Backend Engineer | Compliance Team (Remote)

You will be designing and building services with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security.

If you are excited about high-availability requirements, scalability problems, automated workflows, infrastructure orchestration, queueing systems, APIs and protocols like GraphQL and gRPC, our client is keen to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Building the most powerful, easy to use payment platform in the world.
• Delivering new features and enhancements to our platform.
• Working closely with the Frontend and Mobile Engineering teams to integrate frontend UI.
• Collaborating with product managers, designers, engineers, and other project stakeholders throughout the software development life cycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment, and support).
• Helping the team keep up-to-date with the tech stack ecosystem.
• Writing high-quality code with performance and scalability in mind.

Requirements:

• Bachelor or advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years working as a Backend Engineer.
• Fluent written and spoken English skills.
• Strong understanding of relational (preferably PostgreSQL) and/or non-relational databases (e.g., Redis).
• Strong understanding of web semantics.
• Knowledge of revision control systems.
• Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.
• Excellent communication skills and a team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams, and with a great attitude.
• Good to have:
• Experience in developing APIs for other products you’ve worked on.
• Developing software interacting with message queues (e.g., Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar, or RabbitMQ).
• Experience in integrating APIs from other service providers.
• Proven record of having worked with performance budgets.
• Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
• Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
• Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.