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Senior Backend Engineer

📍 Location
New York
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 06, 2026

About the Role

About the Company

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building differentiated products and infrastructure in decentralized finance. The company is the developer of Phoenix, the leading order book spot exchange on the Solana blockchain, and a top 10 DEX (decentralized exchange) with >$70B in volume since inception in 2023. Additionally, we are one of the most active and prominent on-chain market makers in crypto.

About the Role

Ellipsis Labs seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Risk Engineering team. This team builds and maintains the liquidation engines that enforce solvency on our perpetual futures (perp) exchange. The role involves designing low-level systems that perform numerical calculations to trigger user liquidations when margin thresholds are breached, ensuring the exchange remains solvent during periods of high volatility.

We are looking for a staff-level engineer (5–10+ years of experience) who can...

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