As a Senior Back-End Engineer, you will be responsible for the backend infrastructure, performance, stability, and scaling of user-facing dApps. You will work closely with smart contract, protocol, and front-end engineers, as well as DeFi strategists and AI Researchers. You will bridge the constraints posed by web-scale applications, AI applications, and blockchain technology. As an early employee, you will be a critical part of our core team and significantly influence the company’s direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI endpoints and support infrastructure for proprietary models.
• Maintain the backend infrastructure for Volume’s Defi dApps, Bots, and AI models.
• Work with LLMs (e.g., Llama3) to enhance AI capabilities with user-specific context.
• Develop and maintain data management dashboards for user interaction and context control.
• Maintain services and scripts for the marketing team infrastructure with Mixpanel, Storyblock, and Discourse.
• Write high-quality, reusable, and well-tested code to meet our company goals.
• Demonstrate security and secret management across numerous services.

Requirements

• Excellent JavaScript skills
• Excellent Python skills
• Degree in Computer Science
• Experience with Nodejs, Docker, DBMS technology including postgresSQL and SQLlite and caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcache
• In-depth understanding of the Python software development stacks, ecosystems, frameworks, and tools such as Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Dask, spaCy, NLTK, sci-kit-learn, and PyTorch.
• AI/LLMs: Experience with large language models and prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with blockchain governance or enthusiasm to learn.
• Team player and are comfortable reviewing others’ code and implementing feedback from others on your work.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Comfortable with asynchronous written communication, synchronous video calls, pair programming, etc.

Nice to have

• Good Rust skills
• Proficient knowledge of Go

$175,000 – $300,000 a year