Senior Backend Engineer - Hyperliquid ecosystem

Team: IT

Location: Italy

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Own key architecture and technical decisions across backend systems, ensuring they remain scalable, reliable, and performant.

• Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.

• Design, develop, and maintain API infrastructure, including GraphQL and WebSockets, for web and mobile clients.

• Work extensively with PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and similar technologies to support high-volume trading data.

• Optimize queries, caching strategies, schemas, and data access patterns as usage and data volumes grow.

• Instrument services with appropriate metrics, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations.

• Investigate and resolve latency, memory, performance, and reliability issues under demanding production workloads.

• Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver analytical and real-time data through robust APIs.

• Contribute to a fast-paced 0-to-1 development environment where engineers have meaningful ownership over what they build.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, ideally with strong production experience in TypeScript.

• Proven experience designing and operating real-time systems using WebSockets, event streaming, pub/sub, or similar technologies.

• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis; experience with ClickHouse or another columnar database is highly valued.

• Demonstrated experience operating highly available services at significant scale.

• Strong understanding of trading concepts, including orders, fills, order books, positions, and execution.

• Experience designing APIs for latency-sensitive, high-throughput applications and clients.

• Excellent debugging and performance optimization skills, including experience diagnosing slow queries, memory leaks, and production bottlenecks.

• Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and integration patterns.

• Familiarity with EVM-based systems, DeFi, or on-chain data is advantageous.

• Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming technologies is a plus.

• Background in trading platforms, fintech, low-latency applications, or other performance-critical environments is a plus.

• Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly evolving environment.

Benefits

• Salary: $150,000–$200,000 USD per year for a full-time permanent position, plus equity and benefits.

• Remote-first: Work remotely from Europe or the USA.

• Remote setup stipend: Budget for a laptop, peripherals, and other equipment needed to create your ideal workspace.

• Global collaboration: Multiple in-person team offsites and coworking opportunities around the world.

• Flexible vacation: Flexible time-off policy with genuine encouragement to disconnect and recharge.

• Learning & development: Dedicated budget to support continuous learning and professional growth.

• Permanent employment: Full-time, permanent contract with a remote working model.