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The multi-chain liquidity gateway. A DeFi middleware to build crypto-enabled businesses.
Senior Backend Engineer – Stellar Ecosystem
Location
Europe
Posted
140 days ago
Salary
€90K - €130K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Stellar Ecosystem
LI.FI
• Leading and actively participating in the design, development, and maintenance of backend systems and APIs • Architecting and implementing scalable and robust backend solutions that can handle growing user loads and evolving business needs • Maintaining high coding standards, conduct code reviews, and ensuring best practices for code maintainability and readability • Identifying bottlenecks and optimizing code and algorithms to improve system performance • Implementing monitoring and debugging tools to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high system availability • Developing and maintaining comprehensive test suites, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability of backend systems • Providing guidance and mentorship to junior developers, helping them grow their technical skills • Analyzing complex technical problems and propose effective solutions to address them • Documenting code, APIs, and technical processes to facilitate knowledge sharing within the team and support onboarding of new developers
Job Requirements
- Must be located in the EMEA region
- Strong experience with TypeScript is required
- Experience working with the Stellar network in production environments
- Previous experience in the blockchain space, with a technical understanding of the EVM ecosystem (or other blockchain ecosystems), is a plus
- Extensive professional experience in a similar role (senior or lead level)
- Solid understanding of document databases and caching mechanisms
- Experience in software design and system architecture
- Strong knowledge of testing frameworks and best practices
- Excellent communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Proactive mindset with the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
- Ability to write maintainable, scalable, production-grade code
- Curiosity for new technologies and the ability to evaluate and suggest improvements independently
- Very strong written and verbal English skills for effective communication with team members and stakeholders
- Experience with Stellar’s Soroban smart contracts is a plus
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science is a plus
Benefits
- Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023 and Vietnam in 2024 were a blast, Marrakech in March 2025 was blast-ier; let’s see what happens in 2026!)
- 30 days of PTO
- Flexible remote days
- Flexible working hours
- Equity participation from day 1
- Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment)
- An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months (pro-rated the first year)
- A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc.
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