--- title: 'Staff Backend Engineer at Morpho' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-backend-engineer-morpho-paris-s6t42a08at0x' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Staff Backend Engineer at Morpho - **Company:** Morpho - **Location:** Paris, France - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-04-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/morpho/d420c03b-280a-4339-8f5f-2881de30eb0b/application **Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Relational Databases, Web3 > Build and maintain reliable, performant backend services and APIs for Morpho's consumer applications. The role involves developing TypeScript and Node.js features, designing GraphQL APIs, managing PostgreSQL data pipelines, and collaborating with frontend teams to deliver high-quality financial data. ## Job description ## About Morpho Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Apollo, Vaneck, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and 50 others to build an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing exponential adoption, with over billion in deposits on the network and used by institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, and Anchorage Digital and the largest crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as the open credit network, not just of DeFi, but of the world. ## Why Morpho Exists Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article [here](https://morpho.org/blog/why-morpho-exists/). Location Remote (Europe only, from GMT to GMT+2 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](http://morpho.org/jobs). ## Role The mission of this role is to build and own the backend systems that power Morpho's consumer-facing products: reliable, performant APIs and data pipelines that serve accurate financial data to users at scale. ## Responsibilities - Develop backend features using TypeScript and Node to deliver clear product outcomes for the Morpho Consumer team. - Design and evolve APIs (REST, GraphQL, …) and data models to expose accurate, secure financial data to the frontend with sub-second response times. - Operate and improve PostgreSQL-backed data pipelines to ensure performance, reliability, and availability as transaction volumes grow. - Collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product to scope, ship, and iterate on end-to-end features across the Consumer product. - Identify and implement architecture improvements: improving data processing, caching, and API layer design 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 First 30 days Ramped up on the Consumer API, codebase, and delivery practices. Shipped the first meaningful feature safely to production. Established clear async communication habits and collaboration rhythms with product and frontend peers. First 4 months Owns delivery of scoped features end-to-end. Identifying and starting to implement architecture improvements to the API and data processing layer. Contributing to higher reliability through better observability, testing, and incident response. In 1 year The go-to engineer for the Consumer API, with deep functional and technical context. Consistently delivering high-impact features and taking full ownership of architecture decisions within the Consumer vertical. Must-have Experience & Skills - 8-10+ years of backend development experience in production TypeScript/Node environments. - Hands-on experience with REST APIs and relational databases, especially PostgreSQL. - Experience working on a backend-for-frontend stack, or collaborating closely with frontend teams to serve product data. - Track record operating production systems at scale: reliability, observability, and performance under real load. - Strong interest in the Web3 ecosystem and comfort learning the DeFi domain. - Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where priorities shift. - Strong ownership and autonomy: takes responsibility for outcomes end-to-end. - Clear and crisp async communication: writes well and keeps distributed teams aligned. - Team-first mindset, low ego. - Humble. ## 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. ## About Morpho ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Morpho is an open, decentralized credit network that provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for businesses to build, embed, and scale onchain lending and borrowing products. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; last round: Series A+ led by Ribbit Capital) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Paul Frambot (Co-founder & CEO), Merlin Egalite (Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) / Onchain Lending Infrastructure - **Target Customers**: B2B — exchanges (e.g., Coinbase, Crypto.com), fintechs, banks, regulated institutions, and risk curators building lending/borrowing products. - **Mission Statement**: "Power human ambition with open access to capital." ## Products & Services - **Morpho Blue** *(Protocol/Infrastructure)*: A permissionless, immutable lending protocol with isolated markets (1 loan asset + 1 collateral asset per market). Serves as the foundation of the lending ecosystem. - **Morpho Vaults** *(Platform)*: Curated lending vaults that allow independent risk experts to build businesses around differentiated risk profiles, auto-allocating deposits across Morpho Markets. - **Morpho Optimizer** *(Optimization Layer)*: An optimization layer (now superseded by Morpho Blue) that initially improved interest rates for users on top of Aave and Compound. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held). - **Key Metric — Total Deposits**: Over $13B in deposits (as of early 2026), up from $5B during 2025. Active loans reached $4B+. RWA deposits grew to $400M by Q3 2025. - **Key Metric — Total Funding**: $69.2M in total funding across 4 rounds. - Seed (2021): $1.2M (while founders were still at university) - Series A (2022): $18M led by a16z crypto & Variant - Venture Round (2024): $50M led by Ribbit Capital - **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z crypto, Variant, Ribbit Capital, Pantera Capital. - **Notable Integrations (Business Customers)**: Coinbase (crypto-backed loans, its largest DeFi integration), Crypto.com, Gemini, Ledger, Lemon, Société Générale Forge, Bitget, and many other regulated institutions. - **Growth Signals**: User growth from 67,000 to 1.4M+ users (+2,000%+). Headcount grew 39.2% YoY to 52 employees, with 10 open roles in 2026. Expanding into institutional and regulated banking sector partnerships. ## Competitive Advantages - **Open & Permissionless but Secure**: Morpho is immutable, non-custodial, and permissionless, yet employs enterprise-grade security practices including tier-1 audits and a $2.5M bug bounty. Committed to formal verification. - **Flexible, Isolated Markets**: Unlike monolithic protocols (e.g., Aave), Morpho uses isolated, single-asset markets that can be composed into any risk profile, allowing depositors granular control over exposure. - **Liquidity Network Effect**: With $13B in deposits, Morpho provides the deepest onchain liquidity, creating a strong moat for attracting more builders and institutions. - **Top-Tier Backing & Adoption**: Backed by a16z, Variant, and Ribbit Capital, with integrations from the largest crypto exchanges globally — signaling trust and scalability. ## Strategic Focus - **Institutional Adoption**: Actively targeting banks, regulated institutions, and fintechs to embed onchain credit solutions. Société Générale Forge is a key strategic win. - **Real-World Assets (RWA)**: Growing the RWA deposit volume, which expanded from near zero to $400M in 2025. - **Geographic Expansion**: Operating in 12 countries (US, UK, Switzerland, Portugal, Singapore, NZ, etc.), with dedicated roles for APAC and Americas regions. - **Talent Acquisition**: Scaling the engineering and institutional sales teams aggressively, particularly for Protocol Engineers, Security Engineers, and strategic account managers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Values include "Justify Everything" (challenge all decisions with rationale), "Bias for Action," "Laser-Focused," and "Simplicity." The team expects high output but supports its talent with top compensation and autonomy. - **Remote-First with Global Offices**: Flexible work policy — remote or from their Paris headquarters. Remote employees get an allowance to visit Paris 3x a year. All employees have access to Spaces co-working offices globally (585+ locations). - **Compensation & Perks**: Base salary in top 10% globally. Full-time contributors receive MORPHO token grants. Health insurance worldwide. Professional development budget for courses and conferences. Relocation packages available for Paris. - **High-Impact Work**: Tackling fundamental problems in a nascent market — re-building the global credit system onchain. The engineering team is publicly highlighted as a core strength in the 2026 update. - **Hiring Process**: 3–6 weeks: (1) Talent Lead interview, (2) Manager interview, (3) Case study, (4) Co-founder interview. ## Sources 1. [morpho.org](https://morpho.org/) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/morpho-association) 3. [morpho.org/jobs](https://morpho.org/jobs) 4. [morpho.org/faq](https://morpho.org/faq/) 5. 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