Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Money Movement)

Phantom Worldwide

About the role

This is a senior backend engineering role for building the money-movement services that connect Phantom Cash with blockchains in a worldwide remote setting. You will design dependable APIs and event-driven systems while balancing product delivery, distributed-systems reliability, and blockchain integration. The role suits backend engineers with Node.js and NestJS experience who understand crypto protocols and production operations.

What you’ll do

  • Design, maintain, and evolve backend services and APIs for Phantom Cash.
  • Connect financial services to blockchain networks.
  • Build event-driven systems with queues, retries, and idempotency.
  • Develop versioned REST APIs with pagination, authentication, error handling, and rate limits.
  • Make sound client-server, state-management, and latency trade-offs.
  • Address concurrency, ordering, retries, and data consistency in distributed systems.
  • Document technical decisions and communicate across engineering pods.
  • Mentor engineers and raise delivery and quality standards.

What they’re looking for

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong Node.js and NestJS experience at scale.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architecture, queues, retries, and idempotency.
  • Experience designing REST APIs, authentication, pagination, error models, and rate limiting.
  • Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, ordering, and data consistency.
  • Pragmatic, proactive, outcome-oriented engineering and communication skills.
  • Deep interest in crypto, wallets, protocols, and security practices.

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes and AWS operations experience.
  • CI/CD, observability, and on-call ownership.
  • Professional experience in crypto or fintech, including exchanges, wallets, payment rails, or ledgers.
  • Smart-contract and blockchain protocol knowledge.
  • Solana integration experience; EVM experience is also acceptable.
  • Experience shipping products in mature, high-standard engineering organizations.

What’s on offer

  • Full-time remote work worldwide with flexible hours.
  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-work setup stipend.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly wellness and weekly meal benefits.
  • Global off-sites.

Questions about this role

Is this backend engineering role remote?

Yes. It is a full-time remote role open worldwide.

Which backend technologies are required?

The posting specifically requires Node.js and NestJS experience at scale.

What blockchain experience is preferred?

Solana is preferred, while EVM experience is acceptable.

Does the role require a degree?

It asks for a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

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