Morpho - Staff Backend Engineer
Requirements
• 8-10+ years of backend development experience in production TypeScript/Node environments. • Hands-on experience with GraphQL APIs and relational databases, especially PostgreSQL. • Experience working on a backend-for-frontend stack, or collaborating closely with frontend teams to serve product data. • Track record operating production systems at scale: reliability, observability, and performance under real load. • Strong interest in the Web3 ecosystem and comfort learning the DeFi domain. • Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where priorities shift. • Strong ownership and autonomy: takes responsibility for outcomes end-to-end. • Clear and crisp async communication: writes well and keeps distributed teams aligned. • Team-first mindset, low ego.
Responsibilities
• You will build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services and APIs that power Morpho’s consumer and business-critical features. Depending on your experience level, this role may include ownership of entire backend domains, mentoring other engineers, and driving cross-team impact. • Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL, delivering reliable, low-latency user-facing experiences. • TypeScript/Node • Model data, evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL) and optimise for correctness, performance and maintainability. • Collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk, and security teams to ship end-to-end outcomes. • Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems: focusing on observability, incident response, reliability, and operational excellence. • Simplify systems: reduce complexity, pay down tech debt, standardise patterns. • (For more senior levels) Drive cross-team initiatives, sponsor technical design, mentor engineers, and become the go-to owner for critical backend domains. • What Success Looks Like • First 30 days: • Ramp up on our APIs, data flows and deployment practices; ship a safe, user-visible improvement. • Establish clear async communication and collaboration habits. • Within ~4-6 months: • Within ~4-6 months: • Own delivery of scoped features end to end; propose and land architecture improvements. • Improve reliability through enhanced observability, testing and incident management. • Within ~12 months: • Within ~12 months: • Become a trusted owner of a key backend domain with a multi-quarter roadmap. • Consistently deliver high-impact features, resolve complex cross-team problems, and help raise the team’s standard on reliability, performance and operational excellence. • Competencies & Traits • Thrives in a fast-changing remote-first environment and picks up new context quickly. • Strong bias for action, ownership mindset and first-principles problem-solving. • Excellent written and async communication across time zones; team-first collaboration and low-ego approach. • Genuine curiosity for crypto/Web3 ecosystems and continuous learning mindset.
Benefits
• Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article here. • Remote (Europe only, from GMT to GMT+2 to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team). • We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook: navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You'll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about our values: morpho.org/jobs. • The mission of this role is to build and own the backend systems that power Morpho's consumer-facing products: reliable, performant APIs and data pipelines that serve accurate financial data to users at scale. • We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning. • Equal Opportunity • We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.
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