Principal Backend / Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Improve infra enabling trading, accounts, transactions, and portfolio automation.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and security across backend systems.
• Extend DevOps infra to CI/CD deployment automation, and monitoring.
• Champion best practices for code quality, design, testing.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive backend architecture.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience building backend systems in TS or Node.js.
• APIs, microservices, distributed systems, data stores, caching, messaging.
• SQL & NoSQL design, scaling, performance, observability.
• AWS, GCP, Azure and infrastructure as code.
• Authentication, authorization, data protection security.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

🎁 Benefits

• Legacy-defining vision for private wealth.
• Personalized wealth management with LLMs.
• Small team with outsized impact.
• Founders in the trenches with the team.
• Ownership: cash and equity compensation.
• Backing from top investors like a16z and Sam Altman.