Superstate
Staff Backend Engineer
- Location
- Remote
- Experience
- 9+ years
- Team
- Engineering
- Posted
- 1d ago
Quick summary
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.
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
Nice to have
- Pulumi or Terraform
- AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave
- Cloudflare
Perks
- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
Read the full description
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.