About Axiom
Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive.
Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.
About the Role
Set technical direction for Axiom's backend
Build and operate the low-latency APIs, indexers, and real-time pipelines behind the product
Own latency, throughput, and correctness for systems under constant write load
Design schemas and caching across Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse at high volume
Ship across chains - Solana, BNB, Ethereum, Base, and more
Debug production incidents across services, databases, and chain infrastructure
Improve fleet architecture while keeping systems simple and operable
Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship
Minimum Qualifications
Deep TypeScript/Node or Rust experience (we run both)
Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
Experience building and operating backend services in production
Solid Postgres fundamentals and instincts for query performance
Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment
Preferred Qualifications
Low-latency, high-throughput systems where milliseconds are a product requirement
Redis at cluster scale, ClickHouse, or Kafka/Redpanda
Advanced Postgres: indexing, query plans, replication, partitioning, bloat
WebSocket fan-out, streaming, or event-driven architectures
Blockchain indexing or onchain data on Solana or EVM
Owning services in production: deploys, metrics, alerting, and incident response
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every qualification.
Compensation
Annual Salary: $320,000 - $465,000 USD
Skills Required
- Deep TypeScript and Node.js or Rust experience
- Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
- Experience building and operating backend services in production
- Solid PostgreSQL fundamentals and query performance knowledge
- Comfort working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment
- Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems where milliseconds are a product requirement
- Redis at cluster scale, ClickHouse, or Kafka/Redpanda experience
- Advanced PostgreSQL experience with indexing, query plans, replication, partitioning, and bloat
- WebSocket fan-out, streaming, or event-driven architecture experience
- Blockchain indexing or onchain data experience on Solana or EVM chains
- Production service ownership including deploys, metrics, alerting, and incident response
What We Do
Axiom Trade is an Austin-based retail trading platform focused on decentralized finance and onchain assets. Its mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive. Axiom supports trading across multiple blockchain ecosystems, including Solana, BNB, Ethereum, and Base, and says it serves millions of users while facilitating more than $100 million in daily trading volume for everyday consumers.
