Founding Senior Backend Engineer

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source

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Senior From the posting source

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5 days From the posting source

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About this role

Founding Senior Backend Engineer San Francisco | OnSite ABOUT US Our team includes builders from Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber and leading crypto projects like Rainbow, Xai, Ex Populus, and thirdweb. We move fast, stay lean, and obsess over shipping real impact not just prototypes. THE ROLE We are looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to lead the design and development of the backend infrastructure that powers the Button protocol a next generation agentic finance app built to give retail traders the access, tools, and capital efficiency that financial institutions have long taken for granted. Markets are moving faster than the infrastructure retail traders are allowed to use. Narratives reprice entire sectors in a week. Generational wealth is being created, but not for retail. Button exists to close that gap: unified collateral, portable margin, idle capital that earns by default, and accounts built with agentic financial workflows in mind. On Hyperliquid, a protocol can tap into liquid perp markets and new yield opportunities in ways that simply weren't possible before. That expanded design space creates a genuinely hard engineering surface area. In this role, you will lead all backend development for Button, working closely with the CTO to build the infrastructure layer that makes this new trading paradigm real. RESPONSIBILITIES - Drive the architecture, technical design, and implementation of Button's backend infrastructure - Build and maintain low latency indexing infrastructure (Hyperliquid operates at 70ms block times with full L4 book data, 100GB per day) - Build and maintain our offline and online

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