Staff Backend Engineer (Social)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: (Not provided in the description)

Phantom is revolutionizing the way millions of people interact with the crypto ecosystem. Our self-custodial wallet offers a seamless, unified experience for managing accounts and tokens across Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon, empowering users with a single, convenient solution. By integrating cutting-edge security features and launching innovative tools for an enhanced personalized user experience, Phantom is able to provide a next-generation, safe and easy to use self-custodial wallet for everyone. This strategy has allowed Phantom to achieve significant milestones including surpassing 7 million MAU’s, reaching #1 in the Google play store finance category, and consistently trending as a Top 50 app across all categories, right next to X, PayPal, Coinbase, and ChatGPT.

Responsibilities

• Architect for Scalability & Performance: Build systems capable of handling millions of users, with a focus on high availability, low latency, and strong fault tolerance using AWS/K8s.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide direction on best practices, code quality, and process improvements; mentor other team members.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable backend solutions.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Contribute to infrastructure decisions (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging), ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient operations.
• Authentication & Security: Implement and maintain robust authentication, authorization, and security best practices within a highly regulated Crypto environment.
• New initiatives and products: Lead initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom, and to launch new complementary products or infrastructure.
• Interfacing with users: Interface directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom, supporting them and collecting feedback to inform the direction of the product.
• Team building: Work with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 6+ years full-time software engineering experience with some of the following technologies:
  • Backend Technologies: Expert-level proficiency in Node.js/NestJS, with a track record of building large-scale, high-performance services.
  • Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS/K8s.

Application Instructions

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