Staff-Level Backend Engineer (Web3)

About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that has secured significant funding to support its mission of making financial infrastructure a public good. Morpho provides an open, efficient, and resilient platform that allows anyone to earn yield and borrow assets. Developers or businesses can create markets, curate vaults, and build a range of applications on its flexible, permissionless infrastructure.

Location

This position is based in Paris, France, with the option for hybrid work arrangements. Candidates can work remotely up to -7h CET to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team.

Mission & Responsibilities

The Morpho team is developing a range of products built on the Morpho protocol, including frontends, public APIs, and SDKs, all aimed at facilitating seamless integration of the protocol into the broader ecosystem. Your challenge will be to manage a backend synchronized with multiple blockchains, providing advanced data and features.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaboration: Regularly review peers' code and participate in daily meetings. Learn and share Morpho Labs code practices, make code suggestions, and gain a deep understanding of the codebase and features.
• Development: Own and implement features, either from scratch or by enriching current implementations. Ensure that the feature/code is understandable by peers and all code readers. Optimize backend performances and improve resilience.
• Management: Make accurate estimations on specs, split specs into technical tasks, and keep tickets up-to-date. Communicate with the product team to ensure clarity and feasibility.
• Knowledge Sharing: Share expertise and assist other backend developers in designing technical implementations of features. Ensure that users that are using the backend have enough context to integrate the API.

Must-have Experience & Skills

• 10 years of experience in Backend, DevOps.
• 3-4 years of experience in the web3 space.
• Proficiency in backend architectures such as dependency injection, modularity, microservices, web apps, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with AWS and Terraform.
• Experience working with logs & on-chain data in the web3 space.
• Proficiency in sprints, ticket management, PRs, and clear communication.
• Maintains a humble and low-ego approach.
• Flexible and agile, but capable of pushing back against unrealistic or undefined goals to ensure clarity and feasibility.

Nice to Have

• Rust experience, particularly in the web3 space (reth, alloy & all the paradigm stack).
• Experience with queue mechanisms such as RabbitMQ, SQS.
• Frontend knowledge.
• Being based in Paris and willing to come to the office from time to time.

What We Offer

• Join one of the most important DeFi protocols with a really ambitious team.
• A very stimulating environment with team members who are among the best researchers and engineers on Crypto/DeFi topics.
• The opportunity to contribute to one of the top Decentralized Lending protocols.
• A comfortable work environment with flexible policy on working remotely or from our Paris office.
• Team events including off-sites, bootcamps, and afterworks, even when you’re remote.
• An attractive package including Morpho tokens.

Ready to shape the future of finance? We are looking forward to receiving your application.