Principal Backend Engineer

At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, you'll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets.

About Paradigm

• Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi.
• We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy.
• We've built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month.
• We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry!
• We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Digital Currency Group, Genesis Trading, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.

The role

As a core member of our backend team, you will build and maintain major features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with product and engineering disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time on cross-functional self-contained feature teams focused on delivering value to the customer, while other projects will be more internally focused on integrations, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems
• Design and develop robust solutions for trade negotiation and execution, real-time market data, chat messaging, authentication, and security
• Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation
• Drive technology choices for the backend code base such as languages, frameworks, providers, and partners
• Support leadership in high-level technology investment decisions (build vs. buy, technical debt, etc.) through well-articulated, factual proposals
• Champion quality of our solutions and lead efforts to measure and improve it along dimensions such as test coverage, security, and customer satisfaction
• Drive the culture of metrics-driven delivery on established priorities in full partnership with Product, Program, and Engineering Management
• Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams
• Lead and participate in iterative, self-contained, cross-functional, customer-facing teams according to the release plan
• Ensure that technical expertise is appropriately distributed throughout the backend team via documentation, information sharing sessions, and project experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team
• Team-building and technical leadership experience
• Experience shipping large-scale projects and complex systems
• Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems
• Familiarity with WebSocket architecture and implementation
• B.S. in Computer Science or a related field (M.S. a plus)

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of Python/Django, Go, Rust
• Experience working with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes

Compensation: $198,300-$297,500 USD Annually