About us
Ambush is an AI company developing AI research & products that accelerate onchain adoption.
We’re building Web3’s first autonomous AI agents to simplify wealth creation & onchain safety.
We’re a lean & hyper performance-oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we run head-first towards seemingly impossible ideas. Our entire team is crypto-native & we have a shared North Star of solving web3’s hardest challenges.
Our team is led by one of crypto’s prominent anons, Psycho.
About the role:
We’re hiring a crypto-native backend engineer with proven experience building performant backends & infra for high-growth products that have achieved massive scale.
As our lead backend engineer, you will work directly alongside the CTO to help ensure that our infrastructure & backend is being built to support demanding requirements for performance, security, and scalability.
Because we are an AI company building onchain products, the ideal candidate has a strong general interest in DeFi, and uses LLMs such as GPT, Cursor, Co-pilot, or similar in their daily engineering work flow.
Requirements:
- 4+ years using Golang in production environment
- Crypto-native with prior experience building products in web3
- Experience working with AWS cloud services (e.g., SQS, SNS, RDS, Aurora, Cloud Functions, Lambda)
- Experience with microservices architectures and event-driven systems
- Experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Solid understanding of PostgreSQL
- Hands-on experience with software engineering principles covering automation, testing, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud technologies
- Familiarity with monitoring and analytics tools like Grafana
- Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, resilient large-scale production applications in distributed environments
Responsibilities:
- Write well-documented APIs for cross-functional teams to consume
- Contribute to in-depth architectural decisions
- Design, develop, and maintain microservices-based systems
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform in AWS environments
- Maintain a high-quality production environment using AWS services
Not required, but a strong bonus:
- Prior commercial experience as a smart contract dev or security auditor
- Strong Python skills
Why join Ambush?
- Industry leading pay: strong base salary + uncapped profit share + equity
- Lean & high-impact team; we hate bureaucracy & will not grow past ~10 people
- One of the fastest growing AI companies in crypto
- Proven leadership team with several acquisitions under their belt
Internal full-time hires only, no contractors or agencies
Ambush
UK