Senior Engineer - Platform Engineering

Bitstamp is the original Cryptocurrency Exchange.

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 that is passionate about building and operating our core services and frameworks for application development. We are looking for engineers who will help us expand our product offerings by refactoring our 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 the best developer experience for our engineers.

This is an exciting opportunity to showcase various skills and experiences while learning 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 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 using Golang and Python and continuously operate them in production.
• Work daily to improve the stability and robustness of the platform and solutions; collecting and analysing system metrics and taking appropriate action.
• Effectively 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 or Python with at least some experience in the other language and a 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.

Logistics 

• Hybrid working/full time in Slovenia.