Staff Backend Engineer - job 1 of 2

About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to build an open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $10 billion in deposits on the network, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone, not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

Our Mission

Morpho’s mission is to power human ambition with open access to capital. Human ambition has no borders, but the capital to fuel it does. Today’s financial system is closed and fragmented. No one sees all opportunities, most overpay, and some are excluded entirely. We believe capital should flow efficiently to where it’s needed most — giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.

Location

Paris or remote (from -5 GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

How we work

We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook : navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You’ll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about our values: morpho.org/jobs.

Role & Responsibilities

Role

You will build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services and APIs that power Morpho’s consumer and business-critical features. Depending on your experience level, this role may include ownership of entire backend domains, mentoring other engineers, and driving cross-team impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL, delivering reliable, low-latency user-facing experiences.

• Model data, evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL) and optimise for correctness, performance and maintainability.

• Collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk, and security teams to ship end-to-end outcomes.

• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems: focusing on observability, incident response, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Simplify systems: reduce complexity, pay down tech debt, standardise patterns.

• (For more senior levels) Drive cross-team initiatives, sponsor technical design, mentor engineers, and become the go-to owner for critical backend domains.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days:

• Ramp up on our APIs, data flows and deployment practices; ship a safe, user-visible improvement.

• Establish clear async communication and collaboration habits.

Within ~4-6 months:

• Own delivery of scoped features end to end; propose and land architecture improvements.

• Improve reliability through enhanced observability, testing and incident management.

Within ~12 months:

• Become a trusted owner of a key backend domain with a multi-quarter roadmap.

• Consistently deliver high-impact features, resolve complex cross-team problems, and help raise the team’s standard on reliability, performance and operational excellence.

Competencies & Traits

• Thrives in a fast-changing remote-first environment and picks up new context quickly.

• Strong bias for action, ownership mindset and first-principles problem-solving.

• Excellent written and async communication across time zones; team-first collaboration and low-ego approach.

• Genuine curiosity for crypto/Web3 ecosystems and continuous learning mindset.

Must‑have Experience

• Senior Level: ~3-5 years building backend systems, working with GraphQL APIs and relational databases (especially PostgreSQL).

• Staff Level: ~8-10+ years of backend development, leading cross-team designs and shipping large ambiguous projects; deep strength in data modelling, performance optimisation and production operations.
  

Perks & benefits:

We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.

Ready to shape the future of finance?