Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Bitwise, a leading crypto asset manager, and become a key member of our lean engineering team. Build and maintain backend systems using TypeScript and Node.js, focusing on APIs, job schedulers, and index calculation engines. Redesign and scale our job orchestration framework for improved fault tolerance and cross-language compatibility. Maintain and evolve our data pipeline using tools like Fivetran, DBT, and Snowflake. Collaborate with leadership to prioritize and deliver impactful solutions. Drive reliability and operational excellence through on-call rotations and performance monitoring. Contribute to a positive engineering culture through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship. Shape the future of finance with code that matters.

Requirements

• +5 years of real world software engineering experience
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (e.g., TypeScript, Python, C++, Go, Java)
• Experience with data pipelines, databases, and cloud platforms (e.g., Mongo, Snowflake, AWS, Heroku)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Datadog and Sentry along with best CI/CD practices

Responsibilities

• Build backend systems in a modern monorepo
• Work hands-on in a TypeScript + Node.js codebase, designing and developing backend services that power APIs, job schedulers, and index calculation engines
• You'll write clean, testable code that supports both real-time and batch processing
• Redesign and scale our job orchestration framework
• Help the greenfield overhaul of our Node-based jobs infrastructure to create a fault-tolerant system supporting cron-like scheduling, DAG-based dependencies, and cross-language compatibility
• Your work will enable scalable execution pipelines that are critical to our business operations
• Maintain and evolve our data pipeline
• Own key pieces of our modern data stack —including Fivetran for ELT processes, DBT for transformations, and Snowflake for warehousing —ensuring data integrity and quality for critical analytics purposes
• You'll be responsible for the correctness and reliability of our data workflows
• Collaborate directly with leadership
• Work closely with the CTO and business leaders in our tight-knit team to scope, prioritize, and ship improvements to internal tooling and backend systems
• You'll help manage timelines and expectations while balancing long-term vision with immediate business needs
• Drive reliability and operational excellence
• Join the on-call rotation, monitor system performance, and contribute to observability practices that keep our systems highly available and performant
• You'll play a key role in incident response and infrastructure reliability
• Contribute to engineering culture
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and sprint planning
• You'll help set quality standards and mentor others through collaboration and example

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Knowledge of job orchestration frameworks and DAG-based workflow systems
• Experience with modern ETL/ELT processes and data transformation tools
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Eligible for equity
• Health, dental, vision insurance
• 401K plan (company funded, no match required)
• Unlimited PTO plus 10 paid holidays
• Meals/snacks in office
• Paid cell phone or stipend
• Bitwise "Buddy" Program (30 day onboarding)
• Annual birthday/anniversary gifts
• Company wide events
• $180,000 - $220,000 a year
• Equity compensation as a component of all offers