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Founding Backend Engineer

Arcade

Uploaded on Aug 17, 2026

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Remote · North America, Europe$150k – $200k USDFull-Time

Job description

About Arcade

We're the team behind PRJX, the #1 DEX on HyperEVM, which generated $5.4M revenue in year one with 2 full time people.

Now, we're pursuing the biggest opportunity in crypto.

The foundation of which is creating the best place to trade crypto (spot + perps) on your phone.

On top of that, we’re building a completely original social product with several novel mechanisms.

We’ll reveal more to promising candidates, but whatever you think it may be, think bigger.

Role

Staff+ level · $200,000+ · significant equity

Stack. TypeScript/Node · Express 5 · Postgres with Drizzle · pnpm monorepo · Awilix · Vitest · AWS (SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) · Solana via @solana/kit · market data via Alchemy, Mobula, etc . Rust and Go are a plus.

Details. Remote · NA/EU timezone ideal · Full-time · Primarily async

You're the first and only engineer in your domain. Your job is to take an original product vision and turn it into a robust system, holding the entire architecture and smallest details at once.

You will…

  • Build the best trading system in crypto.
  • Own the entire trading infrastructure.
  • Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
  • Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
  • Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
  • Scale the system to $100M daily volume.

You have…

  • Owned the system of record for customer funds across ledger, settlement, and matching.
  • Defined a financial system's consistency guarantees and operating limits.
  • Migrated live financial data with zero downtime and zero loss.
  • Operated a high-throughput system under adversarial conditions.
  • Been the final authority and the last escalation.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Rust and Go is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build the best trading system in crypto.
  • Own the entire trading infrastructure.
  • Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
  • Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
  • Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
  • Scale the system to $100M daily volume.

Focus areas

  • crypto
  • fintech

Required skills

  • JavaScript & TypeScript(must have)

    Develop and maintain applications using TypeScript in a Node.js environment.

  • Node.js(must have)

    Build server-side applications and services using Node.js.

  • PostgreSQL(must have)

    Design and manage databases using PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and performance.

  • AWS(must have)

    Utilize AWS services such as SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, and S3 for application deployment and management.

  • API Integration(must have)

    Design and implement APIs to facilitate communication between different services.

  • Rust(nice to have)

    Contribute to projects using Rust for performance-critical components.

  • Go(nice to have)

    Develop applications or services using Go, particularly for concurrent processing.