Trading Engineer, Custody

BitMEX; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in cryptocurrency trading is seeking talented individuals to join their funds and wallets team. This role involves developing secure software for managing customer deposits and withdrawals in a high-uptime environment. The company values diversity and offers flexible remote work arrangements, allowing you to balance personal and professional life while contributing to a thriving ecosystem. Ideal candidates will have experience in Python, network protocols, and a collaborative spirit. Join a dynamic team that is committed to innovation and excellence in the crypto space.

Benefits

Work from home

Paid holidays and leave

Team building & offsite events

Beyond Border Remote Working policy

Option to be paid in fiat or crypto

Qualifications

• Several years of experience working with Python in a team environment.
• Familiarity with code-review and pull-request workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software for cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals.
• Improve test coverage and engage in test-driven development.

Skills

Python

Network Protocols

Test-Driven Development

Asynchronous Design

Defensive Software Security Practices

Tools

Docker

Numpy

Scipy

pytest

CI/CD

Job description

BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”.

Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies.

In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances.

The Wallets & Funds system powers the custody of bitcoin deposits, enabling many thousands of trading customers to make secure deposits as margin in our Trading Engine. Our systems are responsible for tracking deposits, creating withdrawals, and interacting with the base layer of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The Wallets team tracks our customers' deposits and withdrawals across millions of addresses on multiple chains. We lead on wallet and address format changes, and strive to participate in the wider crypto circle to follow and establish best practices for exchanges.

BitMEX is hiring for our best in class funds and wallets team to help us increase security and efficiency of our deposits, as well as onboard millions of new users in the years to come.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to credit customer’s cryptocurrency deposits and prepare withdrawals in a safety-critical and high-uptime environment.
• Improve test coverage of existing codebases as well as engage in test-driven development practices with the team.
• Assist in architecting new cryptocurrency and wallet infrastructure relying on modern standards and practices.

Qualifications

• Several years experience working as a team on a python codebase.
• Familiarity with a code-review and pull-request based workflow.
• Experienced with writing software that speaks a variety of network protocols, with awareness of appropriate threading/locking models, or asynchronous design to ensure correctness.

Good to have

• Shipping and deploying container-based software.
• Experience of handling large datasets in python, perhaps with numpy or scipy tooling.
• Transaction-level awareness of cryptocurrencies (scripts, signatures, utxo set, proof of work, fees, blocks).
• Use of type checked and code-formatted python, pytest and similar, CI/CD.
• Awareness of defensive software security practices.

Why BitMEX?

BitMEX is a place of intense work, fun, and diversity, all at the same time. We hire across different time zones, to support the growing demands and to bring in the best of the best talents across the world.

We are looking for individuals who are determined, responsible and collaborative to join BitMEX as we continue to build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem. We value attention to detail, speed and simplicity. As a global business operating a 24/7 exchange, we seek out those who are adaptable and can work across markets in a diversity team.

We provide flexible arrangements to our remote contract talents with:

• Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life.
• Paid holidays and leave so you won’t miss out any important events.
• Team building & offsite events to bring our global team closer.
• Don’t forget the advantage of our Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country.
• Option to choose to be paid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom.

Does this sound like the type of working culture you can thrive in? Apply online now!