither the information nor any opinion expressed is to be construed as solicitation to buy or sell a security of personalized investment, tax, or legal advice.

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