Key skills
GraphQLGRPCMicroservicesPostgresRustWeb3gRPCPostgreSQLBlockchainCaching
About this role
Role Overview
- Designing and owning core backend architecture in Rust (async-first)
- Defining service boundaries, data ownership, and evolution strategy
- Designing scalable APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) for mobile and web clients
- Modeling and operating PostgreSQL as a long-term source of truth
- Architecting real-time systems (feeds, messaging, event-driven workflows)
- Making tradeoffs around consistency, latency, and scalability
- Working with DevOps while retaining backend architectural authority
- Reviewing critical code paths and preventing premature complexity
- Helping shape the backend team as the company grows
Requirements
- 7-12 years of software engineering experience (preferably at early-stage startups or high-growth platforms)
- 4+ years of experience working in Rust in production environments, ideally on scalable web or blockchain-native backends
- Strong experience designing modern, scalable backend architectures from scratch — including authentication, real-time messaging, microservices, APIs, caching, and database design
- Proficiency with Rust frameworks like Actix, Axum, Tokio, or Rocket
- Experience with WebAssembly, gRPC, or GraphQL is a plus
- Passion for decentralization, crypto, Web3, and building products that empower users
- Comfortable working without product managers, defining scope, and leading engineering direction
- Bonus: experience with blockchain integration, tokenomics, or building in no-fee marketplaces
Tech Stack
- GraphQL
- GRPC
- Microservices
- Postgres
- Rust
- Web3
Benefits
- Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
- Deferred salary until funding is secured
- All current team members are working on a deferred compensation basis