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    Senior Backend Engineer

    • Remote, Hybrid
      • Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Engineering

    Job description

    About Morpho

    Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to build an open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $10 billion in deposits on the network, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone, not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

    Location

    Paris or remote (from GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

    How we work

    We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook : navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You’ll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about our values: morpho.org/jobs.

    Mission & Responsibilities

    Mission

    The mission of this role is to build and maintain reliable, performant backend services and APIs that power Morpho’s consumer applications and business-critical features.

    Responsibilities

    • Develop backend features with TypeScript and Node to deliver clear product outcomes for Morpho’s consumer app.

    • Design and evolve GraphQL APIs and data models to expose accurate, secure financial data to the frontend.

    • Operate and improve PostgreSQL-backed data pipelines to ensure performance, reliability, and availability.

    • Collaborate with frontend engineers and product to scope, ship, and iterate on end‑to‑end features.

    • Identify and implement architecture improvements to simplify systems and reduce operational burden.

    • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues to maintain a high‑quality user experience.

    • Write clear, concise documentation and async updates to keep stakeholders aligned across time zones.

    What Success Looks Like

    • In your first 30 days

      • Ramp up on the Consumer API, codebase, and delivery practices. Ship first meaningful feature safely to production.

      • Establish clear async communication habits and collaboration rhythms with product and frontend peers.

    • By Month 4–6

      • Own delivery of scoped features end‑to‑end, improving both quality and speed. Propose and land targeted architecture improvements.

      • Contribute to higher reliability through better observability, testing, and incident response.

    • By Month 12

      • Become a go‑to engineer for the Consumer API with deep functional and technical context. Consistently deliver high‑impact features and help resolve complex, cross‑team problems.

      • Earn strong trust from teammates and hiring managers through ownership, clarity, and steady execution.

    Job requirements

    Competencies & Traits

    • Adaptability and ownership

      • Thrives in a fast‑changing, remote‑first environment. Picks up new context quickly and acts with autonomy.

    • Clear async communication

      • Communicates crisply in writing. Documents decisions and surfaces risks early across time zones.

    • First‑principles problem solving

      • Challenges assumptions, proposes simple solutions, and iterates quickly with a bias for action.

    • Team‑first collaboration

      • Seeks collective success, shares credit, and engages in healthy debate before aligning and committing.

    • Service orientation and reliability

      • Treats internal partners as customers. Builds dependable systems and follows through on commitments.

    Must‑have Experience

    • 3–5 years of backend development experience.

    • Hands‑on with GraphQL APIs and relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.

    • Strong interest in the Web3 ecosystem.

    • Experience collaborating closely with frontend teams or building backend‑for‑frontend layers.

    Perks & benefits:

    We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

    Equal opportunity

    We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.

    Ready to shape the future of finance?

    Morpho’s mission is to power human ambition with open access to capital. Human ambition has no borders, but the capital to fuel it does. Today’s financial system is closed and fragmented. No one sees all opportunities, most overpay, and some are excluded entirely. We believe capital should flow efficiently to where it’s needed most — giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.

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