About the Company
Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world. We have over $10B in assets under management and a team of 30 almost all technical staff. We've been profitable day one and are focusing on building real consumer applications.
The future we envisage is true on-chain banking. Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards. You can view public analytics on Dune for Cash and Stake.
Position overview
We're looking for a senior full backend software engineer to own core backend architecture, card transaction processing and high availability. You will belong to a key engineering team focusing on delivering distributed, scalable and robust backend systems. Everything from card transaction processing, low latency apis, microservice architectures and on-chain data indexing. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughout and latency
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.
- Tackle the challenges in user frictions for their card transactions being declined
- Drive improvements in our Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems.
What we are looking for
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving
- You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users
- 5+ years of professional coding experience
- Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality
- Plus if you are experienced in credit card transaction processor such as Paymentology, Episode 6, etc.
- Plus if you are experience in card issuing side
Perks & Compensation
- Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
- Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team
- Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
- 4 weeks work from anywhere
- Exciting company events and team-building off-sites
About ether.fi
ether.fi, founded in 2022 by Mike Silagadze, founder of Top Hat, and Rok Kopp with headquarters in Grand Cayman, operates a leading decentralized liquid restaking protocol on Ethereum. Its eETH and weETH tokens let users stake ether while retaining liquidity and earning EigenLayer restaking rewards plus native yield, secured through distributed validator technology. Governance is via ETHFI token, and the protocol emphasizes non-custodial design where stakers retain key control. Securing significant TVL across Ethereum, ether.fi is audited and backed by leading investors including Bullish and CoinFund. Headquartered with a distributed team across North America and Cayman, the project blends DeFi engineering with staking operations. Expect a security-conscious culture focused on validator reliability, transparent risk and expanding restaked yield opportunities for holders.