Backend Engineer

About the Company

Veda is the DeFi engine powering financial apps enabling platforms to seamlessly create on-chain yield products. Veda's technology powers many of DeFi's largest vault products, including ether.fi Liquid, PlasmaUSD Vault, Lombard DeFi Vault, and Mantle cmETH.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems powering Veda's API and internal services
• Own projects end-to-end from scoping and design to implementation, testing, and production delivery
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to turn technical debt into modern, maintainable, and highly available systems
• Write clean, well-tested code and maintain strong CI/CD hygiene
• Deploy, monitor, and scale services in production using modern cloud tooling
• Contribute to system design discussions covering performance, reliability, and data architecture
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems
• Continuously identify and drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and performance

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Proven experience delivering production systems end-to-end
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, Java, or C++
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, relational databases (Postgres or MySQL), and service-based architectures
• Experience with version control (Git), unit/integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation or owning production systems
• Demonstrated ability to design scalable systems and refactor legacy components

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, crypto, or other high-availability systems
• Familiarity with asynchronous task queues, event-driven architecture, or distributed systems design
• Prior experience in startups or early-stage, high-ambiguity environments
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical leadership

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible time off (no tracked vacation days)
• Remote-first culture
• Paid parental leave
• Learning and development stipends