About the Role
As a Founding Backend + API Engineer at Axel, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of our financial infrastructure. You will be responsible for building out Axel’s core non-custodial read/write API, which includes four API suites: lending, staking, exchanging, and yield. Your work will involve architecting simple solutions across complex systems, designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and performant APIs, microservices, and systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Build the Future of Financial Infrastructure: You will develop Axel’s core APIs that will serve as the backbone for our financial services.
- Architect Solutions: Design and implement scalable and reliable solutions that will handle high throughput and low latency demands.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with other engineers, participating in scoping out features, pair programming, and driving product development.
- Ownership and Leadership: Take full ownership of projects from conception to deployment, setting standards for code quality and engineering practices.
- Continuous Improvement: Enhance our engineering processes, tools, and systems to improve scalability, code base, and team productivity.
What We Look For
- 2-4 years of relevant industry experience in backend development.
- Strong foundation in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in Typescript (Node) and/or Rust.
- Experience with distributed systems, web applications, and microservice architecture.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS technologies, and the CI/CD pipeline.
- Passion for building developer-centric, high-quality API products.
Benefits at Axel
- Competitive Salaries: We are well-funded, allowing us to offer salaries that are competitive within the industry.
- Great Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance and more.
- Meaningful Equity: Receive equity in a company poised for substantial growth.
- Relocation Assistance: If you're not local to the Bay Area, we can help you relocate.
- Regular Team Meetups: Regularly scheduled flights to our HQ for team collaboration and bonding.
Why Join Axel?
Joining Axel means being part of a team that values innovation and is committed to creating a transformative financial infrastructure. We are a group of passionate individuals who believe in the power of technology to change the world. If you are looking to make a significant impact and grow with a dynamic team, Axel is the place for you.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Competitive salary
- Great benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Relocation assistance
- Regular team meetups
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