Senior Backend Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Moderate value score due to niche role requirements, unique opportunity to influence stablecoin services while working in a dynamic environment.
- Lead creative video projects to enhance financial services marketing.
- Work in a flexible environment with a dynamic team.
- Engage in projects that contribute to redefining finance.
Pros
- Work on meaningful projects that democratize finance.
- Dynamic and creative environment allowing significant input.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge financial technologies.
Cons
- Niche role may limit outreach to specific candidates.
- Startup culture may lead to unpredictable workloads.
- Requires self-motivation and adaptability.
Who it's for
Mid Level • Remote
Good fit
- Experienced video & motion designers.
- Creative individuals passionate about financial technologies.
- Professionals wanting to contribute to impactful projects.
Not recommended for
- Candidates looking for stability in corporate structures.
- Individuals uncomfortable with remote and flexible work.
- Those without experience in video production or editing.
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Location
Anywhere
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Altitude
About Squads
Squads is a financial technology company building products and APIs for the stablecoin economy. We build on open infrastructure, global money and internet capital markets to deliver better financial services to every business, individual and developer.
Our Products
Squads Multisig: The premier multisig platform for Solana.
Altitude: A global business account to save, earn and move money.
Fuse: A personal finance app for stablecoins and tokenized assets.
These three products are powered by our stablecoin infrastructure and developer platform: Grid.
Our investors include Haun Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Toly, Mert, and others.
Altitude is our self-custodial business account for global companies. It offers USD/EUR accounts with routing numbers and IBANs, rewards, batch payments, corporate cards, expense management and more.
Altitude merges fintech and stablecoin infrastructure to deliver premium financial services built for a future that’s global by default and powered by autonomous finance.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to develop high-performance services in Rust. Altitude is a team at Squads building the modern USD account for global business.
What you will be doing
Build the backend services powering Altitude, working with a team shipping real products to real businesses.
Own entire domains from architecture to production.
Real-time settlement engine reconciling on-chain and off-chain transactions
Bulk payment APIs processing thousands of transactions per second
Card issuing infrastructure with instant spend notifications
DeFi yield integration abstracting complex protocols into simple APIs
Qualifications
5+ years backend experience shipping and operating production services
Strong Rust experience (or background in Go/C++ with willingness to dive into Rust)
Proven work with gRPC & HTTP APIs, service contracts and multi-service architectures
Solid PostgreSQL and Redis skills - schema design, performance tuning, debugging
AWS (ECS) and Docker expertise - containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform
Strong engineering fundamentals - observability, testing and benchmarking
Fintech or transaction-heavy systems experience
Solana exposure (RPC clients, transactions, on-chain concepts) - bonus
Why Squads
Build the future of open finance. You’ll help accelerate adoption of stablecoin‑powered solutions at a time when finance is shifting to programmable, borderless rails
Broaden your impact. Drive alignment, innovation, and results across teams and initiatives.
Modern tools and culture. Operate with high agency in a mission‑driven team that ships relentlessly and values craftsmanship.
Mission Focus. We don't hire people that need to be managed, we hire people that want to be led
Benefits
We’re offering competitive and generous compensation, with meaningful equity and upside.
Unlimited, flexible PTO
Flexible work schedule
Company laptop and allowance for any necessary home equipment
Two company-paid off-sites per year
Our Values
Kindness Matters. We show kindness and respect to all users, customers, and team members in every interaction (internal and external). Being kind compounds and strengthens our relationships.
Craftsmanship Excellence. We deeply care about the quality of everything we create. Every contribution, regardless of size, must meet our high standards for excellence.
Radical Transparency. We communicate openly and honestly with each other. Respectful candor is valued over comfortable silence, as we can't afford to miss insights due to fear of speaking up.
Bias for Action. We believe action produces information. At no more than 20% completion of a project we must have a working prototype to test and iterate on.
Speed with Purpose. We move with urgency and focus. Slow and expensive usually go together. Good, fast, and cheap outcomes are perfectly achievable through disciplined execution.
Professional Integrity. We never speak negatively about competitors, partners, vendors, or others. Such behavior reflects insecurity and provides no value.
Creative Problem-Solving. We value innovative thinking that challenges conventions. The best solution aligns with the task at hand, not necessarily with how things have always been done.
Team Over Ego. We share both successes and failures collectively. No individual's ego should surpass our commitment to the product and its impact.
Results Over Hierarchy. We do not care about titles in this company. No politics, no hierarchy. All we care about is winning together.
If you’re excited to help businesses access modern money rails and believe that stablecoins will democratize finance, we’d love to talk. Reach out to us
