Backed by Index, Techstars and USV.
About the role
We are looking for a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-region backend platform. You will own critical shared infrastructure, including datastores, caches, messaging systems, and regional application services, and design systems that remain predictable during traffic surges, dependency failures, infrastructure changes, and partial regional outages.
What they're looking for
- 8 or more years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience designing and debugging distributed, high-throughput production systems
- Strong PostgreSQL experience, including query performance, indexing, connection pooling, replication, transaction contention, and failure modes
- Strong experience with Redis-compatible systems such as Redis, Valkey, Dragonfly, or KeyDB, including sharding, replication, memory management, hot keys, and failure handling
- Experience operating services on AWS, ideally using ECS, RDS, and ElastiCache
- Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
More about this role
fomo is a trading app for the rest of us. With fomo you can sign up in seconds and have instant access to any asset on-chain without the need for external wallets, bridges or prior knowledge. fomo has social features that are actually useful - follow top traders (with full access to their portfolio and trades) and find tokens early. fomo does all of this while providing the best-in-class execution and data for experienced traders.
In just over a year, fomo has onboarded over 2.5 million plus users who have collectively done over $14 billion dollars in trading volume.
fomo has made ~$68M of revenue since launching in May 2025, and has raised a total of ~$100M in addition from T1 investors. Investors include Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.
https://fomo.family/
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Want to learn more about the team, our growth, and life at fomo? Check out our Work at fomo page.
We are looking for a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-region backend platform.
You will own critical shared infrastructure, including datastores, caches, messaging systems, and regional application services, and design...
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