# Staff Backend Engineer

About usThe Vault, an MPC-based crypto custody platform for institutional and retail customers. We run threshold signing with non-extractable key shares across HSM and Ledger hardware, support a growing surface of chains and assets, and are pushing toward post-quantum readiness and SaaS-grade scale. Series A is ahead, the 2026 productized launch is in flight, and we publish original cryptographic research alongside the product work. About the role We're hiring a Staff Engineer to design, build, and ship the custody platform's hardest backend code. This is a hands-on IC role with real technical leadership: you write production code every day, own non-trivial cross-cutting initiatives, lead through RFCs and code, and mentor senior engineers - without managing people. You shape architectural decisions in your work area through code, RFCs, and design reviews. Platform-wide architectural ownership (technology stack, core/periphery boundary, deployment models, post-quantum migration) sits with our technical leadership - you contribute to those decisions strongly, but you don't own them. If you want a role with the architecture-function hammer, this is not it. If you want a role where you

- **Id**: 3744420
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/wise-wolves-corporation-staff-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: unspecified
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T12:44:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:23:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8350
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Wealth Management & Financial Advisors, Asset Management & Funds, Accounting & Bookkeeping Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4461236
- **Name**: Wise Wolves Corporation
- **Domain**: wise-wolves.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/wise-wolves-corporation>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: PeopleForce

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
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- **Cursor** — Optional: no
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- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **NATS** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Bitcoin** — Optional: yes
- **Cosmos** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Ledger** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: yes
- **Solana** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T12:44:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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