Staff Backend Engineer

MLabs

1d • Remote

About The Position

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a high-growth, venture-backed crypto company is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help build next-generation autonomous trading infrastructure.
This is a senior, ownership-heavy role working on real-time trading systems, wallets, and execution infrastructure operating under extreme market conditions. The client is highly responsive and only interviewing candidates who meet all criteria.
You’ll be responsible for owning and building business-critical backend systems that power high-throughput, real-time crypto trading.
This includes:
Designing and building low-latency trading infrastructure
Developing wallet and execution systems that perform under extreme volatility
Working on AI-driven intelligence layers that continuously improve outcomes
Shipping production systems with a strong bias toward correctness, resilience, and speed
Using AI tooling aggressively as a force multiplier across development and architecture
This is frontier-level backend engineering at the intersection of crypto, trading infrastructure, and applied AI.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with crypto wallets, tokens, and/or trading systems
• Deep production experience with Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Deep familiarity with trading APIs, execution flows, and transaction lifecycles
• Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, complex systems
• Proven ability to lead work end-to-end: problem definition → architecture → production
• Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments
• Direct experience building or operating crypto wallets, trading platforms, or execution systems
• Deep understanding of real-world market behaviour, volatility, and scale
• Strong intuition for how trading systems behave under stress
• Strong production experience with Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Experience building high-throughput backend services
• Actively uses AI tools in development and iteration (must-have)
• Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response
• Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping

Responsibilities

• Designing and building low-latency trading infrastructure
• Developing wallet and execution systems that perform under extreme volatility
• Working on AI-driven intelligence layers that continuously improve outcomes
• Shipping production systems with a strong bias toward correctness, resilience, and speed
• Using AI tooling aggressively as a force multiplier across development and architecture

Benefits

• Equity: initial stock grant of ~1% of the company, currently valued at approximately $230,000
• Everyone on the Senpi team is eligible for regular salary increases and bonuses based on achieving revenue targets — the entire team is usage + revenue focused
• Token upside: pro-rata participation in Senpi’s token launch, planned for 2026

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed