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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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170K-200K Annually
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170K-200K Annually
Mid level
The role focuses on building secure transaction processing systems and enhancing the DeFi banking experience while ensuring high-quality coding standards.
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About Us:

Ether.fi is an innovative, rapidly growing crypto-native financial platform on a mission to put users in control of their wealth—making it easy to save, earn, and spend crypto. Positioned as a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) bank, ether.fi offers a fully integrated, non-custodial suite of products—StakeLiquid, and Cash—that bridge crypto utility with real-world convenience.

With over $8B in assets under management and a lean, agile team of 25+, we’re building sustainable, secure, and scalable financial infrastructure to onboard the next billion users to crypto. Our offerings include liquid staking, automated yield strategies, and crypto-native payment solutions like credit cards, enabling a comprehensive decentralized banking experience.

Learn more at ether.fi.

Position Overview:

We’re looking for engineers who want to build & ship. People who get a kick out of solving challenging problems, hacking on side projects, and building things that actually ship. The primary focus of this role is building robust, secure, and efficient transaction processing systems and building rich features to provide the best DeFi bank experiences.

You'll also have the opportunity to impact other exciting projects within ether.fi, enhancing your scope of influence and technical growth.

What you will do:

  • Building the future of finance, DeFi bank, and bringing it to the real world use cases

  • Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.

  • Implement and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Terraform

  • Drive improvements in our CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems to streamline operational efficiency.

  • Engaging in rigorous testing, code reviews, and documentation to uphold high standards of quality and maintainability.

What we are looking for:

  • Have strong fundamentals in software engineering & enjoys problem solving and have shipped something real.

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining server-side applications.

  • 5+ years of professional coding experience.

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, data consistency, and scalability.

  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native tools

  • Enthusiasm for joining a dynamic, collaborative, and fast-paced environment.

Perks & Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant

  • Opportunity to work with a Top 4 Ethereum protocol, by TVL

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth within the organization

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance plans

  • Collaborative and inclusive work culture

  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space

  • 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

AWS
Terraform

ether.fi Denver, Colorado, USA Office

Denver, Colorado, United States

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