Superstate

Staff Backend Engineer

Superstate  •  New York City, NY (Onsite)  •  21 days ago
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Job Description

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.
As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. You'll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.

What you'll do

  • Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance
  • Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians
  • Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent
  • Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts
  • Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
  • Teach and mentor other engineers

What you'll bring to the team

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Deep Rust experience
  • Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites
  • Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization
  • Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
  • Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset

Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

  • Pulumi or Terraform
  • AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave
  • Cloudflare
  • Postgres
  • Docker
  • Typescript
  • Solana Programs
  • Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges
  • Solidity or Yul
  • Foundry

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.
Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.
Superstate

About Superstate

Superstate is a financial technology firm reshaping public capital markets.

We connect financial assets with crypto capital markets to expand access, improve liquidity, and advance capital formation through on-chain public listings and tokenized investment products. Our offerings include Opening Bell, a platform for compliant on-chain equity listings; USTB, a tokenized fund backed by U.S. Treasuries; and USCC, a tokenized fund optimized for crypto basis exposure.

Our investment funds are currently exempt from registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in reliance on the private fund adviser exemption under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”). Information about Superstate can be found by visiting the SEC website www.adviserinfo.sec.gov and searching for our firm name. Neither the information nor any opinion expressed is to be construed as solicitation to buy or sell a security of personalized investment, tax, or legal advice.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
2023
Website
superstate.co
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