Back-End Developer

A well-established company revolutionizing the finance sector and active in the crypto space is looking for a Back-End Developer. The developer will get the opportunity to work alongside a highly skilled engineering team, along with designing and developing the next generation of scalable systems for the cryptocurrency platform. The NASDAQ-listed company is committed to building efficient technology that makes it easier for users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrency. The platform has managed to secure funding worth $545 mn+ so far. This role offers a long-term, full-time opportunity and requires at least 6 hours of overlap with the PST time zone.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to build meaningful and high-quality crypto-forward products and features
• Solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems
• Reconcile the constraints caused by web-scale applications and blockchain technology
• Help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe 
• Operate real-time applications with high frequency and low latency updates
• Handle the most secure, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud
• Build modern services to meet important business and product-focused needs 
• Design scalable systems to tackle challenging problems, leveraging on best-in-class cloud technologies
• Implement strategies and a long term vision for maintaining and scaling the back-end systems and teams 
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to visualize and implement quarterly, tangible roadmaps
• Write high-quality, well tested customer-oriented code 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant Golang experience 
• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering
• Track record of designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services
• Sound knowledge on composing a service-oriented architecture
• Proficiency with Ruby, Docker, Rails, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and MongoDB
• Previous expertise in payments, credit risk, or financial regulatory systems is desired
• Passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
• Prior startup experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks
• Expertise with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.)
• Competency in decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• Skilled at building financial, high reliability, or security systems