Lead Backend Engineer

Brief Overview: Through your work at Vauld, you will have the opportunity to change money for the 21st century. We’re a leading cryptocurrency platform and are passionate about increasing economic freedom around the world. We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who has hands-on experience working with and leading Product teams and has solved for and built complex backend solutions. You'll be involved with bringing features and products from idea to completion and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers. If you are looking for a challenging work environment where you can grow and deepen your technical skills as a backend engineer and architect, we’d love to chat with you! Key Responsibilities: Working with CXO’s, product managers, devops, and frontend engineers to collaboratively own the backend-end layer for Vauld’s application. Architect and build highly scalable, secure features keeping the long term vision of the product. Requirements: You have 7 years or more of backend development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications. Worked with and built high performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework. You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework. You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring. Preferred: Previous work experience in product-based startups Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution Understands the cryptocurrency landscape Working at Vauld: You will join a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on being disruptive and ambitious, a career with Vauld is perfect for you.