Staff Backend Engineer

You'll be responsible for owning and building business-critical backend systems that power high-throughput, real-time crypto trading.

This includes:

• Designing and building low-latency trading infrastructure
• Developing wallet and execution systems that perform under extreme volatility
• Working on AI-driven intelligence layers that continuously improve outcomes
• Shipping production systems with a strong bias toward correctness, resilience, and speed
• Using AI tooling aggressively as a force multiplier across development and architecture

This is frontier-level backend engineering at the intersection of crypto, trading infrastructure, and applied AI.

Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Hands-on experience with crypto wallets, tokens, and/or trading systems

• Deep production experience with Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Deep familiarity with trading APIs, execution flows, and transaction lifecycles, * Seniority & Ownership

• Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, complex systems
• Proven ability to lead work end-to-end: problem definition architecture production
• Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments

• Crypto-Native Experience (Essential)

• Direct experience building or operating crypto wallets, trading platforms, or execution systems
• Deep understanding of real-world market behaviour, volatility, and scale
• Strong intuition for how trading systems behave under stress
• Crypto experience is essential. Product specifics can be learned - crypto fluency cannot.

• Technical Skills

• Strong production experience with:
• Golang
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Experience building high-throughput backend services
• Actively uses AI tools in development and iteration (must-have)

• Operating Excellence

• Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response
• Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping

• Equity: initial stock grant of ~1% of the company, currently valued at approximately $230,000
• Everyone on the Senpi team is eligible for regular salary increases and bonuses based on achieving revenue targets - the entire team is usage + revenue focused
• Token upside: pro-rata participation in Senpi's token launch, planned for 2026