Software Engineer, Backend (Trading)

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer at Phantom, you’ll play a key role in building the systems that power our trading experiences. You’ll design and implement APIs, data pipelines, and services that bridge the gap between blockchain infrastructure and the seamless, intuitive experiences our users expect.

In this role, you’ll focus on the implementation and aggregation of new trading protocols, aggregators, and trade types, as well as experimenting with new trading surfaces and user segments. Your work will directly shape the future of how users discover, execute, and interact with digital asset trades across multiple ecosystems.

• Feature development: You will be owning features on our web platforms – currently the Phantom Extension and our website.
• New initiatives and products: You will be leading initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom, and to launch new complementary products or infrastructure.
• Interfacing with users: You will be interfacing directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom – supporting them and collecting feedback to inform the direction of the product.
• Team building: You will be working with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years full-time software engineering experience
• Demonstrated interest in open and community-driven platforms
• Nice-To-Have: Experience working with trading systems
• English language proficiency

Why Work with UsWe are a team of experienced builders in the blockchain and crypto industry. Our journey began from users seeking an easy, seamless path to accessing the crypto ecosystem. This passion fueled our exponential growth, allowing us to onboard over 7M+ active users in just over three years; with our user base growing weekly. Our dedication to a secure and seamless user experience has made us the leading wallet on Solana as well as our multi-chain approach enhances our platform's versatility, meeting the needs of a diverse and growing user base. By staying at the forefront of technology and user expectations, we continue to innovate and set industry standards on self-custodial crypto wallets.

There has never been a better time to work in crypto to help shape the future of innovation with a focus around the wallet experience!

• First impressions matter: Wallets are responsible for a users first impression with crypto and onboarding new users into crypto. By ensuring that a user has a great first-time experience with crypto, we can help supercharge the growth of the entire ecosystem.
• Make crypto easier to navigate: There is no easy way for a user to discover and navigate all that crypto has to offer. Wallets have a unique opportunity to help users not only onboard to crypto but also stay retained by exploring new things to do.
• We live in a multi-chain world: We currently support Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin with more networks to come in the new future. We are focused on creating a unified, multi-chain crypto experience for users.