Remote Founding Backend Engineer (Platform) - Crypto Trading

Founding Backend Engineer (Platform) — Crypto Trading

Remote | $225-300K base + meaningful equity

Were working with a small, highly experienced crypto team building a mobile-first trading platform for advanced, high-volume traders.

This is a true founding engineering seat. Youll be one of three founding engineers and will own the core backend platform outside of money movement, taking the architecture from 01 and building systems designed to handle large data volumes, real-time market activity, and sudden traffic spikes.

What youll build

- Integrate market, pricing, wallet, and blockchain data from third-party APIs into a reliable backend

- Build in-house Solana and/or EVM blockchain indexing infrastructure

- Build WebSocket fanout for live prices, positions, and market data

- Design high-performance, cost-efficient data serving and caching using PostgreSQL and AWS/GCP

- Lead backend architecture and platform feature development alongside the founder and product lead

What were looking for

- Approximately 6–12 years of backend engineering experience; 8–12 is ideal

- 2–3+ years of recent crypto experience

- Experience building backend systems for a crypto exchange, DEX, wallet, brokerage, trading terminal, or similarly demanding product

- Strong production expertise in Rust or Go

- Hands-on experience indexing Solana or EVM on-chain data

- Experience with WebSockets / real-time data at scale

- PostgreSQL and AWS or GCP

- Strong 01 ownership and comfort working in a very small, highly autonomous engineering team

Experience with high-usage consumer trading products is a major plus.

Compensation: $225K–$300K base + approximately 1.5%–2% equity for strong candidates
Location: Fully remote across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, South Korea, and Singapore. NA/EU time zones preferred.
Visa: Candidates must already be legally eligible to work from their location; no visa sponsorship.