Career Renew is recruiting for a Staff Backend Engineer - Crypto, a fully remote role aimed at US-based candidates. The company is focused on building autonomous trading infrastructure and intelligence layers to enhance trading outcomes and is looking for a staff-level engineer with proven leadership in developing large-scale systems.
Responsibilities:
- Real-time, budget-aware mirror trading infrastructure on Hyperliquid and beyond
- High-throughput wallet and trading systems operating under extreme volatility
- AI-driven intelligence layers that continuously improve trading outcomes
- Production systems designed for correctness, resilience, and speed
- Developer workflows where AI is used aggressively as a force multiplier
Requirements:
- Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, business-critical systems
- Proven ability to lead work end-to-end: problem definition → architecture → implementation → production
- Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments
- Crypto-Native Experience (Essential)
- Hands-on experience with crypto wallets, tokens, and trading systems
- Deep familiarity with trading APIs, execution flows, and transaction lifecycles
- Strong intuition for how real crypto markets behave under volatility and scale
- Strong production experience with TypeScript
- Strong production experience with Node.js
- Strong production experience with Golang
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
- Experience building high-throughput backend services
- Actively uses AI as an accelerant in design, development, and iteration (must have)
- Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis
- Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
- Pragmatic, outcome-oriented approach to shipping