Backend Engineer

MLabs

Backend Engineer optimizing decentralized trading and pricing systems for the largest perpetual exchange. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to enhance infrastructure and liquidity.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $320,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoGRPCPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop the Entity Service API: Build and maintain a core central configuration plane used to manage assets, mappings, market hours, data providers, smart contract parameters, algorithm parameters, and more.
Build the Entity Service UI: Deliver an internal UI allowing team members to propose changes, review configurations, and leave comments, backed by robust Access Control Lists (ACL) and user management.
Architect a Low-Latency Pricing System: Assist in designing and implementing a highly reliable, dynamic pricing engine capable of pricing every incoming transaction in real time to optimize liquidity attraction.
Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with quants, infra, data, and backend engineers to establish a centralized pricing plane reflecting precise real-dollar values across every part of the system.
Propose and Own Initiatives: Take stock of system needs, evaluate what delivers the most value, and propose independent workflows and paths forward.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Golang Expertise: Strong experience as a Go engineer with a deep understanding of how to leverage AI tools effectively in the development process while maintaining rigorous validation criteria.
Data & Schema Design: Deep expertise with database schema design, evolution, and iteration.
Financial Domain Knowledge: Direct experience with trading systems and a strong understanding of financial concepts, instruments, and market mechanics.
Modern Tech Stack: Hands-on experience with Postgres, NATS, Redpanda, gRPC, REST APIs, and WebSockets.
Security-Minded: A proactive approach to identifying and decreasing security attack vectors across the backend ecosystem.
AI Power User: An engineer who utilizes AI effectively to accelerate workflows, validates all outputs critically, and implements strict technical guardrails rather than relying on unverified generation.
Solution-Oriented: Focused on enabling internal teams and engineers to move as fast as possible by addressing requests and unblocking technical dependencies.
Humble & Adaptive: A strong willingness to learn from quants, operations, and cross-functional engineering teams, maintaining flexibility without being attached to rigid legacy methods.
Mission-Driven & Collaborative: A team-first competitor focused on overall organizational success, execution, and collective goals.
Disagree and Commit: Open to voicing proposals and participating in rigorous debate, with a proven ability to fully commit to and execute decisions 100% once a path is finalized.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive base salary.
Equity ownership options.
Token incentives aligned with protocol growth.
Opportunity to work at the forefront of DeFi and decentralized real-world asset (RWA) trading.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Golangdatabase schema designAI toolslow-latency pricing systemdynamic pricing engineAccess Control ListsREST APIsgRPCWebSocketssecurity attack vectors

Soft Skills

solution-orientedhumbleadaptivecollaborativemission-drivendisagree and commit