Lead Backend Engineer

September 18, 2026

Remote

Lead

Description

Asset infrastructure project bringing assets to the Canton Network, including cETH, a 1:1 representation of ETH on Canton. The team is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to build institutional execution and settlement infrastructure from the ground up: liquidity aggregation, order routing, and atomic on-chain settlement. The role is non-custodial by design and hands-on, with the backend written in Go and the on-ledger part running on Canton. As the first engineer dedicated to the product, you will own its delivery end-to-end and later help hire and lead the engineers who join.

Responsibilities

Own the execution and settlement backend end-to-end, from design through production operation
Turn the architecture into a working system: services, APIs, asynchronous workflows, data models
Design for correctness, fault tolerance, idempotency, and observability
Integrate with the Canton Network: transaction submission, settlement flows, ledger event processing
Set the engineering practices for the project: service boundaries, reviews, testing, long-term maintainability
Work directly with the CTO on technical decisions and with the founders on priorities and trade-offs
Onboard and lead the engineers who join the team

Requirements

Strong backend engineering experience in production systems
Strong experience with distributed systems
Strong proficiency in Go
Experience designing, building, and owning backend services end-to-end
Strong understanding of APIs, databases, asynchronous processing, and service-to-service communication
Ability to reason clearly about consistency, reliability, failure modes, and system boundaries
Experience leading a project or a small team, or a clear readiness to do so
Ability to work autonomously in a remote team: plan own work and surface problems early
Ability to explain decisions and trade-offs clearly in writing and keep the team informed
Comfort taking reviews and disagreement as part of the job
Comfort working directly with founders and being accountable for outcomes
High ownership and comfort operating in an early-stage environment
Nice to have: experience in crypto, blockchain infrastructure, exchanges, trading systems, wallets, custody, or settlement-heavy products
Nice to have: experience with order routing, RFQ, liquidity aggregation, or institutional connectivity
Nice to have: experience building financial or transaction-heavy systems
Nice to have: experience with functional programming languages (Haskell, OCaml, Scala, F#, etc.)
Nice to have: experience with Python for internal tooling, automation, or supporting backend services
Nice to have: pragmatic use of modern AI tools to improve engineering productivity and development workflows

Conditions

Full-time
Remote

GoCantonDamlAPIsdatabasesdistributed systemsblockchain infrastructure / fintechPythonHaskellOCaml

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