Jobs in Oakville, United States

At Figment, our mission is to create an Internet that is truly decentralized where users can freely interact, share, collaborate, and exchange goods and services in a trustless environment. We offer staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for token holders and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technologies. Together, we can build a better Internet.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to help grow the Core Indexers team.

The Core Indexers team delivers big data extraction and processing solutions with highly available APIs.

We're looking for someone who can learn new blockchain data structures and contribute to Figment's data processing infrastructure.

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

This role is unique because you get to work with many new blockchains and deliver blazingly fast APIs on huge amounts of data. This work helps people around the world to foster Web3 technologies. If you enjoy figuring out how new blockchains work and love solving distributed data processing problems, then this role may be a good fit for you. Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Create high performance indexing software to ingest data from blockchains
• Process big data collections and design fast-read data storages
• Develop indexing infrastructure with the rest of the Core Indexers team
• Design and implement HA APIs for large blockchain datasets

Qualifications

• Significant experience with software engineering and distributed systems
• Ability to write applications in Go
• Ability to reason about tradeoffs between different engineering approaches
• Familiar with data storage solutions (SQL/noSQL databases)
• Familiar with containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes

Nice to Haves

• Rust experience
• Experience with data processing
• AWS or other cloud infrastructure experience

Benefits & Impact

• A culture of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high growth environment
• Remote first teams working flexible hours
• Equity and bonus potential

About Figment

At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem. This is Figment’s unique approach: we make it simple to build on the next generation of blockchain technology.

We provide enterprise grade node and staking infrastructure and developer tools while also actively participating in community & governance.