Staff Backend Engineer (Social)

Phantom is revolutionizing the way millions of people interact with the crypto ecosystem. Our self-custodial wallet offers a seamless, unified experience for managing accounts and tokens across Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon, empowering users with a single, convenient solution. By integrating cutting-edge security features and launching innovative tools for an enhanced personalized user experience, Phantom is able to provide a next-generation, safe and easy to use self-custodial wallet for everyone. This strategy has allowed Phantom to achieve significant milestones including surpassing 7 million MAU's, reaching #1 in the Google play store finance category, and consistently trending as a Top 50 app across all categories, right next to X, PayPal, Coinbase, and ChatGPT. RESPONSIBILITIES As a Backend Engineer, you will be at the forefront of designing and building the robust services that power our Onboarding and Fiat OnRamp products. You'll play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our backend systems and infra, with a focus on high-volume, high-availability solutions that meet the complex needs of modern financial platforms. Join us on our mission to make the digital economy safe and easy to use for everyone. Architect for Scalability & Performance: Build systems capable of handling millions of users, with a focus on high availability, low latency, and strong fault tolerance using AWS/K8s. Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide direction on best practices, code quality, and process improvements; mentor other team members. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable backend solutions. DevOps & Infrastructure: Contribute to infrastructure decisions (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging), ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient operations. Authentication & Security: Implement and maintain robust authentication, authorization, and security best practices within a highly regulated Crypto environment. New initiatives and products: You will be leading initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom, and to launch new complementary products or infrastructure. Interfacing with users: You will be interfacing directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom, supporting them and collecting feedback to inform the direction of the product. Team building: You will be working with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.

We are a team of experienced builders in the blockchain and crypto industry. Our journey began from users seeking an easy, seamless path to accessing the crypto ecosystem. This passion fueled our exponential growth, allowing us to onboard over 7M+ active users in just over three years; with our user base growing weekly. Our dedication to a secure and seamless user experience has made us the leading wallet on Solana as well as our multi-chain approach enhances our platform's versatility, meeting the needs of a diverse and growing user base. By staying at the forefront of technology and user expectations, we continue to innovate and set industry standards on self-custodial crypto wallets.