Senior Software Engineer - Backend
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Engineering
Remote
Full Time
Senior
$170K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
About Us:
Ether.fi is an innovative, rapidly growing crypto-native financial platform on a mission to put users in control of their wealth—making it easy to save, earn, and spend crypto. Positioned as a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) bank, ether.fi offers a fully integrated, non-custodial suite of products—Stake, Liquid, and Cash—that bridge crypto utility with real-world convenience.
With over $8B in assets under management and a lean, agile team of 25+, we’re building sustainable, secure, and scalable financial infrastructure to onboard the next billion users to crypto. Our offerings include liquid staking, automated yield strategies, and crypto-native payment solutions like credit cards, enabling a comprehensive decentralized banking experience.
Learn more at ether.fi.
Position Overview
We’re looking for engineers who want to build & ship. People who get a kick out of solving challenging problems, hacking on side projects, and building things that actually ship. The primary focus of this role is building robust, secure, and efficient transaction processing systems and building rich features to provide the best DeFi bank experiences.
You'll also have the opportunity to impact other exciting projects within ether.fi, enhancing your scope of influence and technical growth.
What you will do
- Building the future of finance, DeFi bank, and bringing it to the real world use cases
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.
- Implement and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Terraform
- Drive improvements in our CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems to streamline operational efficiency.
- Engaging in rigorous testing, code reviews, and documentation to uphold high standards of quality and maintainability.
What we are looking for
- Have strong fundamentals in software engineering & enjoys problem solving and have shipped something real.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining server-side applications.
- 5+ years of professional coding experience.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, data consistency, and scalability.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native tools
- Enthusiasm for joining a dynamic, collaborative, and fast-paced environment.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
- Opportunity to work with a Top 4 Ethereum protocol, by TVL
- Opportunities for professional development and growth within the organization
- Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Collaborative and inclusive work culture
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space
- Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
- 4 weeks work from anywhere
- Exciting company events and team-building off-sites
Company
Ether.Fi
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ether.fi is a noncustodial, decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Ethereum network. Users can deposit ETH or other liquid staking tokens and receive in return the protocol’s native token, eETH. This token is a rebasing ERC-20 that represents staked ETH shares and automatically accumulates rewards from both Ethereum staking and EigenLayer restaking. Since its launch in 2023, ether.fi has seen rapid growth, managing billions of dollars in assets.
A key feature of ether.fi is its commitment to security and decentralization. Unlike many staking platforms, ether.fi allows users to retain control over their validator keys. The protocol uses NFTs to represent individual validators, which can be tied to either users or node operators. This model supports transparency, minimizes custodial risk, and enables flexible, programmable participation in the Ethereum ecosystem. Rewards are distributed across three main streams: native ETH staking yield, bonuses from restaking on EigenLayer, and yield from using eETH or its wrapped form, weETH, in DeFi protocols.
Governance within ether.fi is driven by the ETHFI token. This governance token allows holders to participate in decisions such as parameter adjustments, node operator approvals, and treasury usage. ETHFI staking also unlocks loyalty rewards and has been used in airdrop campaigns to incentivize early adoption and community engagement. Through a combination of decentralized infrastructure, DeFi integration, and community governance, ether.fi aims to reshape Ethereum staking into a more open and accessible system.