Staff Backend Engineer

At Superstate we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. As an engineer you'll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient. ☑️ What you'll do -Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance -Build out APIs and integrations with partner custodians -Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent -Lead, build and test infrastructure-as-code efforts -Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact -Teach and mentor other engineers ☑️ Requirements -Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field -9+ years of professional engineering experience -Expertise in building fault-tolerant, high-performance, highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS -Deep Rust experience -Familiarity building web services for highly-trafficked websites -Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization -Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem -Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving with a strong analytical mindset -Stack: Pulumi/Terraform, AWS (Fargate, RDS, CloudFront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave), Cloudflare, Postgres, Docker, TypeScript, Solana Programs, L2 blockchains, Solidity or Yul, Foundry