Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Startale Group is partnering with Sony and SBI to build the infrastructure for on-chain assets through their products like Strium and Startale App. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of backend systems, design APIs, build scalable data pipelines, and manage databases within their ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of backend architecture and implementation across multiple products within the Startale ecosystem
- Design, build, and maintain scalable production APIs and backend services used by customer-facing applications
- Build and operate high-performance distributed systems capable of serving large user bases and handling significant production traffic reliably
- Design backend systems with strong focus on scalability, fault tolerance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Build and maintain data pipelines, background workers, asynchronous processing systems, and event-driven architectures
- Build and maintain blockchain integrations and indexing systems that ingest, process, and serve on-chain data to internal services and user-facing applications
- Design efficient database schemas, optimize complex queries, and ensure long-term scalability of data storage systems
- Work across both Web2 and Web3 backend infrastructure, integrating traditional backend systems with blockchain protocols and decentralized infrastructure
- Diagnose and solve complex production issues, performance bottlenecks, reliability problems, and scaling challenges
- Build systems with strong observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling
- Continuously improve backend architecture, deployment pipelines, system reliability, and engineering practices
- Move quickly, make sound technical decisions independently, and take ownership of delivering production-ready systems
Skills
- Extensive experience building and operating production backend systems in modern engineering environments
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern backend frameworks (NestJS, Fastify, Express, or similar)
- Strong understanding of backend architecture, API design, service-oriented architecture, and distributed systems design
- Ability to independently design and deliver complex backend systems with minimal oversight
- Proven track record building and operating backend systems serving large numbers of users in production environments
- Experience designing systems that operate reliably under high traffic, heavy workloads, and demanding production conditions
- Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability bottlenecks, concurrency, fault tolerance, and infrastructure reliability
- Experience operating systems where uptime, consistency, and reliability directly impact end users
- Strong operational mindset and experience handling production incidents and scaling challenges in live systems
- Deep expertise with PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and production database management
- Experience building systems that process large amounts of structured or event-driven data
- Strong understanding of observability, logging, monitoring, and service health management
- Experience building backend systems for modern Web2 applications
- Experience integrating with blockchain infrastructure, node APIs, smart contracts, or decentralized protocols
- Familiarity with blockchain indexing systems, event processing pipelines, or other on-chain data infrastructure
- Good understanding of wallet architecture, transaction lifecycle, signing flows, and blockchain data models
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols and blockchain-based financial applications, either as a developer or an advanced user
- Experience building backend services in Go
- Experience with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems
- Experience with blockchain indexing frameworks such as The Graph, Subsquid, or custom indexers
- Experience deploying and operating services using Docker and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Contributions to open-source backend, infrastructure, or blockchain tooling projects
- Strong understanding of the DeFi ecosystem and hands-on familiarity with products such as decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, staking systems, bridges, or other on-chain financial infrastructure
- Experience building or integrating backend systems that interact with DeFi protocols
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Ownership opportunities
- A direct role in shaping the future of Web3 products
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