Lead Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure

Echoyield; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Free lunches

Flexible time off

Equity stake

Gym membership reimbursements

Team events

Job summary

EchoYield in Melbourne, Australia is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure to design, build, and scale our decentralized platforms. You will lead documentation efforts, document technologies for users, community, and developers, and guide content strategy alongside engineering teams.

The role emphasizes deep product understanding, cross-team collaboration, open source docs, and ensuring content quality while aligning with product goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a technical writer on complex products/ technical projects (preferably in blockchain space).
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills in English language.
• Experience owning the end-to-end documentation creation and management process.
• Experience and proven ability in self-managing a high volume of tasks, priorities, and set yourself high standard of accuracy, proficiency and precision.
• Experience in collaborating with a wide range of people, teams and community members.
• Client-focused, partnering approach with both our business leaders and engineers to deliver a first-class experience for all stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Document our technologies and product for diverse audiences including users, community, and developers.
• Design how content should be organized and presented for discovery.
• Measure documentation effectiveness and identify gaps in coverage.
• Improve content quality by gaining deep understanding of the product and technical details.
• Deliver content in formats including docs, blogs, public repos, and video content.
• Keep stakeholders informed of project status and resolutions.

Skills

Technical writing

Documentation management

Content strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

English writing

Self-management

Stakeholder management

Tools

CosmosSDK

Job description

We’re one of the world’s leading decentralized staking platforms. Join us on our mission to democratize access to financial opportunity.

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About us

About us

14K+ Active stakers

98% Rewards to users

Why Echoyield

What we're building for

Immediate Impact

Our goal is to create technology that delivers value right now. As part of the pioneering wave of decentralized financial tools, we’re making them available and accessible to all.

We thrive when we’re fulfilled and motivated. You’ll be part of a team of positive, forward-thinking individuals whose skills and vision have the power to make a real difference.

Cutting-edge tech

We’re bringing groundbreaking ideas to life across every layer of our product — from frontend development to smart contract architecture. Come learn and grow with us!

Health

We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage to keep you at your best.

Food

Delight in daily catered lunches and a variety of snacks throughout the week.

Vacation

Enjoy flexible time off so you can recharge and stay at your best.

Ownership

We offer significant equity alongside a competitive salary package.

Receive monthly reimbursements for fitness, wellness activities, and gym memberships.

Relaxation

Enjoy team events, offsites, and fun board game nights together.

Lead Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with engineering, product and research teams to understand and document our technologies andproduct (e.g. open source software documentation, API doc, user education content and etc), and providedocumentation and content to a fast growing set of audience including end users, community members anddevelopers.
• Design how existing and new content should be organized and presented to make content easier to understandand more discoverable
• Measure documentation effectiveness to identify gaps for areas of improvement
• Improve the content quality by obtaining both high-level and in-depth understanding of the product andtechnical details.
• Deliver content in various formats, including but not limited to written documentation, blog posts, publiccode repositories and video content
• Ensure that management and project stakeholders are well-informed of project status, including conflictsand resolution plans

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience as a technical writer on complex products/ technical projects (preferably inblockchain space)
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills in English language
• Experience owning the end-to-end documentation creation and management process
• Experience and proven ability in self-managing a high volume of tasks, priorities, and set yourself highstandard of accuracy, proficiency and precision
• Experience in collaborating with a wide range of people, teams and community members
• Client-focused, partnering approach with both our business leaders and engineers to deliver a first-classexperience for all stakeholders

NICE TO HAVES:

• Prior experience in crypto/finance industry
• Experienced as a technical writer on open source software
• Programming or other past technical experience

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and scale decentralized matching engine, risk system, and limit order book for blockchainprotocol using CosmosSDK along with its surrounding backend systems
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in navigating tradeoffs (architecture, timeline, etc.)
• Ensure best practices within the engineering team through guidance on architecture, code reviews,performance, testing, efficiency, and other engineering excellence improvements
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, researchers and product managers to turn requirements into productsand lead the execution end-to-end
• Mentor and develop junior engineers

REQUIREMENTS:

• 8+ years experience working as a backend software engineer
• Experience with trading system development at a mid/high frequency firm writing code to communicate withexchanges (i.e. order entry and low latency feed handlers)
• And/or experience working on exchange infrastructure, dealing with low latency order intake, risk checks,and matching
• Strong experience in a systems programming language and network programming knowledge
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures, excellent coding skills, strong CSfundamentals, and strong debugging capabilities
• Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies

Senior Product Designer

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the end-to-end design process, from ideation and prototyping to user testing and final implementation,ensuring a seamless and delightful user journey
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and other teams to design best-in-classexperiences for our users
• Design for our web, iOS, and Android platforms
• Contribute to our our design system and brand identity
• Ensure the products we ship are consistent with our design and branding standards
• Perform user research and use data to develop the right product strategy and solutions that delight ourcustomers
• Design marketing materials and partner with external contact design resources

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years of UX, UI, or product design experience
• Strong product sensibility
• Experience developing wireframes and prototypes
• Proficiency with Figma
• Proven experience building excellent consumer-facing mobile and web products
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates excellence and passion for product design
• You are an open-minded and accountable individual, who respects collaboration
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Bachelor's degree in a related design major or equivalent work experience

NICE TO HAVE:

• Interest in Crypto and or Blockchain technologies
• Interest in FinTech
• Interest in trading

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a dayworth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & WebsocketAPI endpoints
• Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the Echoyield protocol
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app aswell as programmatic traders
• Write open source TypeScript & Python clients that allow users to interactdirectly with our on-chain smart contracts
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product
• Architect performant and reliable backend systems
• Mentor and develop junior engineers

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years experience working as a full-time developer
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a good understanding of CS fundamentals
• You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've worked on high quality products in the finance or security space
• Interest in fullstack development. Experience building Web Services, SQL, CSS, React, Redux
• You have an strong interest in decentralized finance
• You have experience building blockchain applications / smart contracts
• CS Degree or equivalent experience

Software Engineer - Frontend

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a dayworth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & WebsocketAPI endpoints
• Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the Echoyield protocol
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app aswell as programmatic traders
• Write open source TypeScript & Python clients that allow users to interactdirectly with our on-chain smart contracts
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product

REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 2+ years experience working as a full-time developer (for new graduates, we require internshipexperience from a top tech company)
• You have a depth of technical experience and have demonstrated excellence through previous work
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code
• You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and 3 years of experience oralternatively, a Master’sdegree in same and 1 year ofexperience

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've worked on high-quality products in the finance or security space
• You have experience building blockchain applications / smart contracts

Staff Software Engineer

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints.
• Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the Echoyield protocol.
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders.
• Architect performant and reliable backend systems.
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
• Mentor and develop other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years experience working as a full-time developer.
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
• You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've worked on high quality products in the finance or security space
• You have experience building & operating complex, highly reliable distributed systems involving microservices and APIs
• An interest in full-stack development. Experience building and architecting backend Web Services, as well as Web or Mobile applications
• You have a strong interest in decentralized finance
• You have experience building blockchain applications, or smart contracts
• You have experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact