Backend Engineer — Ultra-High-Performing Onchain Trading Systems

Highly Competitive Compensation + Token Allocation

Velvet (backed by YZi Labs) is building the fastest, most reliable DeFAI platform to trade any asset onchain — and we’re looking for a 10x backend engineer to take it to the next level.

You’ll design and scale core trading systems in Rust, NestJS, and Go, architect event-driven backends with Kafka, and make sure our infra runs like clockwork 24/7. This is not a “maintain what’s there” job — it’s build, optimize, and own everything that matters.

What You’ll Do

• • Design and scale ultra-low-latency backend systems in Rust, NestJS, and Go
• • Architect event-driven pipelines (Kafka or similar) that move data instantly and safely
• • Optimize onchain trading infrastructure — nodes, indexers, relayers, RPC tuning, MEV-aware execution
• • Own CI/CD, monitoring, and system reliability for mission-critical services
• • Experience in monitoring tools like Datadog, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, etc is plus
• • Ship constantly. Improve relentlessly

What You Bring:

• • 3-5+ years of backend experience (TypeScript, Rust, Go)
• • Proven track record with high-performance or onchain systems
• • Hands-on experience with trading infra, bots, arbitrage systems and blockchain data pipelines
• • Deep understanding of APIs, event streams, caching, and performance tuning
• • Obsession with clean, testable, and fast code

Who You Are:

• • You’re resourceful, relentless, and precise.
• • You think in microseconds, not milliseconds.
• • You don’t wait for specs — you build, test, and ship until it’s perfect.

You’ll work hard everyday, learn fast, and build something World-Class.

Join Velvet and help create DeFAI experience that never misses an opportunity.