Staff Backend Engineer

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Morpho, you'll build and own the backend systems powering Morpho's consumer-facing products. You'll deliver reliable, performant APIs and data pipelines that serve accurate financial data to users at scale. Morpho is a leading DeFi lending protocol backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and others, with over a billion in deposits and institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, Anchorage Digital, Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken.

What you'll do

• Develop backend features using TypeScript and Node to deliver clear product outcomes for the Morpho Consumer team.
• Design and evolve APIs (REST, GraphQL, and others) and data models to expose accurate, secure financial data to the frontend with sub-second response times.
• Operate and improve PostgreSQL-backed data pipelines to ensure performance, reliability, and availability as transaction volumes grow.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product to scope, ship, and iterate on end-to-end features across the Consumer product.
• Identify and implement architecture improvements, enhancing data processing, caching, and API layer design to simplify systems and reduce operational burden.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues to maintain a high-quality user experience.
• Write clear, concise documentation and async updates to keep stakeholders aligned across time zones.

What you bring

• 8-10+ years of backend development experience in production TypeScript/Node environments.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.
• Experience working on a backend-for-frontend stack or collaborating closely with frontend teams to serve product data.
• A track record operating production systems at scale, including reliability, observability, and performance under real load.
• A strong interest in the Web3 ecosystem and comfort learning the DeFi domain.
• Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where priorities shift.
• Strong ownership and autonomy, taking responsibility for outcomes end-to-end.
• Clear and crisp async communication, writing well and keeping distributed teams aligned.
• A team-first mindset with low ego.

What we offer

• Fair, top-tier compensation
• Real flexibility and remote work (Europe only, GMT to GMT+2 time zones to ensure overlap with the team)
• Time together in Paris
• Great health coverage
• Support to keep learning and grow

About Morpho

Morpho is a leading DeFi lending protocol built to create an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere access to the best possible terms. With over a billion in deposits, Morpho is used by institutional clients and the largest crypto exchanges worldwide. Morpho exists to solve fragmented access to capital by connecting borrowers and lenders directly, eliminating unnecessary intermediaries.