Summary

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Notabene, you'll be pivotal in shaping how crypto transactions are securely cleared and settled at scale worldwide. You’ll be joining the transactions team, a critical component of the Notabene Platform responsible for the reliable processing of high-throughput transaction data globally.

In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain our core transaction-processing services, driving the platform's scalability, reliability, and performance to handle the growing volume and emerging crypto use cases.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in setting technical direction, mentoring team members, and ensuring our architecture is optimized to meet the needs of a constantly changing and fast-paced market.

What You'll Do

1. Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency microservices for our Transactions team, contributing directly to Notabene’s secure and reliable transaction authorization platform
2. Work closely with product, engineering, compliance, and customer-facing teams to gather requirements align on technical feasibility, and prioritize projects that maximize value to our customers
3. Develop and execute the Transactions team roadmap aligning with business priorities and strategic objectives
4. Scope and drive large-scale technical projects end-to-end, from inception through deployment, and delivering ongoing improvements to scalability and performance
5. Mentor and support engineers throughout the Notabene engineering organization

Must Haves

1. 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or staff-level backend engineering role
2. 3+ years of professional experience with Node.js, including building production-grade applications.
3. Strong experience with distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), including configuring and optimizing message flows.
4. Expertise in event-driven microservices development.
5. A proven track record in building and optimizing high-throughput, distributed systems
6. Extensive experience with PostgreSQL, SQL optimization, and architecting high-throughput transactional databases
7. Hands-on experience deploying and managing services on AWS, with a solid understanding of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
8. Strong understanding of security principles, particularly around secure data handling, encryption, and best practices in financial or transactional data systems
9. Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a global, remote-first company
10. Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and departments

Nice-to-Haves

1. Experience with Rust or Go is a significant plus.
2. Deep understanding of cryptography, including public/private key encryption and signing.
3. Knowledge of decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and DIDComm protocols.
4. Familiarity with low-latency NoSQL datastores.
5. Familiarity with distributed systems principles beyond Kafka, such as consensus protocols or distributed tracing.

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Cryptocurrency
• Database Management
• Development
• Problem Solving
• Software Engineering
• SQL