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Lead Backend Engineer (Remote)

About us

Ambush is an AI company developing AI research & products that accelerate onchain adoption.

We’re building Web3’s first autonomous AI agents to simplify wealth creation & onchain safety.

We’re a lean & hyper performance-oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we run head-first towards seemingly impossible ideas. Our entire team is crypto-native & we have a shared North Star of solving web3’s hardest challenges.

Our team is led by one of crypto’s prominent anons, Psycho.

About the role:

We’re hiring a crypto-native backend engineer with proven experience building performant backends & infra for high-growth products that have achieved massive scale.

As our lead backend engineer, you will work directly alongside the CTO to help ensure that our infrastructure & backend is being built to support demanding requirements for performance, security, and scalability.

Because we are an AI company building onchain products, the ideal candidate has a strong general interest in DeFi, and uses LLMs such as GPT, Cursor, Co-pilot, or similar in their daily engineering work flow.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years using Golang in production environment
  • Crypto-native with prior experience building products in web3
  • Experience working with AWS cloud services (e.g., SQS, SNS, RDS, Aurora, Cloud Functions, Lambda)
  • Experience with microservices architectures and event-driven systems
  • Experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL
  • Hands-on experience with software engineering principles covering automation, testing, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud technologies
  • Familiarity with monitoring and analytics tools like Grafana
  • Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, resilient large-scale production applications in distributed environments

Responsibilities:

  • Write well-documented APIs for cross-functional teams to consume
  • Contribute to in-depth architectural decisions
  • Design, develop, and maintain microservices-based systems
  • Manage infrastructure using Terraform in AWS environments
  • Maintain a high-quality production environment using AWS services

Not required, but a strong bonus:

  • Prior commercial experience as a smart contract dev or security auditor
  • Strong Python skills

Why join Ambush?

  • Industry leading pay: strong base salary + uncapped profit share + equity
  • Lean & high-impact team; we hate bureaucracy & will not grow past ~10 people
  • One of the fastest growing AI companies in crypto
  • Proven leadership team with several acquisitions under their belt

Internal full-time hires only, no contractors or agencies

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