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# Staff Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Superstate Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Fault Tolerance, PostgreSQL, Blockchain, SQL Databases, Tokenization, TypeScript, Web Services, Pulumi, Backend, Build Management, Amazon Relational Database Service, Information Technology, Cloudflare, AWS Fargate, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/a4a3ea92-3aaa-4a1d-98cc-c009c311f518/staff-backend-engineer

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
 * 9+ years of professional engineering experience
 * Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and 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 skills with a strong analytical mindset

Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

 * Pulumi or Terraform
 * AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave
 * Cloudflare
 * Postgres
 * Docker
 * Typescript
 * Solana Programs
 * Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges
 * Solidity or Yul
 * Foundry

## Description

Job Description Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.
As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. 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 our partner custodians
 * Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent
 * Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts
 * Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
 * Teach and mentor other engineers


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