Location: Remote (US preferred)

Competitive base salary ($175K - $225K)

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a high-growth, venture-backed crypto company is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help build next-generation autonomous trading infrastructure.

This is a senior, ownership-heavy role working on real-time trading systems, wallets, and execution infrastructure operating under extreme market conditions. The client is highly responsive and only interviewing candidates who meet all criteria.

🚨 Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria

Candidates must have all of the following:

• Hands-on experience with crypto wallets, tokens, and/or trading systems
• Deep production experience with Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Deep familiarity with trading APIs, execution flows, and transaction lifecycles

If any of the above is missing, this role will not be a fit.

The Role

You’ll own core systems inside the Agent Runtime — the infrastructure that prevents autonomous agents from destroying capital. Specifically:

• Hyperfeed data pipeline — executing the enrichment roadmap: OI velocity, funding history, liquidation data, cross-asset flow detection. Server-side computation at scale.
• Runtime execution layer — serial signal processing, atomic state management, idempotent order submission, risk enforcement against live exchange state
• DSL exit engine — the trailing stop-loss state machine that protects every open position. Two-phase architecture, exchange reconciliation, state recovery
• Scanner subsystem — building new scanner types, optimizing the provider layer, wiring new Hyperfeed signals into the confluence scoring system
• Learning agent infrastructure — building the systems that let agents observe every trade, identify failure patterns, propose runtime improvements, and launch new experiments autonomously
• Scale — taking the runtime from hundreds of agents to tens of thousands

What They Are Looking For

Seniority & Ownership

• Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, complex systems
• Proven ability to lead work end-to-end: problem definition → architecture → production
• Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments

Crypto-Native Experience (Essential)

• Direct experience building or operating crypto wallets, trading platforms, or execution systems
• Deep understanding of real-world market behaviour, volatility, and scale
• Strong intuition for how trading systems behave under stress
• Crypto experience is essential. Product specifics can be learned - crypto fluency cannot.

Technical Skills

• Strong production experience with:
• Golang
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Experience building high-throughput backend services
• Python experience (scanners and DSL components) is a plus
• Actively uses AI tools in development and iteration (must-have)

Operating Excellence

• Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response
• Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping

Compensation & Upside

• Competitive base salary ($175K - $225K)
• Meaningful equity (~1%)
• Performance-based bonuses tied to revenue and usage
• Token participation aligned with future protocol launch

Interview Process

1. Hiring Manager Interview
2. CTO Intro Call
3. Technical Interview
4. Technical Interview
5. Founder / CEO Interview

Location

• Remote (US preferred)
• Strong preference for Austin, TX (office planned)
• Exceptional candidates in Europe will be considered