Backend Engineer, Privy

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.

What it asks for · 7

• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
• An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
• Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• A growth mindset, a constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
• An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation

Also a plus

• Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
• Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
• Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
• Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
• Experience in authentication, identity, or security

What the job covers

• Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
• Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
• Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
• Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform
• Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• security4×
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• build3×
• design3×
• developers3×
• engineering3×
• practices3×
• privy3×
• systems3×
• apis2×
• blockchain2×
• code2×
• core2×
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