Staff Backend Engineer, Aave App

#### How you can make an impact:

• Design, build, and operate backend services for Aave App across onboarding, funding, savings, withdrawals, portfolio data, and customer communications

• Build transaction-orchestration and indexing services that safely prepare, submit, monitor, and reconcile onchain activity across its full lifecycle

• Integrate with smart contracts, RPC providers, account infrastructure, payment partners, and other external services, designing for degraded dependencies and partial failure

• Lead technical reviews for high-value systems and improve testing, observability, alerting, incident response, and deployment practices across the backend codebase

• Work closely with mobile, web, product, design, protocol, security, data, and operations teams to deliver coherent consumer experiences

• Raise the engineering standard through hands-on delivery, pragmatic architecture, clear documentation, and review that helps other engineers grow

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#### Let's connect if you have:

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems

• Strong backend programming skills. Production experience with Rust is highly desirable, but we'll also consider strong systems experience in Go, C++, Java.

• Experience building distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive systems with clear reliability and performance requirements

• Strong knowledge of API/GraphQL design, PostgreSQL or another relational database, caching, queues, and observability

• Experience with blockchain systems, particularly transaction signing, private-key or key-management flows, wallet infrastructure, and onchain transaction lifecycles, is highly desirable.

• Strong judgement around threat modelling, sensitive data, permissions, and the operational risks of systems handling financial value

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#### Nice to haves:

• Experience with EVM-compatible networks, smart accounts, account abstraction, bridges, or DeFi protocols

• Experience building consumer fintech, savings, wallet, exchange, or payments products at meaningful scale

• Experience with cross-chain indexing, large-scale data ingestion, Kafka, ClickHouse, or similar infrastructure