Senior Backend Engineer - Hyperliquid ecosystem

Accountabilities

• Own key architecture and technical decisions across backend systems, ensuring they remain scalable, reliable, and performant.


• Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.


• Design, develop, and maintain API infrastructure, including GraphQL and WebSockets, for web and mobile clients.


• Work extensively with PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and similar technologies to support high-volume trading data.


• Optimize queries, caching strategies, schemas, and data access patterns as usage and data volumes grow.


• Instrument services with appropriate metrics, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations.


• Investigate and resolve latency, memory, performance, and reliability issues under demanding production workloads.


• Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver analytical and real-time data through robust APIs.


• Contribute to a fast-paced 0-to-1 development environment where engineers have meaningful ownership over what they build.

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, ideally with strong production experience in TypeScript.


• Proven experience designing and operating real-time systems using WebSockets, event streaming, pub/sub, or similar technologies.


• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis; experience with ClickHouse or another columnar database is highly valued.


• Demonstrated experience operating highly available services at significant scale.


• Strong understanding of trading concepts, including orders, fills, order books, positions, and execution.


• Experience designing APIs for latency-sensitive, high-throughput applications and clients.


• Excellent debugging and performance optimization skills, including experience diagnosing slow queries, memory leaks, and production bottlenecks.


• Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and integration patterns.


• Familiarity with EVM-based systems, DeFi, or on-chain data is advantageous.


• Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming technologies is a plus.


• Background in trading platforms, fintech, low-latency applications, or other performance-critical environments is a plus.


• Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly evolving environment.

• Salary: $150,000–$200,000 USD per year for a full-time permanent position, plus equity and benefits.


• Remote-first: Work remotely from Europe or the USA.


• Remote setup stipend: Budget for a laptop, peripherals, and other equipment needed to create your ideal workspace.


• Global collaboration: Multiple in-person team offsites and coworking opportunities around the world.


• Flexible vacation: Flexible time-off policy with genuine encouragement to disconnect and recharge.


• Learning & development: Dedicated budget to support continuous learning and professional growth.


• Permanent employment: Full-time, permanent contract with a remote working model.

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