Bags helps creators, artists, and entrepreneurs fund their ideas with coins that anyone can trade. Whether you launch your own project or someone else launches a project for you, Bags gives you a way to earn from your ideas and grow your community.
Bags is a Solana Token Launchpad, founded in 2023. In a short time, we’ve become one of the top revenue-generating products in all of crypto. We’re a small team of 5 people building globally distributed, high-performance systems where low latency is everything. Our users span the world, and our infrastructure must perform at scale, reliably, and fast. We’re now hiring a Backend Engineer to help us scale the systems that power Bags. You’ll work with a team that values speed, precision, and ownership—where every engineer has a massive impact.
What You’ll DoDesign and build backend services in TypeScript and Rust.
Work with Redis, MongoDB, and ClickHouse to handle high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
Build and optimize services that index Solana data using Rust and Carbon.
Design APIs and services that are globally performant and reliable.
Ensure services are fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable, and secure.
Partner with DevOps to ensure smooth deployment and monitoring.
Take ownership of features end-to-end, from design to production.
Help shape engineering best practices as one of our early hires.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js (bonus: Rust)
Solid understanding of Redis, MongoDB, or ClickHouse.
Experience building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems.
Familiarity with Solana or other blockchain data systems (Rust + Carbon experience is a plus).
Strong background in system design and data modeling.
Ability to write clean, efficient, and testable code.
High agency and work ethic—this is a startup role that requires ownership and hustle.
Experience with blockchain data pipelines (especially Solana).
Familiarity with message queues, streaming systems, or event-driven architectures.
Understanding of performance tuning for databases and caching.
Prior startup experience where speed and scale were critical.
Build systems that power the top revenue-generating product in crypto.
Work on globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure where every millisecond matters.
Join a small, elite team where you’ll have an outsized impact.
Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
Remote-friendly with flexible work culture.
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