Senior Backend/Infra Engineer - Hybrid

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Senior Backend/Infra Engineer - Hybrid position in San Francisco.

As an engineer, you'll play a critical role in building out our foundational infrastructure in a fast paced startup environment. This will involve researching, designing, and implementing novel engineering solutions related to hybrid onchain/offchain systems. You will ship a lot of code, with the potential to work on things like indexers, databases, smart contracts, cryptography, and APIs all operating at a global scale.

Our current technology stack spans the following tools and providers:

• Onchain: Solidity (deployed on Ethereum/EVM L2s) + Foundry
• Backend services: Typescript
• Frontend services: NextJS App Router + Tailwind + tRPC
• All backend & frontend services hosted on railway.app
• Database/PostgreSQL hosted on neon.tech

Requirements

For the Senior Backend/Infra Engineer role, we’re looking for the following experience and qualifications:

• Able to work from the office in San Francisco - mandatory
• Experience shipping production code in a language like Typescript, Rust, Python, Go, Solidity - mandatory
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of ownership
• Obsession with shipping code with a bias for self-reliance
• Past work experience spanning Web2 and Web3 systems
• Deep experience deploying, scaling, and monitoring production infrastructure such as web servers, APIs, databases - mandatory
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP - mandatory
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash or Python
• Extensive experience with security best practices and common pitfalls
• PostgreSQL wizard - mandatory

About You

• A solid understanding of engineering principles. You enjoy building and shipping quality, resilient, and dependable services.
• A sense of grit to dive into a problem and own the implementation of solutions.
• Possess excellent communication skills for effectively conveying your perspective, ideas, problems, and solutions.
• A strong sense of ownership and prioritization when navigating the ambiguity of an early-stage startup.
• A motivation for accelerating the adoption of digital ownership beyond the current limitations of public blockchains.

Benefits

• Founding equity grants
• Great salaries
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Annual offsites and conference travel stipends