Senior Software Engineer, Orders

Blockchain.com; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the digital assets space is seeking a Senior Back-End Engineer. You will be instrumental in developing financial products and services, advocating best practices, and ensuring system security. Join a dedicated team and impact millions of users with your expertise in backend development.

Benefits

Full-time salary based on experience

Meaningful equity

Hybrid model working

Work from Anywhere Policy

Unlimited vacation policy

Qualifications

• At least 7 years experience in backend systems.
• Experience with JVM based languages and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate APIs for product applications.
• Optimize existing systems for scalability and performance.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Scala

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Tools

Datadog

Amplitude

Grafana

BigQuery

ApacheSpark

Job description

Blockchain.com is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

We are looking for software engineers from a variety of technical backgrounds with a proven track record in building scalable, reliable and performant systems. You will play a critical role in building financial and crypto-native products, services and APIs.As a Senior Back-End Engineeryou should lead by example - driving the technical discussions, influencing the approach and making a positive impact on the team's development by advocating the best engineering practices.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• You will be part of the Brokerage - Orders team who enable buy, sell and swap of crypto
• Develop and integrate APIs from new and existing services, to our various product applications.
• Become a key member of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users
• Advocate best practices, code quality, test coverage and drive technical discussions
• Optimise existing systems for scalability, extensibility and performance whilst building out reusable, modular code for use across Blockchain’s products
• Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data
• Work within interdisciplinary teams to continually deliver the highest quality software to our users

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• You know at least one programming language in depth
• You have at least 7 years experience building and shipping highly-available, fault tolerant, production ready distributed backend systems
• You have experience in any JVM based languages (such as Java, Kotlin, Scala) and are confident in your ability to build, debug and ship microservices
• You are customer focused and continuously suggest how the backend can provide the best Customer Experience
• You pride yourself on consistent high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation and effective monitoring
• Preferably exposure to technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis
• We use Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, Grafana, BigQuery, ApacheSpark and more
• Have a basic understanding of reactive systems using CQRS and event sourcing. A bonus would be experience using Akka.
• A passion for crypto and the transformations it enables

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• Hybrid model working from home & awesome office location in the heart of London
• Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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