Senior Backend Engineer
Ellipsis Labsover 2 years ago
Base Salary
$170k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable production services supporting thousands of queries per second and future order-of-magnitude growth.
- Implement systems to monitor performance at the microsecond and nanosecond levels.
- Drive engineering initiatives such as real-time data indexing at scale from specification and architecture through implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems, preferably in Rust, C++, C, or Go.
- At least 3 years of experience with Unix systems.
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on relevant business context.
- Demonstrated high agency, willingness to explore unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude.
- Passion for decentralized finance.
- Preferred experience with blockchain technology, specifically Solana.
- Preferred experience in quant trading or fintech.
- Proficiency in Rust is preferred.
About Ellipsis Labs
Ellipsis Labs builds and operates decentralized trading protocols on Solana for crypto traders and liquidity providers, including Phoenix Perpetuals (perpetual futures), Phoenix Legacy (an orderbook spot exchange), and the SolFi automated market maker. The New York–based, privately held company is venture-backed and raised a Series A in 2024. Its platforms generate revenue from protocol and trading fees and proprietary liquidity provision, and have facilitated more than $285B in cumulative trading volume across Solana markets.