Staff Backend Engineer

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. You'll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.

What you'll do

Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance

Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians

Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent

Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts

Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact

Teach and mentor other engineers

What you'll bring to the team

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

9+ years of professional engineering experience

Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS

Deep Rust experience

Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites

Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization

Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem

Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset

Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

Pulumi or Terraform

AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave

Cloudflare

Postgres

Docker

Typescript

Solana Programs

Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges

Solidity or Yul

Foundry

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation

Equity ownership

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.
Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.