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About the Role

We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to work with a small, highly technical team building the infrastructure behind new DeFi protocols and vault products at Aave Labs. The role focuses on systems between onchain protocols and their surrounding applications, including vault management, allocation solvers, secure infrastructure, blockchain indexing, and APIs. You'll work on systems where correctness, reliability, performance, and security directly impact user funds and protocol integrity, with significant ownership and autonomy over offchain infrastructure interacting closely with smart contracts and onchain state. You will collaborate with Quant Engineers on financial models and Smart Contract Engineers on onchain integration.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure for new DeFi protocols and vault products
Build vault management, curation, and constraint-based allocation systems
Build high-throughput blockchain indexers and data-ingestion pipelines
Design performant, stable, and well-documented APIs for applications and internal systems
Work with Quant Engineers to turn reviewed models into reliable production services
Work closely with smart contract engineers on systems that consume onchain state and submit onchain transactions
Take technical ownership of projects and help maintain a high engineering standard across the team

Requirements

5-8+ years of backend engineering experience, including ownership of production systems
Strong experience with Rust. Experience with C++, Go, Zig, or another systems language can substitute
Experience building high-performance, data-intensive, or event-driven backend systems
Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
Experience with blockchain, DeFi, financial infrastructure, or another environment involving real capital
The ability to work independently in a high-autonomy environment
Strong judgment around correctness, reliability, and security

Skills

Rust
C++
Go
Zig
PostgreSQL
Blockchain
DeFi
Financial infrastructure
Cross-chain blockchain indexing
Large-scale data ingestion
Constraint systems
Optimization systems
Solver systems
Allocation systems
EVM-based protocols
Kafka
ClickHouse

Experience Level

Staff

About the Company

Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally?
We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech.
Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally.
We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.
We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it.
We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable.
We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.

Equal Opportunity

Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.