Staff Backend Engineer — ChainIT

Staff Backend Engineer

Remote (United States) · Individual contributor (no direct reports) · Full-time

Own the backend that every ChainIT product runs on. We're hiring our first in-house Staff engineer to take architectural stewardship of the ChainIT core platform — the ~25-service NestJS backend behind biometric identity, verified agreements, NIL payments, and on-chain asset tokenization.

About ChainIT

ChainIT is a private, US-based, blockchain-anchored digital-identity and biometrics platform headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Our mission is to create a zero-trust digital future, where every identity, action, and agreement is verified, not assumed. We prioritize Truth over Trust: every record we create is a Validated Data Token (VDT) — an immutable, tamper-proof record of *who, where, what, and when*, anchored on-chain and backed by 14+ granted U.S. patents and a growing IP portfolio.

One core platform powers our entire product family — ChainIT-ID (biometric KYC), ChainIT Org / KYB (business verification), Pactvera (biometric smart agreements), Sportafi (college-athlete NIL payments), Age App (privacy-first age verification), ChainITX (physical-asset tokenization), Touch Audit (tamper-evident audit trails), ChainIT Pay (embedded payments), and a developer SDK launched at Consensus 2025.

About the role

For five years, our core platform — the universal backend beneath every ChainIT product — has been built and run largely by an external development partner. As the platform has become core to the business, we're bringing ownership in-house, and you are the first in-house Staff engineer to own it.

You take architectural stewardship of the platform and become the accountable owner of its architecture, quality, reliability, and technical direction — serving every product team, not a single product, so one well-designed change compounds across the whole p...