Staff Full Stack Engineer

About Glider Glider is an onchain trading and portfolio automation platform. The team comes from 0x/Matcha, Coinbase, MetaMask, Cega, Supra, and PoolTogether. We raised $4M led by a16z CSX with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Ventures, and others. About the Role You will build end-to-end features for Glider with a 70/30 backend/frontend split using Node.js/TypeScript backend and Next.js frontend. This is an application/product engineering role, not a protocol engineering role — Solidity is at most ~5% of the job. The core of the work is backend systems around onchain trading: onchain transactions, indexing, and lending. Key Responsibilities - Lead the design and development of end-to-end features for the Glider flagship product, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and efficient - Design, build, and maintain the backend systems powering Glider's onchain trading and portfolio automation: onchain transactions, indexing, lending - Tackle unique challenges related to declarative trading and vertical solutions, bringing well-architected approaches to complex problems - Engage with every layer of the crypto/DeFi stack, from backend infrastructure to onchain swaps to frontend Web3 UX Requirements - 5+ years of software engineering experience at staff level, full-stack with clear backend depth (role is 70/30 backend/frontend) - Shipped professionally at a DeFi protocol or trading platform — personal onchain activity alone does not qualify - Core strengths in understanding onchain transactions, indexing, and lending; strong grasp of onchain trading (DEXes, AMMs, LPing, perps, etc.) - Strong expertise in Node.js (TypeScript) Bonus Skills - Solidity (not needed, at most ~5% of the job, but helpful) - Web3: familiarity with Viem/Wagmi, permissionless.js/pimlico, SIWE, ZeroDev Kernel Smart Accounts - Backend: GCP, AlloyDB, Axiom and Sentry; ability to work with Python-based solvers - Frontend: Next.js, tRPC, Tailwind and Radix UI, Zustand, react-spring, Vitest and Synpress