What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer - Crypto Start-Up position at HireTo by Kuvaka?
About Our Client
Our client makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. They enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. about our mission, culture, and hiring process.
What we're looking for?
We need someone with 2-5 years of professional (non-internship) experience as a backend engineer, preferably in the data engineering or crypto/finance domain. You should be comfortable designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems, ideally within high-growth or early-stage environments, and have a track record of driving business impact. Bonus points if you have strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS.
What You'll Do
Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, system design, distributed systems) often associated with a CS degree
Hard Skills
Able to overlap with core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT / 12 - 3 PM EST.
Our client makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. They enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. about our mission, culture, and hiring process.
What we're looking for?
We need someone with 2-5 years of professional (non-internship) experience as a backend engineer, preferably in the data engineering or crypto/finance domain. You should be comfortable designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems, ideally within high-growth or early-stage environments, and have a track record of driving business impact. Bonus points if you have strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS.
What You'll Do
- Build new features, products, integrations, and back-end services
- Design scalable systems to support millions of users
- Own and deliver top-level product and engineering objectives
- Collaborate with team members across the company
- Build new blockchain and exchange integrations and enrich blockchain data with DeFi categorization as well as exchange data with exchange-specific nuances
- Influence the product roadmap through your technical and domain expertise
- Knowledge or Expertise in Crypto
- Experience in high- growth or early- stage environments.
- Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems.
- Experience building blockchain and exchange integrations.
- Experience enriching blockchain data with DeFi categorization.
- Experience with exchange data with exchange- specific nuances.
Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, system design, distributed systems) often associated with a CS degree
Hard Skills
- Deep knowledge of backend technologies (databases, orchestrators, messaging systems, data pipelines).
- Strong fundamentals with GCP or AWS cloud platform.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Experience with Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ, Temporal.
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty.
Able to overlap with core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT / 12 - 3 PM EST.
Salary : $146,000 - $175,000
