Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

ZipRecruiter; New York (NY); Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform Team. In this fully remote role, you will work on core algorithms, data storage, and optimize features for scalability and performance. Candidates should have significant experience in Java and a collaborative mindset.

Benefits

Equity & Tokens

Performance Bonuses

Health insurance

401k for US employees only

Qualifications

• 5 years total and 4 years current experience with Java.
• Superior ability to create, analyze, and improve algorithms.
• In-depth experience with Java concurrency and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Developing, reviewing, and testing algorithms.
• Feature design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
• Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks.

Skills

Java

Algorithms

Data Structures

Concurrency

Problem-Solving

Communication

Adaptability

Job description

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionCareer Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team - this is a fully remote role and candidates need to be based in US/Europe.

About the role:

As a member of the Platform Team, you are fluent in algorithms and data structures. You are responsible for the core algorithms and data storage that make our ledger the fastest, most secure, and most efficient option out there today: gossip, consensus, state storage, etc. The Platform Team continually adds features that deliver for us and the community while increasing scalability and reliability and decreasing time to finality. You also work directly with the custom database designed for extreme performance that backs us and optimizes consensus node data storage techniques for both scalability and performance.

You may find yourself doing all of the following:

• Developing, reviewing, and testing algorithms

• Feature design, implementation, testing, and documentation

• Designing and implementing in-memory and on-disk data structures

• Analyzing and improving data flow and back pressure mechanisms

• Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks

• Innovating, designing, implementing, and testing new approaches to improve speed and scalability

Qualification Requirements:

• 5 years total and 4 years current experience with Java

• Superior ability to create, analyze, and improve algorithms

• In-depth experience with Java concurrency

• In-depth experience with data structures

• Experience with Java memory management

• Experience with data IO

• Strong problem-solving and reasoning skills

• Strong communication skills

• Collaborative mindset

• Adaptability

• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement

Other skills that are great to bring with you but that we can help you develop:

• Blockchain technology or DLT

• Distributed systems

• NetworkingTask-based architecture

• Discrete mathematics

• Merkle Trees

• Experience building a database from scratch

• On-disk data structures

• Java garbage collectors (ZGC, Shenandoah, etc.)

• Performance optimization

• JMH / Custom profilers

Compensation & Package

Equity & Tokens

Performance Bonuses

Health insurance & 401k for US employees only.