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Senior Backend Engineer – Hyperliquid ecosystem
Location
Europe
Posted
90 days ago
Salary
$150K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Hyperliquid ecosystem
Startup Talent
• Own architecture decisions for the company's backend systems • Build and operate real-time data pipelines for order book updates, trades, and market events • Design and maintain the API layer (GraphQL, WebSockets) serving web and mobile clients • Work with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and Redis to handle high-volume trading data • Optimize query performance, caching, and schema design as data scales • Instrument services with metrics and alerting; participate in on-call rotations • Debug latency issues, memory problems, and system reliability under load • Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers on serving analytical data via API
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of production backend experience, ideally in TypeScript
- Strong experience with real-time systems: WebSockets, event streaming, pub/sub
- Deep familiarity with PostgreSQL and Redis; ClickHouse or similar columnar databases a plus
- Track record operating services at scale with high availability requirements
- Understanding of trading concepts: orders, fills, order books, positions, execution
- Experience designing APIs for latency-sensitive, high-throughput clients
- Solid debugging skills — comfortable with slow queries, memory leaks, performance profiling
Benefits
- Permanent role (Remote) EMEA or USA
- Salary: 150-200K USD per year on a full-time permanent work contract + equity and benefits
- Stipend for your ideal remote setup including laptop, peripherals, and work gear
- Multiple in-person team offsites and coworking sessions around the world
- Flexible vacation policy with genuine encouragement to take time off
- Learning and development budget to help you continuously deepen your craft
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