Junior Cloud / Backend Web3 Engineer - Remote

About Premia

Premia is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol specializing in options trading & swap aggregation for cryptocurrency assets. It aims to provide a on-chain, trustless, and non-custodial platform for users to trade & earn. Premia is at the forefront of building products that unlock value through efficient asset exchange, paving the way for the future of trading in open, global onchain markets.

Our products – the Premia Interface and the Archetype Interface – are powered by the Premia Protocol. With a user-centric approach, deep liquidity, and unparalleled capital efficiency, the Premia Protocol leads onchain option trading and brings institutional-grade derivatives to the DeFi ecosystem.

Joining Premia means being part of a team dedicated to revolutionizing digital asset exchange.

Who Are You?

A junior-level full-stack/backend engineer (Cloud veteran) with a solid background in financial applications and relevant backend technologies (e.g. Typescript, NodeJS, Python, databases, cloud services, network infrastructure, etc.). You are familiar with decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain (or complementary Layer-2 networks) such as Premia and Uniswap, as well as centralized crypto applications such as Deribit and Coinbase, and understand the backend technologies and cloud services often used by these projects.

You are passionate about building highly scalable, resilient, and performant software systems for the next generation of financial applications on the internet and have a wide set of skills and experience to execute on this. You understand the necessity for building dependable, scalable, and developer-friendly systems in order to support realtime financial applications.

You have experience and are culturally aligned with fast-moving small teams. You have worked in a remote (globally distributed) team before, preferably in a startup environment. You are self-driven, highly knowledgeable about building performant, scalable Cloud services, and can swiftly ship high quality software systems when needed. You can identify company priorities, own them, and iterate quickly to ship the best solution within aggressive deadlines.

You understand the necessity of thoroughly testing financial applications and the systems thereof before and after shipping any service to production. You have experience utilizing testing suites, CI/CD, and issue tracking systems to effectively maintain resilient production software at scale.

You can write and speak highly fluent English and have great communication skills. You work well in a team.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Responsibilities:
• Build highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems, with both serverless and cloud services.
• Design and implement software systems to ingest and supply complex on-chain data for fast, easy access.
• Design and architect backend REST and WebSocket APIs for scalable, realtime financial usage.
• Engineer large-scale data pipelines to drive insights into protocol performance and user behavior.
• Develop mission-critical bots or smart contracts that monitor blockchain state and user funds.
• Take advantage of best-in-class tooling to provide the highest quality services to our products.
• Collaborate with frontend team(s) to integrate backend services into realtime web3 applications.
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in code reviews to prevent technical debt.
• Mentor other engineers and evangelize best practices in a highly collaborative environment.
• Technical Skills:
• Exceptional proficiency in TypeScript, NodeJS, and relevant backend technologies (e.g. databases, cloud platforms)
• Understanding of Solidity, Python, Rust, and other backend programming languages
• Passion and experience for building complete software systems in production
• Experience working with containerized technologies such as Docker
• Familiarity with automated testing, DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines
• Strong fundamentals in computer science, software design patterns, networking, etc.
• Track record of delivering high-quality code with a focus on performance, security, and scalability
• Passion for DeFi, game theory, mechanism design, and other web3 concepts
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity tempered with humility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Self-starter with a desire to take ownership, learn new skills, and mentor others

Requirements

• Technical Expertise:
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in fintech or a related financial field
• 2+ years of software engineering experience in Typescript and NodeJS
• 2+ years of experience building scalable solutions on top of Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice To Have

• Professional experience in the Ethereum/web3 ecosystem
• Knowledge of cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, and other cutting-edge web3 technologies
• Open source software contributions, especially to major web3 projects
• 4+ years of university-level software engineering training and education
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with blockchain/web3 projects (including personal/hackathon)

Join Us

At Premia, we are a globally distributed, fully remote organization committed to building a more efficient, transparent, and decentralized future of markets. If you’re passionate about revolutionizing financial systems and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want to hear from you.

Apply now to be part of the future of onchain markets.