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title: 'Crypto Backend Engineer at SatoshiLabs'
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# Crypto Backend Engineer at SatoshiLabs

- **Company:** SatoshiLabs
- **Location:** Prague, Czech Republic
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/satoshilabs/0c7b45fa-6491-4db1-9534-784d5c3f7fcd

## Job description

We’re [Trezor](https://trezor.io/company), the company that invented the world’s first hardware wallet and a leading name in crypto security. Founded in 2013 and still 100% self-owned, we build open-source products that help more than two million people across 200+ countries secure their digital assets. As a Crypto Backend Engineer, you’ll work on the infrastructure connecting Trezor Suite to blockchain networks and crypto data services — powering everything from account discovery and transaction history to fee estimation, token metadata, and transaction broadcasting. You’ll build services that stay reliable even when blockchain nodes, RPC providers, or third-party APIs don’t. You’ll own your work end to end, influence architecture and observability, and help shape the long-term direction of Trezor’s blockchain infrastructure. You don’t need to know every blockchain we support on day one. What matters is your ability to understand unfamiliar systems, investigate how they behave under failure, and turn that knowledge into reliable production software. If this sounds like the kind of infrastructure you’d like to own, keep reading.

💪 What You’ll Be Working On

- Blockchain connectivity - building and improving reliable communication with nodes, RPC providers, explorers, and indexers across UTXO and account-based networks
- Blockbook development & maintenance - maintaining and actively developing Blockbook, an open-source blockchain indexer created by Trezor and used by major RPC providers such as QuickNode and NOWNodes
- Backend services - developing services for fiat rates, token and coin metadata, fees, and other crypto data used throughout Trezor Suite
- Third-party integrations - integrating and evaluating providers such as QuickNode while designing sensible caching, fallback, and routing strategies
- Reliability at scale - improving monitoring, logging, alerting, request optimization, and incident detection so users barely notice provider failures
- Architecture and ownership - contributing to technical decisions, architecture reviews, and infrastructure planning
- Security and collaboration - working closely with DevOps, Security, and product engineering teams to operate dependable and secure services

💪 About You

- You have production experience building backend services in TypeScript/Node.js or Go
- Experience designing, operating, and debugging APIs or distributed services
- Solid knowledge of SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and practical data modelling
- Ability to investigate failures across application, network, database, and third-party service boundaries
- Understanding of production observability, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic technical decisions
- Good written and spoken English

Nice to have:

- Experience with blockchain nodes, RPC APIs, indexers, explorers, or other crypto infrastructure
- Understanding of UTXO and account-based blockchain models
- Experience integrating third-party crypto-data services
- Familiarity with Docker, containerized deployments, caching, queues, or cloud infrastructure
- Knowledge of multiple blockchain ecosystems and their network protocols
- Open-source contributions

✍️ Our Stack

- TypeScript, Node.js, Go, PostgreSQL, Docker
- Blockchain nodes, RPC APIs, explorers, indexers, and third-party data providers
- Monitoring, logging, and alerting tooling for production services
- Git and an open-source development workflow
- Check out our [GitHub](https://github.com/trezor)

🤝 What We Offer

- A unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering, security-first company in the crypto industry
- A role where you can build, implement, and see the real impact of your work
- The chance to work in an open-source company where transparency, trust, and security are part of how we think
- A high level of ownership and freedom — you’ll have real influence over the architecture and reliability of our blockchain infrastructure
- Option to get paid in bitcoin
- Flexible working hours and a supportive team
- Budget for professional development, including training programs, courses, and workshops of your choice
- Friendly, open culture with regular company events and fun get-togethers
- Renovated offices with a gym, football table, billiards, PlayStation, 3D printer and free on-site parking
- Additional benefits such as a MultiSport card, company mobile phone tariff, massages, yoga, fitness classes, and more

👋 Sounds good? We’d love to hear from you: just submit your CV and tell us about something you've shipped that you're proud of. We’ll get back to you as soon as we review your application, most likely within a week.

## About SatoshiLabs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SatoshiLabs is a Czech technology holding company that creates hardware and software innovations in cryptocurrency and open source, best known as the creator of the Trezor hardware wallet.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, self-owned & independent)
- **Headquarters**: Prague, Czech Republic
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Marek “Slush” Palatinus, Pavol “Stick” Rusnák, Alena Vránová

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Cryptocurrency security, hardware wallets, blockchain infrastructure, peer-to-peer finance, open-source hardware design.
- Target customers: B2C (individuals seeking self-custody of crypto, bitcoin savers) and B2B (mining pool operators, developers needing blockchain indexers); strong focus on the bitcoin community.
- Mission or purpose statement: “To help you grab hold of your financial independence and digital security” – empowering individuals through self-sovereignty and decentralized finance.

## Products & Services
- **[Trezor](https://trezor.io)**: The world’s first cryptocurrency hardware wallet (Trezor Model One & Trezor Model T). Provides secure offline storage for private keys, supports multiple assets, and includes a touchscreen interface on Model T. Type: Hardware + companion software (Trezor Suite).
- **[Invity](https://invity.io)**: A cryptocurrency comparison and exchange platform integrated into Trezor Suite, allowing users to buy, sell, and swap crypto assets. Type: Aggregator / Service.
- **[Tropic Square](https://tropicsquare.com)**: An open-source, auditable secure chip design company. Aims to redefine hardware security with transparent chip manufacturing. Type: Hardware IP / Semiconductor.
- **[Vexl](https://vexl.it)**: A peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading mobile app that enables direct, discreet, and non-KYC transactions within local communities. Type: Mobile App / Peer-to-Peer Service.
- **[Slush Pool](https://braiins.com)**: The first Bitcoin mining pool (now operated as Braiins). Improves network efficiency, democratization, and security. Type: Service (mining pool).
- **[Trezor Blockbook](https://github.com/trezor/blockbook)**: An open-source blockchain indexer and search engine backend service for finding transaction information. Type: Open-source software / API.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at $12.4 M (per LinkedIn, likely reflecting the parent entity only; the group as a whole is larger). Total funding not disclosed – the company is self-owned and bootstrapped.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external institutional investors; funded through early pre-orders and organic growth. Partners include the broader Bitcoin open-source community and contributors to BIP39, BIP44, and Shamir Backup standards.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Employs 250+ people across 5 companies (Trezor, Invity, Tropic Square, Vexl, Slush Pool) and operates in 6 countries (Czechia, Slovakia, USA, UK, Georgia, Spain).  
  - LinkedIn reports 6,346 followers with 24% yearly growth.  
  - Continues to release new products (Vexl launched 2022; Tropic Square chip development).  
  - Maintains leadership in hardware wallet market share despite growing competition.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & standard-setter**: Created the first hardware wallet (Trezor) and co-authored industry standards BIP39 (mnemonic seed) and BIP44 (HD wallet path), which are now ubiquitous.
- **Open-source ethos**: All core firmware, software, and chip designs are open-source, enabling community auditing and trust – a rare transparency in security hardware.
- **Integrated ecosystem**: Products work seamlessly together (e.g., Trezor + Invity, Trezor + Blockbook), offering a cohesive experience from storage to trading to blockchain data.
- **Bitcoin-first + DIY culture**: Strong ideological commitment to self-sovereignty, no-KYC tools (Vexl), and resistance to institutional control, attracting passionate users.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: 
  - Expanding the Vexl P2P app to more countries.
  - Advancing Tropic Square’s auditable secure chip for use in Trezor and third-party products.
  - Deepening the Trezor Suite with DeFi and privacy features.
  - Maintaining independence and avoiding VC pressure that could compromise user privacy.
- **Growth direction**: Strengthen the “holding company” model where each subsidiary can innovate independently while sharing security expertise and the SatoshiLabs brand.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of Independence, Courage, and Integrity. Employees are empowered to take ownership, make decisions, and drive development without strict corporate guidelines.
- **Flexibility**: Remote-first environment – “office, home, beach” – with core hours alignment. Trust-based time off and focus on work-life balance.
- **Perks**: 
  - Option to receive salary in Bitcoin.
  - On-site gym, yoga classes, MultiSport card subsidy.
  - Stacked kitchen with snacks, coffee, fruit; regular breakfast AMAs.
  - Recreational areas with foosball, billiards, PlayStation.
  - Personal budget for conferences, workshops, courses; in-house language lessons.
  - 10 days paid parental leave.
- **Engineering culture**: Open-source contribution encouraged; developers work on wallets, blockchain indexers, secure chip firmware, and crypto protocols. Strong emphasis on security and cryptography.  
- **Open positions**: As of mid-2025, ~9 active roles including Product Manager, Senior Firmware Engineer, Cryptographer Team Lead, Security Compliance Manager, and more (see [careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/satoshilabs)).

## Sources
1. [satoshilabs.com](https://satoshilabs.com/)
2. [satoshilabs.com/careers](https://satoshilabs.com/careers)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/satoshilabs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/satoshilabs)
4. [satoshilabs.com/our-story](https://satoshilabs.com/our-story)
5. [linkedin.com/company/satoshilabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/satoshilabs/)

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