Backend Engineer
Axiom · Austin · $320k–$465k
The role
Axiom is seeking a Backend Engineer to set technical direction for its backend systems. The role involves building and operating low-latency APIs, indexers, and real-time pipelines, and owning latency, throughput, and correctness for systems under constant write load. The position requires deep TypeScript/Node or Rust experience and solid Postgres fundamentals.
- Pay
- $320k–$465k
- Location
- Austin
What we know that the posting doesn’t say
- Seen 1 day agostill listed on the employer’s careers page
- Posted 23 days agothe first time we saw it
About Axiom
Axiom is building the future of retail trading, making discovering and trading assets onchain fast, powerful, and intuitive. They serve millions of users and facilitate over $100M in daily trading volume.
What you would do
- Set technical direction for Axiom's backend
- Build and operate low-latency APIs, indexers, and real-time pipelines
- Own latency, throughput, and correctness for systems under constant write load
- Design schemas and caching across Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse at high volume
- Ship across chains including Solana, BNB, Ethereum, and Base
- Debug production incidents across services, databases, and chain infrastructure
Must have
- Deep TypeScript/Node or Rust experience
- Excellent programming and debugging fundamentals
- Experience building and operating backend services in production
- Solid Postgres fundamentals and instincts for query performance
- Comfortable working with high ownership in a fast-moving environment
Nice to have
- Low-latency, high-throughput systems where milliseconds are a product requirement
- Redis at cluster scale, ClickHouse, or Kafka/Redpanda
- Advanced Postgres: indexing, query plans, replication, partitioning, bloat
- WebSocket fan-out, streaming, or event-driven architectures
- Blockchain indexing or onchain data on Solana or EVM
- Owning services in production: deploys, metrics, alerting, and incident response
Key skills
- typescript
- node
- rust
- postgres
- redis
- clickhouse
- kafka
- redpanda
- websocket
- solana
- bnb
- ethereum
- base
- indexing
- replication
- partitioning
- streaming
- event-driven architecture
- deploys
- metrics
- alerting
- incident response
About Axiom Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive. Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-…
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