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About this role
Join Aave Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer to build infrastructure for DeFi protocols and vault products in a remote role. Collaborate with Quant Engineers and smart contract engineers in a highly technical team.
Description
Aave Labs built the Aave Protocol, the world's largest and most trusted onchain lending market. You will join a small, highly technical team building the infrastructure behind new DeFi protocols and vault products, working closely with Quant Engineers, who own the financial models, and smart contract engineers, who own onchain integration.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure for new DeFi protocols and vault products
- Build vault management, curation, and constraint-based allocation systems
- Build high-throughput blockchain indexers and data-ingestion pipelines
- Design performant, stable, and well-documented APIs for applications and internal systems
- Work with Quant Engineers to turn reviewed models into reliable production services
- Work closely with smart contract engineers on systems that consume onchain state and submit onchain transactions
- Take technical ownership of projects and help maintain a high engineering standard across the team
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of production systems
- Strong experience with Rust; experience with C++, Go, Zig, or another systems language can substitute
- Experience building high-performance, data-intensive, or event-driven backend systems
- Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
- Experience with blockchain, DeFi, financial infrastructure, or another environment involving real capital
- The ability to work independently in a high-autonomy environment
- Strong judgment around correctness, reliability, and security
Job Details
Market range (est.)$120k–$245k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedSep 25, 2026 (17d ago)
Tags & Skills
cryptodefiweb3fintechrwaBackend Developerremote
Tech Stack
RustC++GoZigPostgreSQL