Senior Backend Engineer – Hyperliquid ecosystem

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🕒 March 11

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Startup Talent

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Startup Talent is a recruitment company specializing in connecting employers with top talent across various industries. They focus on helping businesses build solid teams and achieve their recruitment goals by attracting relevant applicants and retaining staff. Startup Talent emphasizes their expertise in sectors like IT, technology, and sales, providing customized staffing solutions that suit a variety of work patterns and employment types.

📋 Description

• Own architecture decisions for the company's backend systems • Build and operate real-time data pipelines for order book updates, trades, and market events • Design and maintain the API layer (GraphQL, WebSockets) serving web and mobile clients • Work with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and Redis to handle high-volume trading data • Optimize query performance, caching, and schema design as data scales • Instrument services with metrics and alerting; participate in on-call rotations • Debug latency issues, memory problems, and system reliability under load • Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers on serving analytical data via API

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of production backend experience, ideally in TypeScript • Strong experience with real-time systems: WebSockets, event streaming, pub/sub • Deep familiarity with PostgreSQL and Redis; ClickHouse or similar columnar databases a plus • Track record operating services at scale with high availability requirements • Understanding of trading concepts: orders, fills, order books, positions, execution • Experience designing APIs for latency-sensitive, high-throughput clients • Solid debugging skills — comfortable with slow queries, memory leaks, performance profiling

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent role (Remote) EMEA or USA • Salary: 150-200K USD per year on a full-time permanent work contract + equity and benefits • Stipend for your ideal remote setup including laptop, peripherals, and work gear • Multiple in-person team offsites and coworking sessions around the world • Flexible vacation policy with genuine encouragement to take time off • Learning and development budget to help you continuously deepen your craft