Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kaleido is an engineering-driven company that helps large financial institutions build and scale blockchain-powered solutions. The Senior Backend Engineer will design, build, and scale infrastructure for enterprise blockchain and digital asset platforms, working across various technical disciplines to enhance system performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Designing and building scalable backend services and APIs in Go
- Developing infrastructure and platform tooling for blockchain nodes, custody systems, tokenization workflows, and digital asset platforms
- Building and operating cloud-native microservices architectures in Kubernetes-based production environments with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability
- Working closely with protocol, product, and infrastructure teams to integrate new blockchain networks, protocols, and platform capabilities
- Improving engineering velocity through CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, internal tooling, and operational best practices
- Collaborating with highly technical engineers across backend, protocol, DevOps, and infrastructure disciplines
- Evaluating and leveraging modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and tooling where appropriate across development and operational processes
- Participating in technical architecture discussions and helping shape engineering standards, scalability decisions, and long-term platform design
- Staying current with developments across blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and backend engineering practices
Skills
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building scalable distributed systems in production environments
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- Strong experience with Go (Golang)
- Experience designing and operating microservices architectures in cloud-native environments
- Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tooling
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, APIs, concurrency, and backend architecture patterns
- Experience operating and troubleshooting high-scale production systems with a focus on reliability and performance
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently drive technical solutions from design through implementation
- Ability to learn quickly, navigate ambiguity, and work across a broad technical surface area
- Strong communication with team members, stakeholders, and customers
- Experience working with blockchain infrastructure, RPC systems, validators, or node operations
- Experience integrating with EVM-based chains, Ethereum tooling, wallets, custody systems, or tokenization platforms
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with TypeScript or Python
- Experience with observability tooling, distributed tracing, and production monitoring systems
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows, automation tooling, or AI infrastructure integrations
- Open-source contributions or experience working with developer platforms and SDKs
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