# Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer Location: New York, US Salary: $400K - $500K Our client builds and runs one of the most heavily used consumer crypto platforms in production today. Its systems are low latency and high throughput, and they run under constant load, where reliability and correctness are non-negotiable. The Team The Terminal team builds the real-time trading experience the platform’s most active users rely on. Speed, accuracy and uptime all matter. Behind the product is a backend that takes in on-chain and market data, processes it in real time, and serves it to a very large number of concurrent users, including during the busiest moments in crypto markets. A trading-firm background isn’t required. What matters is how you build and scale distributed systems, not where you learned to do it. What You’ll Bring Strong production experience building backend systems in TypeScript and Node.js Deep understanding of distributed systems: concurrency, partitioning, replication, consistency models, idempotency and failure modes Experience building and running real-time, high-throughput services under real load Hands-on experience with message queues and event streaming (e.g. Kafka, Redis S

- **Id**: 3836919
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/techchain-talent-senior-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T14:40:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:02:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1917
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Blockchain & Crypto

## Company

- **Id**: 4476923
- **Name**: TechChain Talent
- **Domain**: techchaintalent.xyz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tech-chain-talent>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.4
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 400000
- **Max**: 500000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 500000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **NATS** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **DeFi** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:20:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 500000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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