We are looking for software engineers from a variety of technical backgrounds with a proven track record in building scalable, reliable and performant systems. You will play a critical role in building financial and crypto-native products, services and APIs. As a Senior Back-End Engineer you should lead by example - driving the technical discussions, influencing the approach and making a positive impact on the team's development by advocating the best engineering practices.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- You will be part of the Brokerage - Orders team who enable buy, sell and swap of crypto
- Develop and integrate APIs from new and existing services, to our various product applications.
- Become a key member of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users
- Advocate best practices, code quality, test coverage and drive technical discussions
- Optimise existing systems for scalability, extensibility and performance whilst building out reusable, modular code for use across Blockchain’s products
- Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data
- Work within interdisciplinary teams to continually deliver the highest quality software to our users
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
- You know at least one programming language in depth
- You have at least 7 years experience building and shipping highly-available, fault tolerant, production ready distributed backend systems
- You have experience in any JVM based languages (such as Java, Kotlin, Scala) and are confident in your ability to build, debug and ship microservices
- You are customer focused and continuously suggest how the backend can provide the best Customer Experience
- You pride yourself on consistent high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation and effective monitoring
- Preferably exposure to technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis
- We use Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, Grafana, BigQuery, ApacheSpark and more
- Have a basic understanding of reactive systems using CQRS and event sourcing. A bonus would be experience using Akka.
COMPENSATION & PERKS
- Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
- HMO on day 1
- Company laptop provided
- Work from Home setup
