Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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October 28

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Stacks

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Crypto • Blockchain • Fintech

Stacks is a leading Layer 2 solution designed to enhance the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) that leverage Bitcoin's security features. The platform introduces sBTC, a Bitcoin-backed asset that facilitates the movement of BTC between Bitcoin's Layer 1 and Stacks. Stacks aims to unlock over $1 trillion in potential Bitcoin capital while providing a fast, secure infrastructure for DeFi and other applications.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that drive Hiro’s developer platform (e.g. blockchain data, token metadata, ordinals, and Chainhook-2.0). • Work on Chainhook-2.0, a high-performance, reliable, and reorg-aware transaction indexer that delivers real-time Bitcoin and Stacks data to developers and applications. • Ensure high performance and reliability of APIs and data pipelines, optimizing endpoints, databases, and caching to handle increasing load with low latency and high uptime. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to plan and implement new features end-to-end, delivering seamless developer experiences. • Write and automate thorough tests (unit, integration, performance) using tools like k6 and Playwright, ensuring every release meets our quality standards. • Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, contributing to design decisions and championing engineering best practices. • Monitor and troubleshoot production systems as needed, debugging issues across services and implementing fixes to maintain stability and security. • Work across the stack when necessary, primarily backend APIs, but occasionally frontend code or internal tools, to deliver complete, high-quality solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience building and shipping production applications, with a focus on backend systems or API-driven services. • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Rust (our core services are built with these languages). • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and scaling web APIs or microservices, including performance tuning, system design, and reliability. • Hands-on experience with relational databases (especially PostgreSQL), including data modeling, querying, and optimization. • Familiarity with modern cloud and container infrastructure, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP. • Passion for code quality and automation, writing clean, maintainable code and building automated testing and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions). • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working in a remote, distributed team across time zones. • Self-driven and ownership-minded, able to take initiative, manage projects end-to-end, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. • Highly autonomous and self-driven, with strong ownership and a bias toward action — able to identify priorities, make tradeoffs, and deliver outcomes in evolving, fast-paced environments. • Thrives in ambiguity, adaptable, resourceful, and able to bring clarity through execution. • Product-minded engineering approach, capable of collaborating with product teams to define goals, shape the strategic direction of the Platform, and deliver developer experiences that scale.

🏖️ Benefits

• Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network • $500/mo co-working space reimbursement • $1,200/yr stipend for learning and development • $1,000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing • Daily Lunch Reimbursement (even if you’re remote!) • Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need • Family-Friendly Health Benefits • Free Life and Disability Insurance • Health and dependent care (FSA) • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave • Pre-tax commuter benefits • 401k with 3% match