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Swoon · 11 hours ago

Backend Engineer

Swoon is partnering with a leading cryptocurrency company to support the growth of their core financial platform. This is a senior-level backend engineering role focused on building highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance distributed systems that power payments, money movement, and financial workflows.
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Responsibilities

Design and build multi-layered permission and role-based access systems using policy-driven and consensus-based approaches
Develop auto-remediation and exception management engines supporting financial fund flows
Build highly performant systems, including search capabilities with sub-millisecond latency as a guiding goal
Design and maintain highly concurrent, robust, and self-healing batch processing systems
Contribute to backend-focused, distributed system architectures supporting payments and money movement
Support workflow orchestration across multiple financial services
Write high-quality, well-tested production code that meets scalability and reliability requirements

Qualification

Distributed systemsBackend engineeringPayments systemsGoPythonAWSTerraformConcurrencyPerformanceFault toleranceVersion Control

Required

6+ years of experience working with distributed systems
Strong backend engineering experience (non-frontend focused)
Experience with payments, fintech, cryptocurrency, or money movement systems
Experience contributing as a senior engineer on small to medium-sized teams
Experience with platformization and building reusable backend platforms
Strong understanding of concurrency, performance, and fault tolerance
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field

Preferred

Experience in regulated or financial environments
Exposure to high-volume, low-latency systems
Comfort working in multi-language backend environments

Benefits

Fully remote opportunity
Competitive hourly rate
Work on cutting-edge financial and cryptocurrency infrastructure
High-impact engineering challenges with real-world scale

Company

In 2010, Swoon launched an agile, client-focused team that is not only savvy in our core industries but elbow-deep, every day, getting to know the strongest talent in the technology and professional fields.

H1B Sponsorship

Swoon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Andy Baker
Co-Founder and Leadership Advisor
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Alyssa Holtz
Client Partner
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