Founding Backend Engineer
Software Engineering · Full-time
Remote
USD 200k+ / year
About Arcade
We're the team behind PRJX, the #1 DEX on HyperEVM, which generated $5.4M revenue in year one with 2 full time people.
Now, we're pursuing the biggest opportunity in crypto.
The foundation of which is creating the best place to trade crypto (spot + perps) on your phone.
On top of that, we’re building a completely original social product with several novel mechanisms.
We’ll reveal more to promising candidates, but whatever you think it may be, think bigger.
Role
Staff+ level · $200,000+ · significant equity
Stack. TypeScript/Node · Express 5 · Postgres with Drizzle · pnpm monorepo · Awilix · Vitest · AWS (SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) · Solana via @solana/kit · market data via Alchemy, Mobula, etc . Rust and Go are a plus.
Details. Remote · NA/EU timezone ideal · Full-time · Primarily async
You're the first and only engineer in your domain. Your job is to take an original product vision and turn it into a robust system, holding the entire architecture and smallest details at once.
You will…
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Build the best trading system in crypto.
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Own the entire trading infrastructure.
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Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
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Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
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Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
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Scale the system to $100M daily volume.
You have…
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Owned the system of record for customer funds across ledger, settlement, and matching.
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Defined a financial system's consistency guarantees and operating limits.
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Migrated live financial data with zero downtime and zero loss.
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Operated a high-throughput system under adversarial conditions.
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Been the final authority and the last escalation.