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  • Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency services and libraries in Rust and TypeScript
  • Manage the full lifecycle of on-chain wallets across blockchains - from derivation to ownership, at the scale of a global exchange
  • Build and maintain the systems that ensure liquidity for clients while maintaining strict compliance with regulatory requirements

Rust TypeScript Kafka Docker Kubernetes

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Global

  • Partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to identify growth opportunities and turn them into high-quality, data-driven engineering solutions.
  • Implement reusable services and components that power marketing campaigns, onboarding, KYC, and first-funding experiences across web and mobile.
  • Collaborate on distributed systems that handle large volumes of global traffic while maintaining high performance and reliability.

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. They aim to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. As a fully remote company, they have Krakenites in 70+ countries and are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products.

Global

  • Deliver backend services that coordinate fast, fault-tolerant cross-chain transactions across multiple blockchain ecosystems
  • Improve system reliability and resilience under adversarial conditions to strengthen protocol trust and uptime
  • Reduce transaction processing latency through optimizations in RPC usage and system performance

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). They have enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

$200,000–$250,000/yr
US

  • Design and build core systems for our new product from scratch
  • Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact directly with Solana's transaction and block building pipeline
  • Implement security at every layer, from transaction signing to user data protection

Jito builds the Market Layer of Solana, the infrastructure that powers real markets on-chain. They build foundational network infrastructure and are a small, profitable company with product-market fit where every team member drives significant technical decisions and shapes our product roadmap.

US

  • Develop and maintain infrastructure that powers digital asset custody, trading, staking, and settlement for enterprise financial institutions.
  • Contribute to virtual accounting layers, API integrations, and multi-tenant platform architectures with guidance from senior engineers.
  • Write clear, concise, tested code and participate in code reviews to improve engineering practices.

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. They are a diverse team of more than 600 members, united in building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

Europe

  • Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL, delivering reliable, low-latency user-facing experiences.
  • Model data, evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL) and optimise for correctness, performance and maintainability.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems: focusing on observability, incident response, reliability, and operational excellence.

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol. They secured $50 million to build an open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms and have over $10 billion in deposits, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending.

Europe

  • Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments using Helm, KEDA, and HPA for auto-scaling
  • Architect and optimize PostgreSQL databases with schema design, migrations via Drizzle ORM, and performance tuning
  • Build and maintain Docker containerization with multi-stage builds and container optimization strategies

Pragmatike is recruiting for a fast-growing, YC-backed API-first company that is revolutionizing meeting automation and recording infrastructure. They provide developers with powerful APIs for meeting bots, transcription, and video processing, serving businesses that need scalable meeting intelligence solutions.

Europe

  • Architect and own end‑to‑end delivery across web apps, APIs, and indexers to ship user‑visible impact quickly and safely.
  • Design a scalable API and SDK strategy with clear versioning and docs to enable hundreds of external integrators to build on Morpho.
  • Build high‑performance data pipelines over on‑chain events using intelligent caching and query optimization to keep UIs sub‑second.

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol. They recently secured $50 million to build an open lending network, experiencing explosive growth with over $10 billion in deposits.

Global

  • Architect the algorithms, execution strategies, and infrastructure that power solver competition, quote aggregation, and intent-ready execution workflows.
  • Lead deep code and design reviews, make high-impact architectural decisions, and uphold the highest engineering standards.
  • Work with product, research, and ecosystem partners to align Solver capabilities with the NEAR Intents roadmap.

Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world — connecting AI, services, and financial applications. With expertise in AI, cryptography, and decentralized finance, our team is redefining how intelligent agents interact across blockchain networks.

EU US LATAM

  • Own the technical direction and delivery for re-engagement and rewards systems.
  • Stay hands-on in the codebase, writing production-grade code and setting the bar for quality, reliability, and speed.
  • Partner with Product to scope and run experiments — referral optimization, geo-expansion, pricing mechanics, campaign infrastructure, and more.

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values that aims to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. As a fully remote company, they have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.

$100,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Design, develop, and maintain core cloud platform services including compute orchestration, resource management, multi-tenancy, and API gateway components using Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
  • Build and optimize RESTful/gRPC APIs and microservices that support cloud resource provisioning, lifecycle management, and monitoring on Bitdeer AI Cloud.
  • Develop scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that handle high-throughput workloads across multi-region deployments.

Bitdeer is a world-leading technology company for Bitcoin mining and AI cloud. They are committed to providing comprehensive Bitcoin mining solutions for its customers, designing industry-leading ASIC chips, and manufacturing mining rigs, with operations globally and a diversified 3 GW energy portfolio.

$145,000–$190,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build backend services supporting financial workflows and transaction processing.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design scalable system solutions.
  • Write maintainable and well-tested code using Java and modern JVM frameworks.

LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. Our team is backed by funding from leading VC's, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau and is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology.

Global

  • Design and implement a shared core layer used across desktop, mobile, and backend
  • Contribute to architecture decisions around CRDT and distributed systems
  • Collaborate closely with frontend, mobile, and backend engineers to integrate Rust components

Termius is redefining how engineers interact with remote systems. Millions of engineers and thousands of companies rely on Termius worldwide. As a leading cross-platform SSH client, their mission is to boost productivity and foster collaboration by rebuilding the Terminal for the modern era.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and implement scalable Go services that support high-throughput financial workloads
  • Build and maintain APIs that integrate across multiple internal services and external financial systems
  • Develop backend systems that handle large datasets with strong performance and reliability requirements

Polygon Labs is building and operating infrastructure to move money instantly, reliably, and at internet scale, with the mission to move all money onchain. Polygon Labs is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

  • Be on the front lines, building capabilities into existing back-office systems to reduce manual work and consolidate disparate systems.
  • Create net-new backend services and capabilities, integrate with and build upon a wide range of existing backend and frontend services.
  • Collaborate directly with Global Operations teams to identify critical pain points, prioritize initiatives, translate operational needs into technical requirements.

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto, providing integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. They are a remote friendly, global team, but provide the option of working in-office.

Global

  • Design, develop, and maintain high-quality applications using React
  • Significantly influence technical decisions, contribute to technical strategy discussions, and shape product/domain decisions with an expert understanding of engineering best practices
  • Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide constructive feedback

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values and is on a mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. As a fully remote company, Kraken has Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.

5w PTO

  • Drive technical direction across integration platform + delivery work, with clear trade-offs and pragmatic sequencing.
  • Define and raise engineering quality standards for integrations (testing expectations, reliability/monitoring, security, logging), including for work done by external developers/partners.
  • Lead initiatives that enable scale, like reusable patterns/tooling (e.g., IDK) and frameworks that reduce one-off implementation work.

Pleo builds spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike - with a vision to help all businesses ‘go beyond’. They are a driven, progressive, and kind bunch of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, all committed to delivering the future of business spending, together.

Europe

  • You own the frontend code and work closely with the founder and a senior product designer and as well as our early users to integrate components and monitor and iterate UX to perfection.
  • From designing Postgres schemas and RLS (Supabase), to writing edge APIs to supporting our backend workers, you shape much of the core infra.
  • You help enable cutting-edge digital asset UX leveraging WebAuthn, integrate our smart contracts, own blockchain indexer and work with our fintech partners.

Contro is a VC-backed startup leveraging fair markets to empower people and agents. They are creating a transformative debating product that rewards sharing reasoning and insight on a wide range of topics.

$180,000–$225,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Work alongside full-stack engineers to ensure product functionality is scalable and reliable.
  • Partner closely with product and engineering teammates to design, build, and operate backend systems.
  • Take ownership of backend and systems aspects of product features from early design through production and scale.

Vesta is rebuilding the mortgage LOS (Loan Origination System) from the ground up with an AI-augmented platform. They have raised $55M from top tier investors and value humility, empathy, self-awareness, and an orientation towards action on their team.