Location: Remote - NYC preferred. Also open to US remote.

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $200K - $275K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a leading innovator in the blockchain space who is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer/ Staff Backend Engineer (with deep Go expertise) to join their core backend team. Our client has developed a real-time parimutuel prediction market platform built on Solana, designed to integrate ultra-fast, 60-second to 30-minute prediction markets directly into livestream environments and web platforms.

Following a successful $1M pre-seed round in April 2026 led by prominent venture participants in the Solana ecosystem, the organization is scaling its infrastructure to handle high-concurrency, traffic patterns. As one of the first backend engineering hires, the successful candidate will own critical systems responsible for market creation, settlement, and automated payouts during high-stakes global livestream events.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own core backend systems powering the clients user-facing product
• Design, build, and operate low-latency Go services that serve critical application and blockchain-related read state
• Improve and harden our indexing, caching, database, and service architecture for scale, correctness, and reliability
• Design systems that can absorb highly bursty traffic and recover cleanly under failure
• Own observability across logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, profiling, and production debugging
• Be directly involved in incident response, uptime, scaling, and backend reliability
• Work closely with the founders on architecture, product shape, and technical tradeoffs
• Propose better systems, better abstractions, and better product behavior instead of waiting to be told what to build
• Help set the bar for backend engineering as the company grows

Requirements

• Expert Go Proficiency: Deep expertise in Go, including sophisticated concurrency patterns, context management, race detection, and profiling.
• Distributed Systems Mastery: A proven track record of building user-facing, low-latency systems at scale. You understand idempotency, ordering guarantees, and consistency tradeoffs.
• Database Fundamentals: Strong experience in schema design, transaction management, and performance tuning for high-throughput applications.
• Operational Excellence: Experience operating production systems directly, including modern DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP) and live incident response.
• Startup DNA: Comfort in a high-autonomy, "docs-heavy," and async-first environment where you move quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time systems such as websockets, pub/sub, streaming, or event-driven architectures
• Strong security instincts and experience hardening backend systems
• Crypto or Solana experience

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: Base salary range of $200,000 – $275,000.
• Equity & Incentives: Comprehensive package including tokens and equity.
• Remote Flexibility: 100% remote
• Innovation: Opportunity to work on a first-of-its-kind product backed by top-tier strategic investors.