The self-custodial wallet for trading predictions, perps, and tokens across Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Robinhood, HyperEVM, and more. Backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
Staff Backend Engineer who blends systems thinking with product pragmatism and a real passion for crypto. You’ll design, maintain, and evolve the backend services and APIs that connect Phantom Cash to blockchains. You understand both client-server architecture and blockchain protocols, and you know how to balance reliability, quality, and speed. You communicate clearly across pods, document rigorously, and elevate the engineering bar through execution and mentorship.
What they're looking for
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Pragmatic engineering mindset, focuses on results and user impact, not abstract purity
- Proactive and outcome-oriented: anticipates problems, pushes features to completion without waiting for perfect specs
- Strong communicator and pragmatic problem solver - explains complexity simply, favors progress over perfection
- Node.js / NestJS at scale, event-driven design (queues, retries, idempotency)
- REST API architecture: versioning, pagination, error models, authentication, rate-limiting
More about this role
Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Tens of millions of people all over the world use Phantom to access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins and memes. Phantom users are able to discover the markets that matter and the cultural moments that shape them, building conviction through real-time data and the verified performance of top traders. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets them control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide.
Phantom has reached #1 in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories. Phantom partners with many of the most trusted and influential names in finance like Hyperliquid, Stripe, Kalshi and Visa, to make the most popular and innovative financial products accessible to everyone.
We are around 180 people, fully remote, backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.
Staff Backend Engineer who blends systems thinking with product pragmatism and a real passion for crypto. You’ll design,...
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