Staff Backend Engineer

Join our close-knit, early-stage distributed team, where we tackle complex technical challenges and build transformative crypto products that give people peace of mind. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our backend architecture, scaling our systems, and driving high-impact engineering and product initiatives. You'll work cross-functionally to influence technical direction and mentor engineers, helping us build a world-class engineering team. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will: - Architect and scale backend systems to support millions of users and transactions. - Lead and drive critical technical projects, ensuring long-term scalability, performance, and reliability. - Design and optimize complex data processing pipelines, distributed systems, and APIs. - Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other teams to align technical execution with business objectives. - Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and best practices across the team. - Continuously improve system performance, observability, and maintainability.