Morpho - Staff Backend Engineer

• 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.