Nexus
Backend Engineer Contract LATAM
$157,000 – $175,0001w ago
Nexus is the engine for verifiable finance — a blockchain designed to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system. Built to support every major financial market on a single global exchange, Nexus unifies infrastructure that has historically been fragmented across chains and intermediaries.
Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, Nexus is proud to be a cross-continental team of engineers, cryptographers, and market builders. We’re investing deeply in the Latin American ecosystem — and always looking for world-class talent to join us.
Nexus is backed by leading investors, including Pantera, Lightspeed, Dragonfly, Faction, Blockchain Builders Fund, Alliance, and SVA, and works with more than 100 partners across the global finance and blockchain stack.
Location: Remote (Argentina) Type: Contract Duration: 12 months with potential for extension
We’re expanding our engineering team in Latin America to strengthen quality and reliability across Nexus’s Layer 1 and its native DEX. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you’ll help build and maintain the automated testing infrastructure that ensures our trading, settlement, and blockchain systems are secure, performant, and production-ready.
You’ll collaborate with backend, protocol, and frontend engineers in San Francisco while contributing remotely from Argentina, helping ship high-quality financial infrastructure at scale.
Develop and maintain automated test suites for backend services written in Node.js and Rust
Build integration and end-to-end tests covering trading flows, settlement logic, and on-chain verification
Design test cases for APIs, data pipelines, and distributed system components
Assist in implementing CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment validation
Write performance and regression tests to ensure reliability under high-load conditions
Debug issues across services, reproduce bugs, and collaborate with engineers to resolve them
Contribute to improving test coverage, observability, and quality standards across the codebase.
1–2 years of experience in software development or QA automation (internships or academic projects count)
Experience writing automated tests using JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, or similar languages
Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress, or similar)
Basic understanding of APIs, databases, and backend systems
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Excellent communication skills in Business English (spoken & written)
Eagerness to learn about distributed systems, financial infrastructure, and blockchain technology.
Experience testing APIs or backend services.
Exposure to CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Docker, etc.)
Familiarity with blockchain fundamentals or smart contracts
Understanding of performance testing concepts and tools
Experience working in fast-paced startup environments
Build the backend systems powering the Layer 1 for Verifiable Finance.
Collaborate with experts across blockchain, AI, and financial infrastructure.
Shape the foundation for a verifiable, transparent, global trading system.
Thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact engineering environment.
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