Lead Backend Engineer (SVM) (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 Solana-focused backend engineer with proven experience building performant backends & infra for high-growth Solana products.

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 of backend development experience, with strong expertise in Rust and/or Golang.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Solana-based projects, including working with RPC nodes, Solana programs, and SDKs.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable backend systems using microservices architectures and event-driven systems.
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL and familiarity with NoSQL databases.
• Experience deploying and managing systems in AWS or other cloud environments, with knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that integrate seamlessly with the Solana blockchain, including RPC interactions, program deployment, and on-chain data management.
• Develop and document high-quality APIs for internal teams and external partners.
• Optimize system performance and scalability for Solana-integrated applications.
• Collaborate with the team to design and implement innovative blockchain-enabled features.
• Stay informed about advancements in the Solana ecosystem and contribute to strategic product development decisions.
• Manage infrastructure deployments and production systems in cloud environments.

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