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