Software Engineer - Crypto

As a Software Engineer - Crypto, you will build and evolve the core technology powering large-scale crypto trading and brokerage services. You will architect and develop exchange, market-making, wallet, funding, and tokenization systems serving millions of users, working on high-throughput, low-latency systems where reliability, scalability, and software quality are critical. This role combines backend engineering, distributed systems, financial technology, and crypto infrastructure, with significant ownership over technical solutions while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in a globally distributed, engineering-driven environment.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain exchange and market-making systems supporting crypto trading at scale.
• Develop reliable services for crypto wallets, funding, tokenization, and related financial infrastructure.
• Architect and implement backend services and web applications using modern engineering practices.
• Build systems capable of handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads while maintaining reliability and fault tolerance.
• Maintain strong software quality, testing standards, code coverage, and clean, maintainable code.
• Participate actively in code reviews and contribute to technical decision-making.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, technical issues, and reported bugs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical goals and design solutions that meet business requirements.
• Take part in on-call responsibilities when required to support time-sensitive engineering initiatives.

What you bring

• 4+ years of professional experience in backend software development.
• Proven experience building trading systems, exchanges, matching engines, market-making platforms, or other high-throughput, low-latency financial systems.
• Hands-on experience developing crypto-related products or infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets and regulated, fault-tolerant systems.
• Professional experience with at least one modern programming language such as Go, C, or C++, with strong Go experience particularly relevant.
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working with messaging queues and message brokers.
• Solid SQL and relational database knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with Bash, Linux, and Docker.
• A strong focus on software quality, reliability, testing, and delivering robust solutions.
• Comfort challenging existing approaches, sharing technical opinions, and taking ownership of engineering decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps practices, major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, microservice architectures, Agile/Scrum, or clean-code principles.
• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
• USD $150 monthly stipend provided through a Brex Card.
• Remote-friendly working environment with a globally distributed team.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale crypto, trading, and financial infrastructure.
• High level of autonomy and ownership over technical solutions.
• Collaboration with experienced engineers, traders, and financial technology professionals.
• Exposure to complex, high-throughput systems serving users and financial institutions globally.