
Staff Backend Engineer, Aave App at Aave Labs
DeFi leader building Aave Protocol, GHO, Horizon, and lending platform.
Team of 143$50M funding proposal
Build backend infrastructure for a consumer onchain savings app; own systems between blockchain protocols and consumer experiences including account/wallet services, transaction orchestration, blockchain indexing, balances/yield data, funding/withdrawal flows, notifications, and APIs for mobile/web clients; high ownership over broad technical area, turning ambiguous product goals into reliable production systems; correctness, security, and operability are critical for customer transactions, sensitive account flows, and financial data across onchain/offchain infrastructure; lead technical reviews and improve testing, observability, alerting, incident response, and deployment practices; requires 6+ years backend experience owning complex production systems; must: strong backend engineering, API/GraphQL design, relational DBs, caching, queues, observability; Rust highly desirable, also strong systems experience in Go/C++/Java considered; blockchain experience highly desirable, especially transaction signing, key-management flows, wallet infrastructure, and onchain transaction lifecycles; bonus: EVM networks, smart accounts/account abstraction, bridges, DeFi, consumer fintech/payments/wallet products at scale, cross-chain indexing, large-scale data ingestion, Kafka, ClickHouse
Remote European Union only