SECTION I · THE BRIEF
Brief #23851Updated 12 NOV 2024NEW YORK CITY, NYLeverSOFTWARE COMPANIES
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Staff Backend Engineer

Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.

Location
New York City, NY
Company size
10–50
Posted
1y ago
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Staff Backend Engineer - Superstate

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Job Title
Staff Backend Engineer
Job Location
New York City
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
  • What you'll bring to the team
  • 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
  • Benefits & Perks
  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
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    Where this role is based

    New York City, NY

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    Superstate Headquarters Location

    San Francisco, CA

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    Superstate Company Size

    Between 10 - 50 employees

    Superstate Founded Year

    2023

    Superstate Total Amount Raised

    $18,000,000

    Superstate Funding Rounds

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    • Series B

      $82,500,000 USD

    • Series A

      $14,000,000 USD

    • Series A

      $14,000,000 USD

    • Seed

      $4,000,000 USD

    • Seed

      $4,000,000 USD