About the company
Blockchain.com (formerly Blockchain.info) is a cryptocurrency financial services company. The company began as the first Bitcoin blockchain explorer in 2011 and later created a cryptocurrency wallet that accounted for 28% of bitcoin transactions between 2012 and 2020. It also operates a cryptocurrency exchange and provides institutional markets lending business and data, charts, and analytics.
Job Summary
We are looking for software engineers with a proven track record in building scalable, reliable and performant systems. You will play a critical role in evolving the Exchange gateway. This system must reactively and reliably deliver data between the core trading platform and front end applications, with low-latency requirements to meet SLAs.
Our engineering teams are involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, planning, execution and shipping. We are looking for software engineers who care about software excellence, are advocates of best practices and love learning new skills.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Build distributed, scalable and highly performant, (soft real-time) software to handle our rapidly growing user base using the most appropriate languages and tools Be a part of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency ecosystem building out a new set of financial services, systems and architecture Work extensively with open source technologies (Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL) 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 products to our users Optimize existing systems for scalability, extensibility and performance whilst building out reusable, modular code for use across Blockchain’s products
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
7 years of back-end experience with at least one JVM based language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala Tools and frameworks, which helps to deal with concurrency and distributed systems related issues, like Vert.X, Akka, Quarkus, Micronaut, etc The foremost quality for this position or any position at Blockchain.com is integrity You possess an innate curiosity, are a strong advocate for the best engineering practices and thrive on learning new technologies You have experience building and shipping highly-available, fault tolerant, low latency, scalable architectures (distributed systems) You pride yourself on consistent high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation and effective monitoring Understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases and large-scale systems An appreciation of the entire stack (including but not limited to front-end service-oriented architecture, message brokers, databases, network layers, etc.) and how they impact the performance of your application COMPENSATION & PERKS
Competitive full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an exciting, emerging industry Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it Crypto bonuses Performance-based bonuses paid in cash Apple equipment provided by the company Awesome office locations and remote working options