Lead Backend Engineer

Lead Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems / Blockchain
Показать контакты

LEAD BACKEND ENGINEER – DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS / BLOCKCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE
🌍 Remote | 💰 Up to $150k (paid in stablecoins)

Saxon is working with one of our portfolio companies to hire a Lead Backend Engineer to help architect and build next-generation financial infrastructure on the Canton Network.

This is a senior technical role focused on designing and building distributed backend systems that power complex financial workflows, token mechanics, and on-chain economic systems.

The platform is being developed as a high-performance distributed application built around Canton Network infrastructure and DAML-based workflows, designed to enable advanced coordination between participants across shared financial systems.

You will play a key role in defining the technical architecture, building core backend services, and ensuring the platform scales reliably as the product evolves.

This is not a standard Web3 smart contract role. The work sits at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, financial infrastructure, and modern blockchain networks.




ABOUT THE ROLE
The Lead Backend Engineer will take ownership of core backend architecture and system design. You will work closely with product teams, frontend engineers, and infrastructure partners to design and implement backend services that support complex multi-party financial workflows.

The role requires strong systems thinking and the ability to design reliable backend architecture for distributed environments.

You will also be responsible for reviewing contractor contributions, maintaining engineering standards across the codebase, and ensuring long-term maintainability of the platform.

Because the product involves financial workflows and distributed transaction coordination, the backend architecture needs to balance performance, correctness, and security.

The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys designing systems rather than just implementing features, and who is comfortable working in early-stage environments where engineering decisions have long-term impact.




WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
Distributed Backend Systems

Design and implement backend services responsible for transaction orchestration, allocation logic, and distributed workflow execution across network participants.

Financial Logic & Reward Systems

Build systems responsible for reward distribution, economic logic, and financial allocation models that operate across distributed infrastructure.

Vault & Asset Logic

Design services that manage asset flows, accounting logic, and token-related system behaviour.

Blockchain Integration

Develop backend components that interact with Canton Network infrastructure and DAML-based workflows.

Off-Chain Services

Build and maintain services that coordinate off-chain application logic with on-chain or distributed network state.

System Architecture

Define architectural patterns that support scalability, maintainability, and high reliability across the application stack.

Engineering Standards

Review external developer contributions and ensure code quality, documentation, and architectural consistency.

Technical Ownership

Act as a key technical voice in the engineering team, helping guide architecture decisions and technical direction.




TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT
The engineering stack combines modern backend development with distributed application architecture.

Technologies may include:

* Go


* Rust


* TypeScript


* Python


* JVM languages (Scala, Java, Kotlin)


* Functional programming paradigms


* Distributed system architecture


* DAML (Digital Asset Modeling Language)


* Canton Network infrastructure


* Smart contract and blockchain integrations