# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Money Movement) at Phantom

- Company: Phantom
- What the company does: The self-custodial wallet for trading predictions, perps, and tokens across Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Robinhood, HyperEVM, and more. Backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://phantom.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/phantom/01acfd54-49c2-4913-a968-fc70fcf61e12
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/phantom-senior-software-engineer-backend-money-movement/

## 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

Tags: Engineering