Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer owns backend services, APIs, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tooling to enable scalable product delivery in fintech/crypto. Requires 7+ years backend experience, Golang proficiency, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure expertise.
About the job
The Work
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power core product features (transactions, wallet management, DeFi integrations, user accounts)
- Own and evolve the infrastructure layer — CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code
- Build and operate scalable, reliable systems on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Develop high-quality, performant, modern, clean and readable code within tight deadlines
- Develop internal tooling and platform primitives that accelerate the product engineering team
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and fast incident response
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and frontend engineers to deliver end-to-end features
- Contribute to architecture decisions, technical documentation, and engineering standards as the team grows
- Own the development and maintenance of the project from ideation to deployment
Must Have
- 7+ years of experience in backend engineering, with meaningful exposure to infrastructure, platform, or DevOps/SRE work
- Strong proficiency in Golang (5+ years)
- Experience designing and building production APIs and microservices at scale
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for multi-service deployments
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, and systems-level debugging
- Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with blockchain systems or integrating blockchain-based backends into consumer-facing products
- Understanding of cryptographic primitives (public/private keys, hash functions, Merkle trees)
- Experience with the Cosmos SDK / CometBFT technology stack
- Background in fintech, payments, or wallet infrastructure
- Experience with performance optimization, load testing, and capacity planning
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Contributions to open-source projects
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cosmos Sdk, Cometbft
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