Senior Backend Engineer

Location

New York

Full time

Remote

Engineering

• $160K – $200K

Blockworks is an information platform that sits at the center of the crypto industry. We transform raw, complex data and facts into actionable research, trusted news, alpha-driven insights, and world-class events. The result is transparency and confidence. We enable investors, operators, and institutions to see past the noise, make better decisions, and drive the industry forward.

Software engineering is your passion, and you have a keen focus on backend and API development. You are a player‑coach and a natural leader who understands the technical and human elements that go into great software design. You have a results‑oriented attitude and a passion for delivering flawless releases and developing digital product pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). You have a proven track record of facilitating engineering teams to increase productivity and quality.

You're excited about the possibility of being on the ground floor of the design and development of backend data strategies. You bring a passion for designing and maintaining scalable API services that handle large amounts of data elegantly. You love moving quickly in a fast‑paced start‑up, but you also bring intentionality, sustainability, and scalability to your approach as an engineer.

As our Senior Backend Engineer on the data team, you'll be responsible for designing and building the backend systems and strategies that will power all of our data and analytics products. You'll work collaboratively with other members of the engineering team to design, develop, implement, and evolve our data strategies and approaches.

Every day will look a little different, but in general, you will do things like:

• Build and Ship: You'll be responsible for building our backend data structure and APIs for our core products, and on our Engineering team, we ship fast and often (but never at the expense of quality).

• Own the API: You'll be in charge of building, evolving, and maintaining our backend API layer that fuels our current and future crypto analytics products.

• Proactively Identify and Fix Issues: In partnership with the rest of the Data Engineering team, you'll constantly be on the lookout for stability and scalability issues.

• Engage in Product Development: You'll participate and bring technical leadership to all aspects of our product development life cycle.

• Scope and Spec Improvements: You'll be responsible for estimating the development scope and building specs for the implementation and rollout of system changes.

• Drive Operational Efficiency: You'll be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to improve workflows, reliably automate routine tasks, and identify and mitigate project risks.

• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  You'll work with other teams across Blockworks, including Research, Product, and Engineering, to lead initiatives and move forward with program collaborations.

Experimentation is frequent fortability with being uncomfortable is a must.

For this role, first and foremost, you must have significant knowledge of the crypto industry; interest in crypto is not enough, we’re looking for someone who considers themselves crypto native. You have a deep understanding of data principles and architecture that either came from a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or from intensive hands‑on work experience.

You have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong focus on backend development and API architecture using Type Script and Node.js or Go. You've got demonstrated experience building blazing‑fast API endpoints that can handle large amounts of data with over 1M requests per day.

You also bring significant experience maintaining and running API endpoints using serverless architecture, including deployment, configuration, and TTFB optimization. You bring proficiency in designing and optimizing relational databases, such as MySQL and Postgre

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