Senior Software Engineer

zerohash; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Maternity & Paternity leave

WeWork Membership

WFH Yearly Stipend

L&D Stipend

Job summary

Zero Hash is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago to help architect and build new features and scale the gateway to Finance 2.0. You’ll work on an event-driven microservices stack, focusing on Golang services, with strong emphasis on resiliency and scale.

You will collaborate with platform engineers, respond to production incidents, and communicate with client tech teams as needed. This role offers high impact in a fast-growing FinTech infrastructure company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably in FinTech.
• Deep proficiency with Golang and building scalable systems.
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the company’s vital business by contributing to the design and development of software in an event-driven microservices environment.
• Develop microservices in Golang
• Work with platform engineers to setup new services
• Respond to production issues and alerts
• Communicate directly with client technical teams when necessary

Skills

Golang

SQL

Problem solving

Verbal & written communication

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

About The Job

Zero Hash is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build new features, as well as scaling the gateway to Finance 2.0. We are a high performing team looking for an equally ambitious and driven teammate.

The right candidate for this position is detail oriented, deeply technical, and driven. You are eager to learn new technologies and complex systems. You build resiliency and scalability into the platform at every step.

If you're looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find this role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the company’s vital business by contributing to the design and development of software in an event-driven microservices environment
• Develop microservices in Golang
• Work with platform engineers to setup new services
• Respond to production issues and alerts
• When necessary, communicate directly with client technical teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience, preferably in the FinTech space
• A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and in your element going from 0 to 1
• Excellent problem solving skills - can troubleshoot complex systems
• Deep Proficiency with Golang.
• Understanding of SQL and database schema design
• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear hypotheses and solve problems without well-defined direction
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience at a banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as a service, payment-as-a-service business
• Experience with digital assets

Benefits

We believe a happy, motivated, and healthy team is the best way to succeed. We offer the following benefits:

• Chance to earn equity
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• WeWork Membership
• WFH Yearly Stipend
• L&D Stipend (after 6 months)

About Zero Hash

Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.

Our thesis is very simple: every financial services firm will offer digital assets within the next 2 years and will do so through platforms such as Zero Hash. Zero Hash is defining the new FinTech vertical of digital-assets-as-a-service.

Clients include MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, Tastytrade. Backed by Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, Tastytrade.

The Zero Hash Culture

All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and make a difference every day.
• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.
• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
• Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.