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May 22

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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) on Bitcoin and Stacks. • Ensure high performance and reliability of our APIs – you’ll optimize 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 experiences for developers. • Write and automate thorough tests (unit, integration, performance) for your code – we use tools like k6 for load testing and Playwright for end-to-end testing – to ensure every release is of top quality. • Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, contributing to design decisions and championing engineering best practices to continuously improve code quality. • Monitor and troubleshoot production systems as needed, debug issues across services and the stack, and implement fixes to maintain the stability and security of our platform. • Work across the stack when necessary – primarily on backend APIs, but occasionally diving into frontend code or internal tools – to deliver complete solutions and improve our overall developer experience.

🎯 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.) You can quickly pick up new languages and technologies as needed. • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and scaling web APIs or microservices – you have tackled challenges in system design, performance tuning, and reliability for high-traffic services. • Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL – from data modeling and querying to performance optimization. • Familiarity with modern cloud and container infrastructure. You’ve worked with containers/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and deployed services on cloud platforms (we use GCP). • Passion for code quality and automation. You write clean, maintainable code and have experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) to ensure smooth deployments. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Comfortable working in a remote, distributed team and coordinating across time zones. • Self-driven and ownership-minded. You take initiative, have a bias for action, and can manage projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $150,000 - $200,000. • 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