Join Nexus as a Backend Engineer to build the infrastructure for a verifiable finance system in a remote role based in Latin America.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 1–8 years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, seniority, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Backend Engineer will focus on designing and developing backend services using Node.js and Rust for Nexus's Layer 1 and decentralized exchange. Key skills include experience with backend systems, API design, and familiarity with relational databases, alongside a solid understanding of distributed systems and blockchain technology. This position is suitable for candidates ranging from junior to senior levels, making it ideal for those looking to grow or lead within a dynamic engineering team. Nexus emphasizes collaboration across its cross-continental teams, fostering a culture of innovation in the financial technology space.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Nexus's career page.
- Nexus has 3 other open roles including Infrastructure Engineer (Contract – LATAM), Systems Engineer (Contract, LATAM), Head of Engineering (Contract - LATAM).
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Quick facts
- Is the Backend Engineer (Contract - LATAM) role remote?
- Yes — Nexus lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- 1–8 years of relevant experience for this Backend Engineer (Contract - LATAM) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, C++, Docker, Go, Kubernetes, Node.js.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Contract for this Backend Engineer (Contract - LATAM) role at Nexus.
From the original posting
About Nexus
Nexus is the engine for verifiable finance — a blockchain designed to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system. Built to support every major financial market on a single global exchange, Nexus unifies infrastructure that has historically been fragmented across chains and intermediaries.
Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, Nexus is proud to be a cross-continental team of engineers, cryptographers, and market builders. We’re investing deeply in the Latin American ecosystem — and always looking for world-class talent to join us.
Nexus is backed by leading investors, including Pantera, Lightspeed, Dragonfly, Faction, Blockchain Builders Fund, Alliance, and SVA, and works with more than 100 partners across the global finance and blockchain stack.
Location: Remote (Argentina)
Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months with potential for extension
The Role
The Role
We're expanding our backend engineering team in Latin America to build the infrastructure behind Nexus's Layer 1 and its native DEX. We're hiring Backend Engineers at multiple levels — from junior to senior — so if you build reliable, high-performance systems and care about the intersection of finance and decentralized infrastructure, we want to hear from you.
You'll collaborate with protocol, product, and frontend teams in San Francisco while contributing remotely from Latam
What You'll Do
Design and build backend services in Node.js and Rust for Nexus's Layer 1 and DEX.
Develop APIs and data pipelines for trading, liquidity, and on-chain verification.
Build and maintain blockchain infrastructure components (RPC endpoints, explorers, dev tools).
Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code that supports verifiable financial applications.
Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decisions based on your level of experience.
What We're Looking For
Experience building backend systems in a production environment.
Strong engineering leadership
Very solid systems knowledge
Strong experience developing backend systems in Node.js, Rust, C++, Typescript, Go or similar languages.
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) and API design.
A track record of shipping reliable software and improving the systems you work on.
Experience with distributed systems, financial infrastructure, or blockchain.
Excellent communication skills in Business English (spoken & written).
Levels We're Hiring
Junior 1–3 years - Solid foundations, eagerness to grow, guided ownership
Principal 8+ years - System design leadership, cross-team impact, mentorship, leading 5 Jr engineers in parallel and teams of at least 10 engineers
Bonus Points For
Low-latency systems
Experience with exchanges
Trading systems / financial environments
Familiarity with blockchain architectures, smart contracts, or consensus protocols.
DevOps experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS).
Web3 or DeFi protocol development experience.
Why Join Us
Build the backend systems powering the Layer 1 for Verifiable Finance.
Collaborate with experts across blockchain, AI, and financial infrastructure.
Shape the foundation for a verifiable, transparent, global trading system.
Thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact engineering environment.