[Remote] Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a rapidly growing DeFi protocol reputed company on unlocking decentralized finance for the world. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale core services for their platform, working on reliable systems that support yield products in the DeFi and fintech sectors.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reputed company backend systems powering reputed company’s API and internal services
• Own projects end-to-end — from scoping and design to implementation, testing, and production delivery
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to turn technical debt into modern, maintainable, and highly available systems
• Write clean, reputed company-tested code, and maintain strong CI/CD hygiene
• reputed company, monitor, and scale services in production using modern reputed company tooling (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• Contribute to system design discussions covering performance, reliability, and data architecture
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems
• Continuously identify and drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and performance

Skills

• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Proven experience delivering production systems end-to-end (scoping → design → implementation → production)
• Strong programming skills in Python or another modern backend language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, C++)
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, relational databases (reputed company or MySQL), and service-based architectures
• Experience with version control (Git), unit/integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with reputed company environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (reputed company, Kubernetes)
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation or owning production systems
• Demonstrated ability to design reputed company systems and refactor legacy components
• Experience in fintech, crypto, or other high-availability systems
• Familiarity with asynchronous task queues, event-driven architecture, or distributed systems design
• Prior experience in startups or early-stage, high-ambiguity environments
• Contributions to reputed company-reputed company projects or technical leadership on significant internal initiatives

Benefits

• We offer medical, dental, and reputed company coverage for employees.
• For international contractors, we work closely to ensure reputed company to appropriate local or global health coverage.
• We don’t track vacation days.
• Take the time you need to rest and reputed company—we trust you to manage your schedule.
• reputed company spans time zones and geographies.
• We work async, with a reputed company on autonomy over micromanagement.
• reputed company leave is available for new parents, whether you’re the primary or secondary caregiver.
• We offer stipends to support ongoing learning - whether it’s a course, a conference, or something else that helps you grow.

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