Senior Software Engineer Technical Leadership Platform (Crypto)

Senior Software Engineer Technical Leadership Platform

Company

Cyclops

Conditions

6 days agoSenior Remote. USA, Argentina, or Brazil Remote Contract Backend Jobs by Cyclops

Skills

Ai Api Contract Aws Backend Crypto Custody Distributed Systems Docker Exchange Incident Management Kubernetes Microservices Node.Js Observability Payments Postgresql Queue Redis Reliability Rest Api Settlement Storage System Design Typescript Wallet

Candidate Availability

Remote · Argentina · Required Remote · Brazil · Required Remote · United States · Required Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will shape the technical foundation of a crypto payment platform through system design, reliability engineering, and long-term platform evolution. You will own complex backend work, identify architectural and scalability risks, lead technical relationships with partners, design failure-handling mechanisms, improve observability, validate integrations, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and documentation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend development experience
• Deep hands-on experience building and operating crypto infrastructure
• Experience with custody, wallets, exchanges, payments, or settlement systems
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js backend expertise
• Deep distributed system design experience
• Knowledge of microservices, service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, API contracts, queues, and asynchronous communication
• Production experience with incident response, debugging, API failures, and data issues
• Experience owning services from design through production support
• Excellent PostgreSQL knowledge and understanding of other storage types
• Experience with reliability, observability, and production incident investigation
• Daily use of AI coding tools and critical code review
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and evaluate trade-offs
• High agency and practical problem-solving ability
• Excellent written and verbal English communication

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core platform services
• Identify architectural risks and scalability limits
• Propose incremental improvement and migration paths
• Lead partner solution reviews and troubleshooting
• Document technical decisions and integration details
• Design retry, timeout, idempotency, degraded-mode, and fallback mechanisms
• Improve metrics, logs, tracing, and operational visibility
• Analyze production incidents
• Build proofs of concept and validate integrations
• Analyze vendor APIs and integration flows
• Implement complex backend components with TypeScript and Node.js
• Conduct code reviews and decompose complex problems
• Share knowledge through pairing and documentation

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule as an independent contractor
• Company-issued laptop
• Technology accessories
• Annual in-person full-team meetup

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