Senior Software Engineer

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