# Senior Software Engineer, Trading Infrastructure

**Company**: Aptos
**Location**: Palo Alto, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150k - $250k
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aptoslabs/jobs/4720881005?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We're looking for a talented, driven Senior Software Engineer to build the critical infrastructure that powers trading on Aptos. This role will have significant impact and visibility - the systems you build will directly enable billions of volume on Aptos.

You'll work on APIs, indexers, node infrastructure, SDKs, and developer tools that form the foundation for trading and trading products. You'll help shape technical direction and may grow into leading other engineers as the team scales.

You should love solving hard distributed systems problems and have a passion for building robust, scalable infrastructure. You will be joining a lean team with a lot of autonomy – you should be a self-starter and thrive on self-directed work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

- Leading initiatives to design, build, and optimize backend services and platform infrastructure for the Aptos blockchain

- Developing scalable APIs, indexing services, and data pipelines to support trading data access

- Building and maintaining infrastructure for trading

- Writing clean, performant, well-tested, and production-ready code

- Collaborating closely with protocol engineers, infrastructure teams, and product engineers

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience building and shipping scalable backend systems

- Strong experience building backend systems in languages such as Rust, Go, C++, Java, Python, or similar

- Deep understanding of systems programming concepts

- Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, and API design

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment

- Experience with blockchain infrastructure, indexing, or node operations (a plus)

- Web3 experience or familiarity (a plus)

- Background in payments, DeFi, or TradFi (a plus)

- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and code quality

The base salary range for this full-time position is $150k - $250k.

Benefits:

- 100% insurance premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents (US Employees)

- Equipment of your choice

- Flexible vacation time, 11 holidays, and floating company days off

- Competitive Salary

- Protocol Token Grants

- 401k matching (US Employees)

- Fun and inclusive in-person and digital events

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- Go
- C++
- Java
- Python
- distributed systems
- databases
- API design

### Nice to have
- blockchain infrastructure
- indexing
- node operations
- Web3
- payments
- DeFi
- TradFi

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