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title: 'Staff Backend Engineer at Superstate'
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# Staff Backend Engineer at Superstate

- **Company:** Superstate
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-11-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/superstate/381b3714-9e17-4190-973c-20f01bfadbb9

## Job description

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.

As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. You'll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.

## What you'll do

- Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance
- Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians
- Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent
- Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts
- Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
- Teach and mentor other engineers

## What you'll bring to the team

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience
- Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS
- Deep Rust experience
- Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites
- Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization
- Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
- Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset

Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

- Pulumi or Terraform
- AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave
- Cloudflare
- Postgres
- Docker
- Typescript
- Solana Programs
- Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges
- Solidity or Yul
- Foundry

## Benefits & Perks

- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.

Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.

## About Superstate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Superstate connects traditional financial assets with crypto capital markets by tokenizing securities for compliant, 24/7 onchain trading and settlement.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $82.5M raised Jan 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Robert Leshner (CEO), Jim Hiltner (Head of Business Development), Dean Swennumson (Head of Operations)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Financial services, blockchain infrastructure, asset tokenization
- **Target customers**: Institutional asset managers, private companies seeking to raise capital, and qualified investors in regulated jurisdictions (B2B primary, also B2C for investors)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Move funds and stocks onchain” – modernizing legacy capital markets through compliant, programmable, and transparent tokenized products.

## Products & Services
- **[FundOS](https://superstate.com/)**: A platform that helps asset managers launch tokenized funds on compliant rails, enabling 24/7 access, stablecoin integration, and DeFi utility. Includes SEC-registered transfer agency infrastructure.
- **[Direct Issuance Program](https://superstate.com/)**: A service allowing companies to raise capital by issuing tokenized equity directly to investors via a simple SEC filing, with onchain record keeping and instant settlement.
- **Flagship Tokenized Funds (USTB & USCC)**: Two institutional-scale tokenized funds that validated Superstate’s infrastructure before being transitioned to leading asset managers on FundOS. Not currently direct offerings but proof-of-concept for the platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company; PitchBook does not list post-money valuation in provided data)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $100.5M across three rounds (Seed $4M, Series A $14M, Series B $82.5M). Annual Revenue – $300K (likely early-stage, pre-revenue scaling).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: ParaFi Capital (Seed lead), CoinFund (Series A co-lead), Distributed Global (Series A co-lead and Series B lead). 26 total investors per PitchBook.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 70% YoY to 32 employees; LinkedIn followers grew 82% yearly; expansion to San Francisco and UK offices; Series B raised Jan 2026 signals strong investor confidence.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Compliance-first tokenization**: SEC-registered transfer agency with token-level permissioning, allowlisted wallets, and programmatic enforcement – differentiating from less regulated crypto-native projects.
- **Proven at institutional scale**: Flagship funds (USTB, USCC) operated on the same infrastructure before being handed off, demonstrating real-world execution.
- **Pragmatic approach**: Values “no-hype” practicality, building trust with regulators and partners in a sector often viewed as risky.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the FundOS platform to more asset managers and issuers, capturing the growing onchain capital market (already “hundreds of billions” and accelerating).
- Continue bridging traditional finance and DeFi, enabling peer-to-peer transfer and 24/7 trading within a compliant framework.
- Deepen partnerships with leading crypto-native and traditional VCs to scale the infrastructure globally.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Pragmatic, trusted, innovative, and professional – the team emphasizes tangible results, ethical transparency, and modernizing finance without hype.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – based in NYC (HQ at 205 West 28th Street) with an office in San Francisco. Remote flexibility not explicitly stated, but roles are listed as “Hybrid — Full-Time New York City”.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Head of Engineering Jon Walch (ex-Frax Finance, core engineer) leads a small, high-leverage team building the next generation of financial infrastructure. Engineers work on blockchain, smart contracts, full-stack, and infrastructure/DevOps.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Young company (founded 2023) with strong funding, rapid headcount growth, and a clear mission – offers early-stage impact with increasing stability.

## Sources
1. [Superstate Careers Page (Jobs)](https://jobs.lever.co/superstate)
2. [Superstate Website – Homepage](https://superstate.com/)
3. [Superstate Website – About Page](https://superstate.com/about)
4. [LinkedIn – Superstate Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/superstate)
5. [PitchBook – Superstate 2026 Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/530179-93)

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