Location: Fully remote in India

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $50K - $70K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a high-growth fintech powerhouse operating at the intersection of Prediction Markets, AI, and Blockchain technology. With over $200M in annualized volume and a 100% weekly growth rate, they are rapidly redefining how decentralized markets operate. They are backed by world-class investors, including CMT Digital and AllianceDAO, the premier accelerator for the crypto and AI ecosystem.

They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own and scale the low-latency, high-throughput systems that sit directly in their trade execution path. This is not a "standard" backend role; you will build performance-critical infrastructure where micro-optimizations, architectural correctness, and extreme reliability are the difference between success and failure. You will work in a high-stakes environment where your code manages real money and real volume every second.

Responsibilities

• Core Trading Systems: Design and architect robust backend systems for order routing, real-time execution, pricing engines, and financial reconciliation.
• Performance Engineering: Optimize services for sub-millisecond latency, high throughput, and maximum fault tolerance across a distributed architecture.
• Architecture & Strategy: Take full ownership of architectural decisions with immediate production impact, working directly with the CEO, COO, and founding engineering team.
• Production Excellence: Operate close to the "money flow," ensuring system integrity during periods of extreme market volatility and high-volume bursts.
• Foundational Impact: Act as a technical leader, mentoring founding engineers and setting the standard for engineering excellence as we scale from 100% weekly growth to global dominance.

Requirements

• Trading/Fintech Expertise: Significant experience building or scaling trading platforms, digital asset exchanges, or high-frequency financial infrastructure.
• Systems Intuition: A deep understanding of systems performance, memory management, and how to debug complex issues in high-load environments.
• Tech Stack Mastery: Proficiency in Node.js and Python, with experience managing large-scale data in MongoDB and architecting within AWS Serverless environments.
• Operational Grit: High ownership mindset with the ability to "grind" through hard problems. You thrive in startup environments where speed and correctness are prioritized equally.
• Geographic Focus: Must be based in Asia to ensure timezone alignment with their core execution team.

Benefits

• Direct Impact: Work at the center of the "execution path" in one of the fastest-growing startups in the prediction market space.
• Elite Backing: Join a team vetted by the industry’s most selective accelerators and investors.
• Equity & Upside: Competitive compensation package including significant equity in a high-growth venture.
• Founding Culture: Help shape the culture and technical direction of a company growing 100% week-over-week.
• Challenging Problems: Solve genuinely difficult engineering hurdles involving AI-driven markets and blockchain finality.

Interview Process

1. Stage 1: Initial Interview with Founder/CEO.
2. Stage 2: Technical Take-Home Test (Role-specific challenge).
3. Stage 3: Deep-Dive Technical Interview with the engineering team.
4. Stage 4: Final Wrap-up Interview and Offer Discussion.