Full Stack Engineer, Blockchain
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As a Full Stack Engineer at Fireblocks, you'll build mission-critical infrastructure powering DeFi connectivity, multi-chain integrations, transaction execution pipelines, and on-chain data access for some of the world's largest financial institutions and crypto-native organizations. The FinApps Access team operates at the intersection of blockchain protocol engineering and enterprise-grade reliability, designing systems that route, protect, and optimize transactions across dozens of chains at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and build robust, scalable backend services supporting high-volume on-chain transaction flows across multiple blockchain networks - both EVM and non-EVM.
- Own end-to-end development of backend components and APIs from architecture decisions to production deployment.
- Lead integrations with DeFi protocols, on-chain data sources, and blockchain nodes across a wide range of chains and ecosystems.
- Research and evaluate emerging blockchain technologies, protocols, and standards to keep Fireblocks at the cutting edge.
- Optimize existing production systems for performance, reliability, and security to reduce latency and increase throughput.
- Collaborate closely with product, protocol research, and platform engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
- Drive features from inception through to delivery at scale, taking full ownership of the product lifecycle.
What you bring
- 7+ years of experience as a Backend or Full Stack Engineer.
- Bachelor of Science or equivalent degree/experience.
- Deep blockchain and Web3 experience, including understanding of transaction lifecycles, consensus mechanisms, smart contract interactions, and on-chain data.
- Proven experience working across multiple blockchain ecosystems - EVM-compatible chains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Base, as well as non-EVM chains such as Solana, TON, Tron, or similar.
- Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Experience designing and operating microservices in production CI/CD environments.
- Strong understanding of security principles, cryptography, and best practices in a blockchain context.
- Experience with Web3 tooling and libraries such as ethers.js, viem, web3.js, or Solana web3.js.
- Demonstrated experience taking products from inception to delivery at scale.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols such as AMMs, lending markets, bridging infrastructure, or on-chain routing.
- Full stack experience including React and frontend development.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
- Work at the frontier of blockchain infrastructure with real impact on how DeFi scales for institutional and retail users.
- Opportunity to tackle genuinely hard engineering problems including multi-chain routing, on-chain data indexing, and protocol integrations.
- Collaboration with world-class engineers, protocol researchers, and product teams in a fast-growing global company.
About Fireblocks
Fireblocks is the premier digital asset infrastructure provider trusted by thousands of industry-defining financial institutions, backed by over $1 billion in capital. With an enterprise-grade platform and network that have powered over $14 trillion in digital asset transfers worldwide, Fireblocks is on a mission to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Fireblocks has 8 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 5 in Sales, 2 in Customer Support and 1 in Engineering. All are on-site or hybrid, mostly in the UK and the US. 1 was posted in the last 7 days.
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