About the Project

Ethereal is DeFi’s next major trading protocol and the first built on Ethena. We're already at $700M+ TVL during prelaunch and on track to become a top 10 ecosystem. This is a rare opportunity to join a world class DeFi team.

Building within the ethena.fi ecosystem unlocks billions in USDe that can be used as collateralised margin, liquidity that will enable minimal slippage for traders. The infrastructure we’re building will handle over 1 million orders per second delivering CEX level performance, with on-chain security.

You’ll be part of an engineering-first team solving deep, complex problems that haven’t been tackled before. If you thrive in an environment about optimisation, distributed systems, and real-time performance at scale, this is your kind of challenge.

This is a remote team who work within AEST, all applications must be from timezones within GMT +7 and GMT+13.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help design and optimise the core infrastructure that will power a new era of decentralised trading. You’ll be working on high-throughput systems that redefine execution speed and efficiency in DeFi.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and implementing scalable, distributed backend systems to handle millions of orders per second.
• Optimising for latency and performance
• Working with event-driven architectures, real-time data pipelines, and high-throughput APIs.
• Collaborating with front end and protocol engineers to build an entirely new class of DeFi trading infrastructure.
• Ensuring fault tolerance, efficiency, and security across the platform.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Skills:

• Strong experience in backend development using Node.js & TypeScript building applications that have proven to scale
• Deep understanding of and experience with distributed systems - scalability, high availability, and performance tuning.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, AWS.
• Experience building or contributing to production DeFi or web3 projects.

Highly desirable:

• Prior work with real-time trading systems or large-scale on-chain applications/architectures
• Solidity/smart contract knowledge is not essential but a bonus.

Why Join Us?

• Fully remote (AEST ± 3 hours)
• Get paid on-chain (USD stables)
• Work alongside world-class engineers building core DeFi infrastructure
• Get early ownership in a protocol with $700M+ TVL and serious momentum
• Solve complex, technical problems with real user impact
• No politics - just sharp, curious engineers delivering fast

We’re also hiring:

Frontend DApp Engineers, Smart Contract Engineers, and DevOps Engineers - if you’re passionate about building the future of DeFi, let’s chat.

Apply below and attach your CV 👇

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