Staff Backend Engineer

MLabs

Job Overview

Location

Texas, United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Staff Backend Engineer at MLabs, you will play a critical role in building and scaling autonomous trading infrastructure for a high-growth, venture-backed crypto company, ensuring the safety and reliability of systems that manage real-time agent behavior under extreme market conditions.
• Your work will directly impact the integrity of trading operations by preventing capital loss through robust design of core runtime systems, making this a high-ownership, technically demanding role with significant influence on product and platform evolution.
• Day to day, you will design and maintain the Hyperfeed data pipeline, enriching market data with open interest velocity, funding history, liquidation signals, and cross-asset flow detection through server-side computation at scale.
• You will develop and optimize the runtime execution layer, implementing serial signal processing, atomic state management, idempotent order submission, and real-time risk enforcement against live exchange state to ensure safe agent behavior.
• You will build and evolve the DSL exit engine, a two-phase trailing stop-loss state machine that protects open positions through exchange reconciliation, state recovery, and precise execution logic.
• You will extend the scanner subsystem by creating new scanner types, optimizing provider integrations, and wiring Hyperfeed signals into the confluence scoring system to improve agent decision-making.
• You will construct learning agent infrastructure that enables autonomous observation of trades, failure pattern detection, runtime improvement proposals, and self-initiated experimentation.
• You will lead efforts to scale the agent runtime from hundreds to tens of thousands of concurrent agents, addressing performance, reliability, and operational complexity at unprecedented levels.
• You will collaborate with a highly responsive, technically rigorous team focused on shipping correct, high-performance systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where precision and safety are paramount.
• You will operate in a culture that values pragmatic outcomes, bias toward correctness, and deep ownership — where your technical decisions directly shape the resilience and capability of autonomous financial agents.
• In this role, you will deepen your expertise in crypto-native systems, distributed trading infrastructure, and AI-augmented development while advancing your leadership in end-to-end system design under real-world financial constraints.
• You will achieve mastery in building systems that combine low-latency execution, strong consistency guarantees, and adaptive learning — positioning you at the forefront of autonomous agent engineering in decentralized finance.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience with crypto wallets, tokens, and/or trading systems
• Deep production experience with Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Deep familiarity with trading APIs, execution flows, and transaction lifecycles
• Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, complex systems end-to-end: problem definition → architecture → production
• Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments
• Direct experience building or operating crypto wallets, trading platforms, or execution systems
• Deep understanding of real-world market behaviour, volatility, and scale
• Strong intuition for how trading systems behave under stress
• Experience building high-throughput backend services
• Python experience (scanners and DSL components) is a plus
• Actively uses AI tools in development and iteration (must-have)
• Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response
• Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary ($175K - $225K)
• Meaningful equity (~1%)
• Performance-based bonuses tied to revenue and usage
• Token participation aligned with future protocol launch
• Remote work (US preferred), with strong preference for Austin, TX (office planned)
• Exceptional candidates in Europe will be considered

Skills & Technologies

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

Node.js

Backend

Senior

Remote

$175k-225k

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About MLabs

MLabs is a technology company specializing in the development and implementation of advanced laboratory automation solutions. They focus on creating intelligent systems that streamline complex laboratory workflows, enhance data accuracy, and improve overall efficiency for research and development, quality control, and clinical diagnostics. Their offerings often include robotics, AI-driven software, and integrated hardware designed to automate tasks such as sample handling, analysis, and reporting. MLabs serves a diverse range of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and healthcare, aiming to accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient outcomes through cutting-edge automation.

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