Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join the Across protocol team as a Senior Backend Engineer to build highly available backend systems, index complex onchain data, and design large-scale data pipelines.

Requirements

• 4+ years full-time experience in Software Engineering at a software, financial services or related technology organization
• 2+years of experience with blockchain-based projects (hackathons or personal projects as well)
• Experience with databases, networking, and data pipelines is strongly preferred
• Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
• Deep interest in software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on
• Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and clean code
• Passion for blockchain technology, cryptonomic protocol design, game theory, and decentralized finance
• Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written

Responsibilities

• Building backend services: Build highly available backend systems, both serverless and persistent
• Indexing complex onchain data: Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access
• Data engineering: Design and develop large-scale data pipelines to drive our understanding of our users and our protocol’s real-world performance
• Building bots and smart contracts: Build bots and other services whose primary role is to monitor smart contracts and send transactions
• Code review and mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. As much of your day will be spent reviewing and designing code as it will be writing new code

Benefits

• Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options
• Salaries for this role range from $100-200k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem
• Will pay in stablecoins or fiat
• 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in