Principal Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure (Remote, US) Location: US (remote-first, office optional), will consider strong profiles from Canada. EST preferred. Compensation: $220K - $300K Are you a technical leader ready to build the next generation of financial infrastructure? Join a stellar team of leaders and experts in blockchain technology, cryptography, infrastructure, and security to build the backbone of secure, resilient systems for the evolving financial era. Our client is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and scaling of their core backend systems. This is a high-impact, remote-first role for someone who excels at setting technical direction and owning critical projects end-to-end. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be more than just a coder; you will be a key driver of technical strategy and execution. You will own mission-critical projects while setting the technical direction and ensuring their platform is fast, resilient, and secure under the high-stakes demands of financial workflows. - Lead the design and development of highly scalable, secure backend services and APIs. - Define and evolve the architecture for databases, microservices, and system integrations. - Own critical projects from initial requirements through production deployment and iteration. - Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and reliability challenges at massive scale. - Drive improvements to CI/CD, observability, and engineering processes across multiple teams. - Collaborate with product, security, and leadership to shape roadmap priorities and align technical execution with long-term company strategy. - Mentor senior engineers, promote best practices, and represent technical expertise in high-level client discussions. - Make key architectural decisions and drive engineering standards across the organization.

Full-time - Singapore At Nas.io, we’re building the future of online business. Our AI-powered platform helps solopreneurs and professionals transform ideas into thriving digital products—fast, simple, and low-cost. With Nas.io, anyone can go from concept to creation: launch a product, find their first customers, and generate their first revenue online in minutes. Founded by the team behind Nas Daily, whose content reaches over 500 million people every month, we are a global team of 100 people serving users around the world, united by one mission: to make starting and scaling an online business easier than ever before. Position Overview Nas.io is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to support and scale our backend systems for a fast-growing creator platform. This is a full-time role open to candidates in Singapore. The ideal candidate thrives in an asynchronous work environment, can work independently, and is passionate about improving product reliability, system architecture, and performance. You will play a key role in ensuring our platform remains robust and responsive around the clock. Key Responsibilities - Backend Feature Development: Collaborate with product managers to design and implement new backend features that align with business goals and user needs. Ensure features are delivered from concept to deployment with high quality. - System Architecture & Performance: Continuously improve the architecture of our core systems for better performance, scalability, and maintainability. Participate in technical design discussions and make decisions to enhance system reliability. - Infrastructure & DevOps: Enhance and maintain our infrastructure (AWS cloud services and related tooling). Set up and refine CI/CD pipelines as needed to streamline deployments. - Monitoring & Alerts: Establish and fine-tune comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting across all platforms. Maintain observability tools to ensure any issues are detected early and accurately, enabling rapid response. - Off-Hours Support: Serve as the point person for troubleshooting and responding to backend system issues during off-peak hours (EU daytime / APAC night). Promptly address incidents, mitigate impact, and escalate to the broader engineering team if critical issues arise outside your expertise. - Quality & Best Practices: Uphold high code quality standards through code reviews, testing, and documentation. Introduce best practices for coding, error handling, and performance optimization across the backend team. Qualifications & Skills - Experience: 4+ years in backend development or systems engineering roles, with a strong track record of building and maintaining scalable systems. - Backend Proficiency: Hands-on experience in one or more backend programming languages and frameworks (Node.js, Python) for building APIs and services. - Databases & Caching: Solid experience working with databases (especially MongoDB or other NoSQL/SQL databases) and caching systems like Redis to build efficient data-driven applications. - Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc. Ability to manage and optimize cloud resources for cost and performance. - Observability: Experience with observability and monitoring tools (for example, setting up dashboards, logs, and alerts using services like CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana/Prometheus) to ensure system health and performance. - Autonomous Work: Proven ability to work autonomously and take initiative in a remote, asynchronous environment. You should be comfortable making progress with limited supervision and adept at communicating progress or issues in writing. - Problem-Solving Skills: Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities, especially under time pressure when responding to incidents. Capable of systematically diagnosing issues across a complex system (from application to database to infrastructure). - Bonus Points: Prior experience at a startup or in a fast-paced tech company. Such background demonstrates adaptability and the ability to handle broad responsibilities beyond a narrow role definition. Our Company Values - Think in Days: We don't think about how many years something will take, we think about how many days. This is our secret to fast growth. - Always Share Secrets: We don't believe in secrets. We share with our followers and our employees what we do and why we do it. - Never Miss a Monday: We never miss a meeting. We never miss a deadline. We never miss a commitment. Commitment is at the core of our DNA. - Be A Force For Good: All our actions intend to bring a positive impact to everyone around us. - Explain for a 10-year old: We communicate in a simple and inclusive manner, free from unnecessary complexity. Benefits At Nas Company, we work hard, REALLY HARD! So we value our employees' well-being and believe that a supportive and fulfilling work environment contributes to their success. We're proud to offer a range of benefits that will enhance your professional and personal life. Here's what you can look forward to as part of our team: 😷 Medical Insurance: We care about your health. Our comprehensive medical insurance plans are tailored to each region, ensuring you have the coverage you need. 🧘🏽 Self Care/Wellness Fund: Your well-being matters. We provide a monthly fund of $100 to spend on activities that bring you joy and promote your self-care. 🧠 Mental Health Fund: We care about your mental health too! We provide a monthly fund of $150 to spend on therapy or career coaching. 🏖️ Yearly Retreats: Unwind, bond, and collaborate at our annual company retreats. A time for the entire company to come together to rejuvenate and bond. 💰 Stock Options/Profit share: As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to potentially own a piece of the company through stock options or profit sharing, depending on company discretion, aligning your success with ours.

• Define and maintain the technical vision for assigned projects and stack practice. • Make architectural and technology stack decisions aligned with long-term strategy. • Enforce coding standards, best practices, and engineering excellence. • Manage technical debt – identify, prioritise, and oversee resolution. • People Management of up to 12 people. • Provide direct line management for developers: 1:1s, performance reviews, career planning, salary input. • Mentor developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. • Participate in recruitment and ensure effective onboarding for new hires. • Support presales processes with technical expertise, including high-level designs, architecture proposals, and highlighting potential risks and challenges. • Decompose business requirements into technical deliverables and support accurate estimations. • Promote innovation by monitoring trends and recommending relevant solutions. • Contribute to department-wide discussions on technologies and ways of working, providing input on efficiency, optimization, and best practices. • Strengthen client trust and satisfaction (NPS) by ensuring high technical quality and timely delivery.

• Deliver new cutting edge product features. • Writing and owning design/implementation of the code that drives our products. • Suggesting and deciding what features to build. • Driving the design and architecture. • Pushing, testing, documenting the feature. • Working alongside customers in the field if needed.