Backend Engineer

Axiom is building the future of retail trading. As more opportunities move onchain, our mission is to make discovering and trading assets fast, powerful, and intuitive.

Today, Axiom serves millions of users and facilitates more than $100M in daily trading volume. We are a small, fast-growing team based in Austin, with high ownership, urgency, and an obsession with exceptional products.

Set technical direction for Axiom's backend

Build and operate the low-latency APIs, indexers, and real-time pipelines behind the product

Own latency, throughput, and correctness for systems under constant write load

Design schemas and caching across Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse at high volume

Ship across chains - Solana, BNB, Ethereum, Base, and more

Debug production incidents across services, databases, and chain infrastructure

Improve fleet architecture while keeping systems simple and operable

Raise the engineering bar through strong judgment and mentorship