Backend Engineer

**About:** Veda is the DeFi engine powering financial apps enabling platforms to seamlessly create on-chain yield products. Our mission is to unlock DeFi for the world by providing seamless, enterprise-grade integrations for modern finance. Veda's technology powers many of DeFi's largest vault products, including [](http://ether.fi) Liquid, PlasmaUSD Vault, Lombard DeFi Vault, and Mantle cmETH. At $6B in TVL and 100k+ users, Veda is one of the fastest growing DeFi protocols with a team passionate about DeFi and dedicated to our work. This role will be high impact and have the opportunity to directly shape some of the most critical infrastructure in DeFi. **Role:** We’re seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the core services powering Veda’s platform. You’ll work across a modern, service-based architecture to deliver reliable, performant systems that power yield products for some of the largest names in DeFi and fintech. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with a strong sense of ownership, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and experienced in taking products from concept to production. You’ll work 70–80% in code, contributing directly to system design, architecture, and implementation. ### Responsibilities: - Design and build scalable backend systems powering Veda’s API and internal services - Own projects end-to-end — from scoping and design to implementation, testing, and production delivery - Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to turn technical debt into modern, maintainable, and highly available systems - Write clean, well-tested code, and maintain strong CI/CD hygiene - Deploy, monitor, and scale services in production using modern cloud tooling (AWS, GCP, or similar) - Contribute to system design discussions covering performance, reliability, and data architecture - Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems - Continuously identify and drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and performance ### Qualifications: - 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience - Proven experience delivering production systems end-to-end (scoping → design → implementation → production) - Strong programming skills in Python or another modern backend language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, C++) - Solid understanding of REST APIs, relational databases (Postgres or MySQL), and service-based architectures - Experience with version control (Git), unit/integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines - Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) - Experience participating in an on-call rotation or owning production systems - Demonstrated ability to design scalable systems and refactor legacy components ### Preferred Skills & Experience: - Experience in fintech, crypto, or other high-availability systems - Familiarity with asynchronous task queues, event-driven architecture, or distributed systems design - Prior experience in startups or early-stage, high-ambiguity environments - Contributions to open-source projects or technical leadership on significant internal initiatives