Backend Engineer

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL.
• Model data, evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL) and optimise for correctness and performance.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk, and security teams to ship end-to-end outcomes.

What Success Looks Like:

• Ramp up on our APIs, data flows and deployment practices; ship a safe, user-visible improvement.
• Own delivery of scoped features end to end; propose and land architecture improvements.
• Become a trusted owner of a key backend domain with a multi-quarter roadmap.

Competencies & Traits:

• Thrives in a fast-changing remote-first environment and picks up new context quickly.
• Strong bias for action, ownership mindset and first-principles problem-solving.
• Excellent written and async communication across time zones