Staff Backend Engineer

Company: Superstate
Location: Remote
Type: Remote, Full-Time
Posted: Aug 21, 2026
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Blockchain DeFi Engineer Rust Solidity TypeScript

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Superstate, a blockchain tokenization startup creating investment products for traditional finance, is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer remotely. You'll build backend services, APIs, and infrastructure integrating blockchains with finance, using Rust, AWS (Fargate, RDS, EC2, ECS), Postgres, Docker, and TypeScript. Requires 9+ years of engineering experience, deep Rust expertise, and familiarity with DeFi, Solana, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi or Terraform. Perks include competitive compensation, equity, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, and full medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.

As an engineer at Superstate, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. You’ll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.

  • Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance

  • Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians

  • Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent

  • Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts

  • Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact

  • Teach and mentor other engineers

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience

  • Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS

  • Deep Rust experience

  • Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites

  • Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization

  • Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem

  • Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset

  • Pulumi or Terraform

  • AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave

  • Cloudflare

  • Postgres

  • Docker

  • Typescript

  • Solana Programs

  • Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges

  • Solidity or Yul

  • Foundry

  • Competitive compensation

  • Equity ownership

  • Flexible vacation policy

  • Paid parental leave

  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.

Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.

About the Company

Name: Superstate
Location: NYC (NY)

Superstate builds investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.

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