About Octopus by RTG

Octopus by RTG is the tech hiring and outsourcing arm of Robusta Technology Group, dedicated to connecting exceptional tech talent with top-tier organizations across the MENA, GCC, Europe, the US, and Canada. We specialize in building strong, long-term partnerships between skilled professionals and innovative companies. Our mission is to empower growth, innovation, and excellence by matching the right talent with the right opportunities.

Job Overview

We are currently partnering with a strategic client in the UAE and are actively expanding their team. We are looking for a skilled Next.js Developer to lead the technical development of a web portal project.

In this role, you will be responsible for the technical design, development, and optimization of a scalable and high-performance portal. You will work closely with the Project Manager, Development Lead, Product Owner, and Scrum Master to ensure successful delivery of the project.

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Location: London (Office)

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $250K - $300K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is a high-growth development firm behind a market-leading digital asset launchpad. Operating at a massive scale with over $750M in daily trading volume and nearly $1B in revenue generated over the last two years, the organization maintains a lean, high-impact team of fewer than 100 people.

The environment is fast-paced, data-driven, and maintains a high bar for engineering excellence. Decisions are made through experimentation, bureaucracy is kept to a minimum, and engineers are granted end-to-end ownership of their platforms.

Our client is seeking a Senior Payments Platforms Engineer to own and scale the infrastructure backbone powering critical fiat-to-crypto payment flows. This is a senior technical contributor role designed for an expert who builds cloud-native platforms and defines engineering standards to enable high-velocity product teams.

The successful candidate will bring deep experience from a neobank, payment service provider (PSP), or tier-1 financial institution. This individual will be responsible for ensuring that cloud infrastructure remains reliable, scalable, and compliant under real-world financial constraints and rigorous regulatory expectations.

Location: Candidates based in Hong Kong or Singapore

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $160K - $240K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is seeking a Principal Software Engineer based in Hong Kong or Singapore to spearhead the design and evolution of core backend systems. This role is instrumental in driving the architecture of services powering wallet operations, transaction processing, and multi-blockchain integrations.

The successful candidate will lead efforts to ensure systems remains fast, reliable, and secure while scaling across global financial markets. Beyond technical implementation, this individual will guide architectural decisions, elevate engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers. The role involves close collaboration with product, security, and leadership teams to align technical execution with company priorities, ensuring infrastructure performs optimally under real-world financial workloads.

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Senior Software Engineer

Location: US or EU (remote-first, office optional). Must be in the US, not Canada or in the European Union. France or Paris or as close as possible, always preferred.

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $160K - $240K

Our client is an industry-leading organization comprised of experts in blockchain technology, cryptography, infrastructure, and security. The organization is currently developing the foundational wallet infrastructure for the next generation of global finance.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and scale core backend services for a high-performance platform. This role involves full ownership of critical projects—ranging from APIs and microservices to databases and developer tooling—ensuring all systems remain fast, reliable, and secure. Beyond hands-on engineering, this individual will contribute to architectural decisions, refine development processes, and ensure infrastructure resilience under real-world financial workloads. This position requires close collaboration with product, security, and leadership teams to transform complex requirements into elegant, production-ready systems.

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Senior Backend Engineer

Location: US or Europe (Must have solid overlap with EST)

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $150K - $200K

Our client is an industry-leading DeFi organization building the next generation of trading infrastructure. Operating as the largest builder-code product on a major decentralized exchange protocol, the company has processed over $65B in cumulative trading volume and generated eight-figure revenue over the past year. With a user base exceeding 400,000 registered traders, the platform is at the forefront of democratizing access to global financial markets across crypto, equities, and commodities.

The organization operates as a lean, highly technical team of individual contributors who prioritize autonomy, ownership, and rapid execution. This environment is designed for a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives in 0-to-1 environments and is capable of building ambitious systems from the ground up. This role is central to scaling trading interfaces that manage billions of dollars in daily volume while maintaining high-speed, intuitive user experiences.

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Location: San Francisco, CA, US

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: $170K - $230K•0.15% - 0.30%

A high-growth, venture-backed startup based in San Francisco is seeking an ambitious Full Stack Engineer to join their engineering-driven team. This is a role for an individual who thrives in high-stakes, fast-paced environments where code deployed one night is demoed to thousands the next morning.

Our client provides an agentic Operating System for sales that closes the loop between coaching and execution. Having recently secured a $15M Series A and experiencing 5x ARR growth year-over-year, the organization is scaling rapidly. The engineering culture is defined by radical ownership, speed, and technical excellence. The team is composed of former founders and high-achievers who prioritze impact over process.

This role is strictly on-site five days a week in San Francisco. It is designed for an engineer with "something to prove" who is looking to operate with massive autonomy during a period of hyper-growth.

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Software Engineer (Backend & AI Infrastructure)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $160K – $300K + Equity

Our client is a venture-backed technology firm based in San Francisco that is redefining the global research industry through AI-powered user interviews. By leveraging advanced AI-moderated technology, the platform enables global enterprises to achieve deep qualitative insights at unprecedented speed and scale. Currently serving world-class brands across the technology and consumer sectors, our client is disrupting a $140B market by replacing slow, high-cost legacy services with high-performance automated solutions.

Following a breakout year characterized by 8x growth, the organization recently secured a $30M Series B funding round led by top-tier Silicon Valley investors. The engineering team is currently scaling to support the rapid adoption of AI-moderated research as the new industry standard. This is a high-impact opportunity for a Backend Software Engineer to join a lean, elite team of 30 in San Francisco and take ownership of mission-critical infrastructure.

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Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure)
On-site | Full-time
Compensation: $140K-$200K (CA$190K – CA$280K)

We are building the open-source browser infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI agents. With over 6,000 GitHub stars and millions of sessions served monthly, our platform grew 50x in 2025 alone. We provide the "eyes and ears" for AI, allowing developers to ship products that interact with the web seamlessly via our API.

As one of our first ten employees, you will join a high-performance, talent-dense team of four. We are backed by world-class investors and focused on solving the hardest problems in distributed systems, from kernel-level debugging to global VM orchestration.

The Role

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will build and scale the distributed systems that power millions of browser sessions. Browsers are notoriously resource-heavy; your mission is to make them fast, ephemeral, and globally accessible. You will work across the stack, but your primary focus will be on the core infrastructure that ensures sub-second startup times and robust multi-tenant isolation.

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Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer)

Location: Toronto (Office)

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: $140K - $260K

Our client is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join a high-growth, talent-dense team building open-source browser infrastructure for AI agents and applications. The organization provides a foundational Sessions API that enables developers to ship AI products capable of seamless web interaction.

After experiencing 50x growth in 2025 driven by a vibrant open-source community and word-of-mouth adoption, our client is expanding their founding engineering team. This role sits at the critical intersection of product engineering, applied research, and community engagement. The successful candidate will not only ship production-grade code but will also conduct experiments to determine the most effective strategies for browser automation, subsequently translating those insights into frameworks and content that empower the global developer ecosystem.

This is an intensive, high-impact role suited for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and are comfortable owning projects from conception to deployment.

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Who we are;

Octopus by RTG is enabling a key partner organization to grow their tech teams while focusing on AI. We are currently looking for the right pioneers to join the team!

Octopus is proud to be part of the Robusta Technology Group (RTG), a leading tech group. With a decade of experience and a successful track record of delivering over 300 projects across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, RTG has established itself as a preferred employer in the Egyptian market. Octopus and Robusta are building a bridge between Europe and Africa, creating tailored hub solutions to connect companies with top talent across the globe.

Octopus is specialized in rapidly assembling remote & onsite global tech teams that are fully aligned with the culture and practices of a particular brand. By providing tailored hubs to suit its clients needs, Octopus gives companies all the advantages of remote work and offshoring without all the negatives.

You will be working with one of our partners in Saudi that is transforming the insurance industry in the Kingdom with smart, instant, and purposeful solutions