Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Money Movement)

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and evolve backend services and APIs that connect Phantom Cash to blockchains.
• Balance reliability, quality, and speed in client-server architecture and blockchain protocols.
• Communicate clearly across teams, document rigorously, and mentor to elevate engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Pragmatic engineering mindset focused on results and user impact.
• Proactive and outcome-oriented: anticipates problems and pushes features to completion.
• Strong communicator and pragmatic problem solver.
• Node.js / NestJS at scale; event-driven design (queues, retries, idempotency).
• REST API architecture: versioning, pagination, error models, authentication, rate-limiting.
• Full-stack awareness: understands trade-offs of state management and latency budgets.
• Distributed-systems fundamentals: concurrency, ordering, retries, data consistency.

Nice to Have

• Kubernetes + AWS ops; CI/CD; observability; on-call ownership.
• Deep interest in crypto: keeps up with ecosystem changes, wallets, protocols, and security norms.
• Previous hands-on experience in crypto or fintech.
• Smart-contract and protocol understanding: knows how on-chain programs interact with off-chain services.
• Blockchain integration experience — Solana preferred, EVM acceptable.
• Has shipped high-quality products in mature, high-bar engineering organizations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered.
• Stipend for remote set-up.
• Flexible hours and supportive remote environment.
• Unlimited vacation.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Monthly wellness benefit.
• Weekly meal benefit.
• Global off-sites.