# Senior Backend Engineer - Transaction

About us: Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world. We have over $10B in assets under management and a team of 30 almost all technical staff. We’ve been profitable day one and are focusing on building real consumer applications. The future we envisage is true on-chain banking. Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards. You can view public analytics on Dune for Cash and Stake. Position overview: We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to own core parts of our card program: transaction processing, authorization and decline handling, disputes, and the services around them. You’ll work on a small team where engineers own problems end to end, from understanding why a user’s card was declined to shipping the fix and measuring whether it worked. Anything a neobank would build is on our roadmap. What you’ll do: Own core backend services for our card program, including authorization, clearing, refunds, and dispute flows Reduce user friction from card declines: find root causes in transaction data, work with our issuing partners, and ship fix

- **Id**: 456917
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ether-fi-backend-engineer-card-transaction-processing>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, Denver, United States, Cayman Islands
- **Countries**: US, KY
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-03T09:14:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T02:54:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 225
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2709
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Company events, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DeFi, Blockchain Infrastructure

## Company

- **Id**: 175614
- **Name**: ether.fi
- **Domain**: ether.fi
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ether-fi>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0.25
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 159
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 170000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DeFi** — Optional: yes
- **EtherFi** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 224

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Cayman Islands** — Iso: KY; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T09:56:33Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-10T01:57:06Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-09T21:15:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.729
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 224
- **Expected fill days**: 159
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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