As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and maintain scalable backend services using TypeScript, ensuring high performance and reliability for a large user base, while collaborating with co-founders and leading a team.
About Trojan Trading
Trojan Trading is at the forefront of crypto trading technology. Trojan Trading is a non-custodial trading and data platform. It is a unified base of operations, a place where users retain custody of their funds, data is live and accurate, execution is nearly instant and accurately priced, charting is simple and powerful and where every market, no matter how new, is accessible. We've chosen to keep our team small, and bring together only the most exceptional talent in crypto.
Why Join Us?
At Trojan Trading, we’re pushing the boundaries of on-chain trading technology. Joining our team offers you the chance to work on products that already serve a large and active user base, collaborating with top-tier engineers in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Working at Trojan Trading means having fast paced releases with your work being live in the hands of tens of thousands of users as soon as it’s complete.
Role Overview
We’re seeking a Staff Backend Engineer with proven expertise in designing, building and owning scalable, high throughput and low latency microservices-based backends in TypeScript. Ideally, you will have experience doing so within the Solana ecosystem or broader blockchain space. The ideal candidate is a proactive and autonomous technical lead who thrives on tackling complex challenges and shares a passion for on-chain trading. You should have experience with system design/architecture, developing complex codebases sustainably with minimal technical debt, handling a large number of concurrent users with real-time data streaming, and directing a team to accomplish its goals and ship first-class products. As a Lead Backend Engineer you’ll convene directly with the co-founders and build new innovative features, bring on improvements to current products.
Key Responsibilities
- Project/Product Ownership: Leadership and oversight of Trojan Trading’s backend services while reporting directly to the technical co-founders.
- Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using TypeScript (Bun.js framework) to support trading functionality, tools/analytics for traders, third-party integrations, and more.
- System Availability/Reliability: Design scalable and fault-tolerant architectures, implement monitoring/alerting, and maintain disaster recovery protocols to ensure system availability.
- Performance Optimization: Ensure backend systems & database queries deliver top-tier speed for thousands of concurrent users without compromising on reliability.
- Code Quality: Uphold best practices by writing well-structured, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with frontend teams and users to align backend solutions with platform objectives.
- Problem Solving: Identify, debug, and resolve complex technical issues to maintain smooth platform operations.
Requirements
Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in Node.js/Bun.js and TypeScript with 7+ years of experience in backend development.
- Must have delivered a complex microservices-based backend serving web clients end-to-end.
- Experience serving a high number of concurrent users with large data-streaming requirements.
- Proficiency with building robust and optimized API endpoints and web sockets.
- Strong understanding of Postgres, including schema/query design and optimization for high-performance/high-reliability use cases.
Autonomy: Proven ability to work independently while driving projects to completion.
Team Collaboration:
- Strong communication skills to work effectively within a cross-functional team.
- Experience leading a mid-sized engineer team.
Pride: We look for people who take deep pride and responsibility in the products they build. Crypto moves at breakneck speed, and only the most driven, fast-moving teams succeed.
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience working on backend systems for crypto trading platforms, DeFi applications, or other data-heavy services.
- Passion or experience in on-chain trading; being a part-time trader on Solana is a plus.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and development tools for streamlined deployments.
What We Offer
- Remote Flexibility: Work from anywhere on your schedule.
- Challenging Projects: Solve complex problems with cutting-edge technology in the trading space.
- Impactful Role: Shape backend systems powering one of the largest trading platforms on the market and shaping the experience of tens of thousands of daily users.
- Collaborative Culture: Join a team that values innovation, efficiency, and collaboration.
Compensation/Culture
The overall market range for roles at Trojan Trading is typically $200k - $500k annually. This market range is based on total compensation. Trojan Trading has a culture that is built upon meritocracy, high-intensity output, and personal growth.
Trojan Trading Half Moon Bay, California, USA Office
Half Moon Bay, Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands, British
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