Staff Backend Engineer

Company Description

Anzo makes Bitcoin and money work for you. We provide an easy way to manage your digital cash and stack sats. With Anzo, you can buy, sell, and swap BTC and stable coins instantly, all through AI integration that adapts to your unique needs.

Role Description

This is a full-time hybrid role for a Staff Backend Engineer located in Hyderabad with some work-from-home flexibility. The Staff Backend Engineer will be responsible for back-end web development, software development, and programming activities. Tasks include designing and implementing server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end, and integrating front-end elements developed by colleagues into the application.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend systems that serve consumer-facing products at scale.
• Deep skill in at least one systems language like TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, Kotlin
• Someone who can lead and design end-to-end architecture
• Experience with crypto custody or MPC services e.g., Turnkey, Privy, onebalance.io
• Understanding of Bitcoin UTXO basics or stablecoin mechanics.
• Strong sense of ownership and leadership skills
• Strong command of async I/O, queues, retries, and state machines.
• Experience designing idempotent money movement flows (or equivalent critical workflows).
• Database fluency (Postgres, Redis) and data modeling for consistency (sagas, outbox, dedupe).
• Comfort with API design, schema versioning, pagination, and event streaming.
• Solid instincts for security, privacy, and compliance in sensitive domains.

Bonus

• Exposure to fintech/payments (ledgers, reconciliation, card rails, treasury systems).
• Prior work on policy/rules engines or joint/multi-party account flows
• Strong debugging chops: tracing, profiling, and fixing performance bottlenecks.