Staff Backend Engineer, Aave App

About the Role:

• We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to build the backend infrastructure behind Aave App, a consumer savings app that makes onchain financial products simple, secure, and intuitive.
• The role focuses on the systems between blockchain protocols and the consumer experiences built around them.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate backend services for Aave App across onboarding, funding, savings, withdrawals, portfolio data, and customer communications.
• Build transaction-orchestration and indexing services that safely prepare, submit, monitor, and reconcile onchain activity across its full lifecycle.
• Integrate with smart contracts, RPC providers, account infrastructure, payment partners, and other external services.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems.
• Strong backend programming skills, production experience with Rust is highly desirable.
• Experience building distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive systems with clear reliability and performance requirements.

Why Aave Labs:

• We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.
• We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship; no detail is too small.
• We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.