Senior Backend Engineer (Web3)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Web3): Building and optimizing a core trading engine and real-time market infrastructure for a decentralized exchange with an accent on throughput, latency, and high-concurrency. Focus on designing systems for 24/7 uptime, horizontal scalability, and architectural evolution as the platform adds new asset classes.

Location: Hybrid (New York, NY)

Salary: $210,000 – $300,000

Company

hirify.global is building state-of-the-art decentralized technologies to redefine global financial markets.

What you will do

• Contribute to the core trading engine, optimizing for throughput, latency, and correctness under high-concurrency.
• Own real-time market infrastructure and build pipelines to process and distribute order book updates and market events.
• Design systems for 24/7 uptime, ensuring seamless upgradeability, horizontal scalability, and zero-downtime deploys.
• Shape the platform's technical architecture to support scaling and the addition of new asset classes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working as a full-time developer.
• Strong understanding of CS fundamentals with the ability to write secure and efficient high-quality code.
• Experience building or integrating with trading systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures.
• Strong debugging capabilities and the ability to master new technologies quickly.

Nice to have

• Experience or interest in decentralized finance (DeFi).