Backend & Platform Engineer — FinOps, IAM & Blockchain

Full time
· Lead
· Remote
· United States and Canada (NYC preferred)

Go Rust

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is the "Robinhood for DeFi" — an iOS/Android app to trade cryptocurrencies on-chain. You'll own critical systems: identity and access, funds movement and ledgering, and the blockchain infrastructure that powers on-chain trading.

• Design, build, and operate Identity & Access Management services: authentication flows, sessions, device trust; authorization and entitlements; MFA and key management
• Own financial operations systems: transfers and payments orchestration, ledgering and reconciliation, limits, risk controls, transactional correctness
• Build and maintain blockchain infrastructure: node and RPC management; transaction submission, monitoring, and retry logic; indexing and streaming of on-chain data
• Define and uphold reliability and observability standards (SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, incident management)
• Lead large, cross-functional technical projects from design through rollout
• Mentor and guide other engineers; contribute to engineering standards and design reviews
• 5–12+ years of backend / product / platform engineering, including high-scale, high-availability systems in fintech, crypto, or similar domains
• Deep expertise in at least one of: identity & access / security engineering; financial systems / ledgering / payments; blockchain infrastructure / on-chain data
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems (data stores, queues, streaming, background workers)
• Track record driving architecture decisions through implementation and adoption
• Nice to have:
  Go, Rust, Solana; experience with crypto wallets/exchanges or onchain protocols (DeFi, L2s, ZK)