Senior Backend Engineer

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October 23

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Squads

Fintech • Crypto • API

Squads is a financial technology company that provides products and APIs for the stablecoin economy, enabling businesses, developers and individuals to save, earn, move and manage tokenized money. Its offerings include Altitude (a global business account), Fuse (a personal finance app for stablecoins and tokenized assets), Grid (a stablecoin API for accounts, payments, cards and yield) and a multisig platform to secure Solana assets. Squads builds on open infrastructure and internet capital markets and operates as a fintech platform (not a bank or custodian).

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🔌 API

📋 Description

• Build the backend services powering Altitude, working with a team shipping real products to real businesses. • Own entire domains from architecture to production. • Real-time settlement engine reconciling on-chain and off-chain transactions • Bulk payment APIs processing thousands of transactions per second • Card issuing infrastructure with instant spend notifications • DeFi yield integration abstracting complex protocols into simple APIs

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years backend experience shipping and operating production services • Strong Rust experience (or background in Go/C++ with willingness to dive into Rust) • Proven work with gRPC & HTTP APIs, service contracts and multi-service architectures • Solid PostgreSQL and Redis skills - schema design, performance tuning, debugging • AWS (ECS) and Docker expertise - containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform • Strong engineering fundamentals - observability, testing and benchmarking • Fintech or transaction-heavy systems experience • Solana exposure (RPC clients, transactions, on-chain concepts) - bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• We’re offering competitive and generous compensation, with meaningful equity and upside. • Unlimited, flexible PTO • Flexible work schedule • Company laptop and allowance for any necessary home equipment • Two company-paid off-sites per year

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