Senior Engineer - Platform

We started small in 2011, with just two laptops and big aspirations. Fast forward to today and we have grown to serve over 4 million clients across the globe, who benefit from our commitment to security, transparency and regulation. Whether it’s through our intuitive web and mobile apps or arsenal of industry-leading APIs, Bitstamp is where crypto enters the world of finance.

Our success is a result of the innovative ideas, talented individuals, and passion of our team. Together, we have helped shaped the crypto industry and continue to do so. We are always on the lookout for new talent and crypto-curious thinkers who share our passion for the future of finance.

As a Senior Engineer you'll join a Platform Team  who are passionate about building and operating our core services and frameworks for building applications. We are looking for engineers that will help us grow our product offering by refactoring the most critical systems and unlocking scaling capabilities. 

We are a data driven, goal-oriented team with a mission to evolve our platform to deliver the ultimate trading experience for our customers and best developer experience for our engineers. 

This is an exciting opportunity to showcase different skills and experience and to learn a lot about fintech, trading, distributed architecture and high-performance solutions. 

Our tech stack is Python, Docker, Golang, MySQL, AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Kafka. 

The benefits of Life at Bitstamp 

• Work from home or other location that allows you to be most productive. 
• Generous home-office allowances upon joining to help set up your home space. 
• Incentives: Financial Rewards, Bitstamp Employee Annual Awards, Employee Incentive program (EIP) etc. 
• Sports and cultural activities, pet-friendly offices, a full fridge, teambuilding events, Bitstamp parties. 

What you'll do 

• Research architectural and code problems in current solutions, design new solutions and plan for implementation. 
• Design and build new solutions in Golang and Python and continuously operate them in production.
• Work daily to improve the stability and robustness of the platform and solutions; collect and analyze system metrics and act upon them. 
• Communicate with team members and technical stakeholders – infrastructure cloud engineers, security engineers and application developers.
• Review code and solution of other team members and contribute to solution designs. 

On day one you'll bring 

• Strong engineering background and development experience. 
• Expert knowledge in either Golang and Python and at least some experience with the other, with motivation to learn both.
• Experience or knowledge in designing scalable distributed web applications. 
• Experience with event driven architecture.
• Solid knowledge of backend development, including databases.