Job Description
Summary
Key Responsibilities:
Development and Maintenance: Lead the development and maintenance of backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript. This includes writing clean, efficient, and scalable code.
API Design and Management: Design and manage RESTful APIs and integrate third-party APIs to support business processes and data exchange.
Database Management: Work with databases (SQL and NoSQL), including design, development, and optimization, ensuring data integrity and security.
Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize application performance, focusing on server-side logic, database interactions, blockchain interactions, and integration with front-end components.
Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices. Implement unit and integration tests to maintain high-quality code.
Collaboration with Frontend Developers: Collaborate closely with the frontend developers in the team to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
Troubleshooting and Debugging: Troubleshoot and debug applications, providing effective solutions to ensure minimal downtime.
DevOps and Deployment: Work with DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and cloud services (like AWS).
Security Practices: Implement robust security measures, including data protection and authentication mechanisms.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other team members, fostering a collaborative team environment.
Research and Development: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, and apply this knowledge to improve existing systems, particularly in back end engineering but also in the web3 & blockchain space.
Scalability and Maintenance: Ensure that backend systems are scalable, maintainable, and can support growth.
Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of the systems developed and ensure it's kept up to date.
Team Structure:
You will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary product development team, alongside front end / back end / test engineers, UI/UX designers, product owner and Web3 subject matter experts.
Company Culture:
Fully remote, global operation.
Agile work environment.
Strong emphasis on user-centric development.
Proud of the products we build, but always looking for improvements.
Career Development Opportunities:
Opportunities for rapid growth and advancement into roles with more technical responsibility or management positions.
Location:
100% remote
Timezone: flexible, but working hours must be in the range between 9AM and 10PM (UTC time).
Requirements:
Experience: 4+ Years of experience working as a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer.
Proficient in back end development: Experience with Typescript / Javascript for back end REST APIs, using frameworks like Express or NestJS, NoSQL and SQL databases, and REST API best practices.
Web3: Prior experience working in Web3 industry and interest in Web3 ecosystem, wallets & transactions, IDOs & ICOs, DeFi (staking, farming, liquidity pools), omnichain.
User-centric: Experience working on a user-centric product development environment.
Technical leadership: Experience mentoring and coaching other developers, fostering a quality and continuous learning environment.
Desirable:
Experience with payment platforms / providers or similar high risk environments.
Understanding of AWS infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar, or related education.
Benefits:
21 days of holidays / year + local bank holidays.
Sick days.
Budget for training / courses.
Budget towards purchasing work equipment such as laptop.
Salary
Up to $7000 USDC pm
Skills
- AWS
- Database Management
- Development
- Leadership
- Software Engineering
- SQL
- Team Collaboration
- TypeScript