Role overview
Real-Time Systems Engineer
EngineeringOpen
Keep live subnet, validator, and wallet views accurate under bursty chain activity and flaky upstreams.
Remote · Full-time preferred · Contract for scoped work
Outcomes
- Design streaming and polling strategies that minimize stale reads without overloading RPC nodes.
- Own backpressure, reconnect logic, and graceful degradation when feeds lag or fail.
- Instrument latency and freshness SLOs so operators trust what they see on screen.
Baseline
- ·Experience building event-driven or streaming systems in production (WebSockets, SSE, or similar).
- ·Strong TypeScript and comfort profiling hot paths in browser and Node runtimes.
- ·Practical understanding of distributed clocks, ordering, and eventual consistency.
Plus:
Background with blockchain indexers, mempool watchers, or exchange-grade tick data.