About us:
Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world. We have over $10B in assets under management and a team of 30 almost all technical staff. We’ve been profitable day one and are focusing on building real consumer applications.
The future we envisage is true on-chain banking. Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards. You can view public analytics on Dune for Cash and Stake.
Position overview:
We’re looking for a senior full backend software engineer to own core backend architecture, transaction processing and high availability. You will belong to a key engineering team focusing on delivering distributed, scalable and robust backend systems. Everything from card transaction processing, low latency apis, microservice architectures and on-chain data indexing. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.
What you’ll do:
Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughout and latency
Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.
Tackle the challenges in user frictions for their card transactions being declined
Drive improvements in our Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems.
What we are looking for:
Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving
You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users
5+ years of professional coding experience
Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality
Plus if you are experienced in web3
Perks and benefits:
Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team
Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
4 weeks work from anywhere
Exciting company events and team-building off-sites
Top Skills
ether.fi Denver, Colorado, USA Office
Denver, Colorado, United States
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