Staff Backend Engineer

Superstate is hiring a remote Staff Backend Engineer to build blockchain-integrated backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for tokenized investment products. Requires 9+ years, deep Rust, and AWS experience.

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

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

Remote work