Staff Backend Engineer
MLabs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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About the role
- Owning and building business-critical backend systems that power high-throughput, real-time crypto trading
- Designing and building low-latency trading infrastructure
- Developing wallet and execution systems that perform under extreme volatility
- Working on AI-driven intelligence layers that continuously improve outcomes
- Shipping production systems with a strong bias toward correctness, resilience, and speed
- Using AI tooling aggressively as a force multiplier across development and architecture
Requirements
- Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, complex systems
- Proven ability to lead work end-to-end: problem definition → architecture → production
- Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments
- Direct experience building or operating crypto wallets, trading platforms, or execution systems
- Deep understanding of real-world market behaviour, volatility, and scale
- Strong intuition for how trading systems behave under stress
- Strong production experience with: Golang, Node.js, TypeScript
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
- Experience building high-throughput backend services
- Actively uses AI tools in development and iteration (must-have)
- Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response
- Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
- Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping
Benefits
- Equity: initial stock grant of ~1% of the company, currently valued at approximately $230,000
- Everyone on the Senpi team is eligible for regular salary increases and bonuses based on achieving revenue targets — the entire team is usage + revenue focused
- Token upside: pro-rata participation in Senpi’s token launch, planned for 2026
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Hard Skills & Tools
GolangNode.jsTypeScriptbackend systemslow-latency trading infrastructurecrypto walletstrading platformsexecution systemsdistributed systemshigh-throughput backend services
Soft Skills
leadershipproblem definitiontechnical decision-makingintuitive understanding of market behavioroutcome-focused approachresiliencecorrectnesspragmatismadaptabilitycommunication