About us:
Ether.fi is an innovative, rapidly growing crypto-native financial platform on a mission to put users in control of their wealth—making it easy to save, earn, and spend crypto. Positioned as a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) bank, ether.fi offers a fully integrated, non-custodial suite of products—Stake, Liquid, and Cash—that bridge crypto utility with real-world convenience.
With over $8B in assets under management and a lean, agile team of 25+, we’re building sustainable, secure, and scalable financial infrastructure to onboard the next billion users to crypto. Our offerings include liquid staking, automated yield strategies, and crypto-native payment solutions like credit cards, enabling a comprehensive decentralized banking experience.
As we continue to scale, we’re actively hiring talented, mission-driven individuals who want to shape the future of finance from the ground up.
Learn more atether.fi.
Position Overview:
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team and build a best-in-class product in the growing web3 space. In this role, you’ll be building and managing our core application, building the foundational pieces of our credit card offering, integrations with hundreds of DeFi protocols, our loyalty points program, and much more. You’ll be a key part of continuing to grow our TVL, running campaigns, and contributing your ideas. We are looking for someone who is a senior, driven engineer who loves solving complex problems, working with a tight knit team, and wants to have a lasting impact.
This role is based in Toronto and is in office 4x per week.
What you will do:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems using Golang.
- Manage and optimize relational databases, including PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability.
- Implement and maintain API services, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and optimized for performance.
- Design, develop, and maintain highly responsive, visually appealing web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Implement web3 technologies to enable blockchain functionalities such as transactions, wallet connections, and smart contract interactions within the DApps.
- Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness, while maintaining code integrity and organization.
- Collaborate with the product team to design and develop new features that enhance user experience and engagement.
- Apply best practices for code development, including automated testing, code review, and documentation.
- Stay updated with emerging trends in blockchain technology, security, and full-stack development to continually enhance our platforms.
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of related development experience with strong proficiency across the whole stack
- Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality.
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (DApps) is desirable, but not required. If you are interested in learning more about the space, please apply!
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering efficient and scalable solutions.
- Independence & ownership mindset. We are a startup, and we move extremely quickly. This means that things are not always organized, straightforward, or have all the answers figured out. The right person is extremely independent, able to figure out potential solutions without direct guidance, understanding and owning the entire problem.
- Communication skills. As a small, independent team, each member must be able to drive communication with the rest of the org, wrangling busy team members to come to a decision or to OK a solution.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
- Opportunity to work with a Top 4 Ethereum protocol, by TVL
- Opportunities for professional development and growth within the organization
- Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Collaborative and inclusive work culture
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space
- Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
- 4 weeks work from anywhere
- Exciting company events and team-building off-sites
Compensation Range: $120K - $200K
