Senior Backend Engineer - Hyperliquid ecosystem
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JobgetherFintech, DeFi
Work remotely from Europe or the USA., Overlap with EST working hours required.Full-TimeSenior
Salary$150,000–$200,000 USD per year for a full-time permanent position, plus equity and benefits.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- GraphQLPostgreSQLKafkaTypeScriptClickhouseRedisDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, ideally with strong production experience in TypeScript.
- Proven experience designing and operating real-time systems using WebSockets, event streaming, pub/sub, or similar technologies.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis; experience with ClickHouse or another columnar database is highly valued.
- Demonstrated experience operating highly available services at significant scale.
- Strong understanding of trading concepts, including orders, fills, order books, positions, and execution.
- Experience designing APIs for latency-sensitive, high-throughput applications and clients.
- Excellent debugging and performance optimization skills, including experience diagnosing slow queries, memory leaks, and production bottlenecks.
- Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and integration patterns.
- Familiarity with EVM-based systems, DeFi, or on-chain data is advantageous.
- Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming technologies is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Own key architecture and technical decisions across backend systems, ensuring they remain scalable, reliable, and performant.
- Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.
- Design, develop, and maintain API infrastructure, including GraphQL and WebSockets, for web and mobile clients.
- Work extensively with PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and similar technologies to support high-volume trading data.
- Optimize queries, caching strategies, schemas, and data access patterns as usage and data volumes grow.
- Instrument services with appropriate metrics, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations.
- Investigate and resolve latency, memory, performance, and reliability issues under demanding production workloads.
- Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver analytical and real-time data through robust APIs.
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