Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Money Movement)

Phantom
Anywhere
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Mentorship","Documentation","Collaboration"]

Senior Backend Software Engineer focused on building and evolving backend services and APIs that connect Phantom Cash to blockchains. You’ll balance reliability, performance, and security in a distributed system, communicate across pods, document rigorously, and mentor less experienced engineers to raise the team’s engineering bar. The role blends systems thinking with product pragmatism in a high-growth crypto environment.

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Phantom
Phantom
10 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Money Movement)

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Job Summary

Senior Backend Software Engineer focused on building and evolving backend services and APIs that connect Phantom Cash to blockchains. You’ll balance reliability, performance, and security in a distributed system, communicate across pods, document rigorously, and mentor less experienced engineers to raise the team’s engineering bar. The role blends systems thinking with product pragmatism in a high-growth crypto environment.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, maintain, and evolve the backend services and APIs that connect Phantom Cash to blockchains, balancing reliability, quality, and speed.
  • •Understand client-server architecture and blockchain protocols, ensuring scalable, dependable software.
  • •Communicate clearly across pods, document rigorously, and elevate the engineering bar through execution and mentorship.
  • •Help Phantom Cash feel dependable, seamless, and ready to scale by implementing robust backend systems and processes.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features in a high-growth crypto environment.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote Work401kWellness StipendMeal BenefitEquityInsurancePaid LeaveOff-sites

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • •Pragmatic engineering mindset — focuses on results and user impact, not abstract purity
  • •Proactive and outcome-oriented: anticipates problems, pushes features to completion without waiting for perfect specs
  • •Strong communicator and pragmatic problem solver - explains complexity simply, favors progress over perfection
  • •Node.js / NestJS at scale; event-driven design (queues, retries, idempotency)
Experience:CryptoFintech
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingMentorshipDocumentationCollaboration
Tech Stack:Node.jsNestJSRESTKubernetesAWSCI/CDObservabilityBlockchainSolanaEthereumPolygon

Company Brief

Phantom
Phantom builds a user-friendly, self-custodial multichain crypto wallet for managing tokens, NFTs, swaps, and on‑chain interactions across Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin and other networks—focused on mass adoption and consumer finance features.
Industry: Blockchain & Web3
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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