# Senior Backend Engineer at Ellipsis Labs

Senior Backend Engineer at Ellipsis Labs in New York, New York. Full-time, paying $170k–$250k. Posted February 20, 2024.

- Company: Ellipsis Labs
- Location: New York, New York
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $170k–$250k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2024-02-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ellipsislabs/a6322c32-9142-4146-9429-bcf5cb52b3b7/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-ellipsis-labs-7xv5ys

## Requirements

- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (preferably in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code
- 3+ years of experience with Unix systems
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on relevant business context
- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
- Passion for decentralized finance

## Description

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies.
Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. As an early-stage startup, we appreciate bright generalists who can iterate and ship quickly. In this role, you will:

- Build and maintain scalable production services. We currently support thousands of QPS, and future systems will need to handle at least another order of magnitude.

- Implement systems to monitor performance at the micro- and nano-second level

- Drive ambitious engineering initiatives (for example, realtime data indexing at scale) from inception to completion: specification, architecture, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance

**Qualifications**

### **Required**

- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (preferably in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code

- 3+ years of experience with Unix systems

- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS

- Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on relevant business context

- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude

- Passion for decentralized finance

### **Preferred**

- Experience working with blockchain technology, specifically Solana

- Experience in quant trading or fintech

- Proficiency in Rust