Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fintech)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Fintech): Architecting and developing distributed systems for institutional customers, focusing on the creation and maintenance of products catering to hedge funds and experienced individual traders. Focus on designing and implementing foundational infrastructure components and mentoring team members on design techniques and coding standards.

Location: In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually.

Salary: $218,025—$256,500 USD

Company

hirify.global Institutional builds cutting-edge platforms that allow thousands of the world’s largest financial institutions to trade, custody, and participate in the global cryptoeconomy.

What you will do

• Architect and develop distributed systems.
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc).
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to have

• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers).
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.).
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres.
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period.
• Disability and Life Insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Wellness Stipend.
• Mobile/Internet Reimbursement.
• Generous Time off/Leave Policy.
• The option of getting paid in digital currency.