Backend Engineer (Exchange)

Pintu; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; USD 25.000 - 50.000; Full time

Job summary

PINTU is looking for a Backend Engineer (Exchange) to help build and maintain a state-of-the-art crypto exchange platform. This role involves developing solutions, unit testing, operational monitoring, and ensuring a low-latency system. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in back-end engineering, ideally with knowledge in fintech.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a back-end engineer.
• Experience in efficient application-level networking protocols.
• Experience writing clear technical documentation in English.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Business/Product requirements for the Pintu exchange system.
• Develop and unit test functional modules according to best practices.
• Collaborate with Developers, SREs, and QA Engineers on testing.

Skills

Go

Continuous Integration

Operational monitoring

Performance monitoring

gRPC

Code analysis

Job description

At PINTU, We are building the #1 crypto investment platform to focus on new investors in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. We know that 99% of new investors are underserved because existing solutions cater to the 1% who are pros and early adopters hence we built an app that helps them to learn, invest and sell cryptocurrencies in one click away.

We're looking for Backend Engineer (Exchange) tojoin inbuilding, operating, and evolving an error-free, low-latency, high capacity and throughput, next-gen Crypto Exchange, its back-end software systems that serve millions of customers (retail or institutional investors, B2B2C clients, market makers).

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will:

• Analyze Business/Product requirements and propose effective and efficient technical solutions in delivering changes and innovations to the Pintu exchange system landscape within expected parameters of cost, time, and quality
• Develop and unit test all functional modules created or modified according to software development best practices
• Develop and maintain the respective operational benchmarking and monitoring models for all landscape modules related to the Pintu exchange infrastructure
• Collaborate with other Developers, SREs, and QA Engineers to execute full-cycle integration, and functional and regression testing. Own and resolve all priority defects identified within the solution codebase efficiently and in a timely fashion
• Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through Development and Staging environments to deploy updates to the Production environment in a zero-downtime manner
• Provide on-call technical support during business and, occasionally, off hours depending on rotation
• Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement, and be proactive in bringing your ideas across

Who We Are Looking For

• A minimum of 3 years of experience working as a back-end software engineer
• Experience in building efficient and robust application-level networking messaging protocols for internal services communication
• Experience working in small focus teams of high-skilled developers
• Experience in writing clear technical documentation in English

Necessary Skills

• Solid hands-on experience in Go
• Hand-on experience with the Continuous Integration principles (unit testing, pull requests, GitHub, or any specific continuous integration engine like GitLab/Jenkins/etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience in building and operating back-end monitoring systems, which includes
  • Operational monitoring
  • Performance monitoring
• Understanding or messaging protocol engines and models (gRPC, Protobuf, Thrift, Avro, etc.)
• Knowledge HTTP/HTTP and web sockets is a plus
• Strong knowledge of code analysis and profiling techniques and tools

Preferred/Bonus Skills

• A minimum 1 year of experience working in the financial technology domain (exchanges, proprietary trading firms, banking, market makers, brokers, digital payments)
• Experience working with Application Containers and Container Orchestrators (example: Kubernetes or Nomad)
• Experience working with message broker technologies (for example RocketMQ, Kafka, etc.)
• Knowledge of Google Cloud and AWS Cloud Infrastructure and components (products)
• Good understanding or experience in Scrum methodology
• Understanding various trading models, types of trading, and rationale behind trading and market making
  • A solid plus goes to candidates that are doing any of the crypto trading (or any other asset classes) themselves on a private basis

Let’s Realise a Cryptocurrency Bank for Everyone!

We are building the #1 cryptocurrency bank for everyone to accelerate the transition to an open financial system

We have impacted many lives but there’s still plenty to do and we can’t do it alone. You can learn more about us

What is PINTU?
PINTU is a blockchain-based digital investment app that focuses on new investors. We have created a user-friendly app that helps new investors to learn, buy and invest cryptocurrency one click away.

Our agility and firm hold on our core purpose and values have allowed us to remain resilient and thrive through tumultuous times.

Learn more about PINTU here.