Founding Senior Backend Engineer (3-Month Contract | Immediate Start)

Founding Senior Backend Engineer  (3-Month Contract | Immediate Start)

Location : Hyderabad, India (Hybrid preferred)

Contract : 3 months (with high potential to convert to full-time)

Start : Immediate

About the Role

We’re looking for a Founding Senior Backend Engineer to design and build our core wallet and trading infrastructure from the ground up.

You’ll own the backend architecture that powers our flagship crypto-fintech app  from wallet services and trade execution to yield strategies and AI-driven trading policies. You’ll work closely with mobile engineers (React Native / Flutter), product, and design to ship a platform that is secure, performant, and ready to scale from 0 → 1.

This is a high-ownership role where your decisions will define the technical foundation of the product.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and build core backend services for wallet management, balances, transactions, and accounting / ledgering.
• Design and implement trading infrastructure :
• Order routing and execution
• Integration with liquidity providers and exchanges
• Slippage, fees, and risk constraints
• Implement yield and trading strategies as robust, configurable services (DCA, yield products, automated rebalancing, etc.).
• Build AI-driven policy and execution layers :
• Define policy engines that can evaluate signals and constraints
• Safely trigger, simulate, and execute trades based on AI-driven or rules-based strategies
• Design secure APIs consumed by mobile and web clients.
• Own data persistence and performance : relational databases, caching layers, and event-driven flows.
• Ensure security, reliability, and observability :
• Logging, metrics, alerting
• Rate limiting, auth, and permissions
• High availability and resilience
• Collaborate closely with a global team (North America & India) across product, design, and mobile.
• Play a key role in architecture, technical roadmap, and product decisions as a founding engineer.

Requirements

Bonus Skills

Why This Role Matters

This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor as a founding backend engineer and shape the technical DNA of a next-generation crypto product.

You’ll :

If you love building secure, high-performance systems, enjoy thinking in terms of primitives and platforms rather than one-off features, and want to help power a product that could serve millions of users — this role is for you.

Interested?

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Let’s build something exceptional together.