About the company
Founded in 2019, Cake Group (“Cake”) is one of the fastest growing digital assets innovators. Cake empowers investors to generate returns on their digital assets through decentralized finance (DeFi) services and applications in a secure and transparent way. Cake operates four core businesses, including its retail arm, Bake, and its institutional arm, Levain. Birthday Research is our research and development arm, while Whisk is our venture capital arm. Bake is a one-stop platform that provides retail investors easy access to DeFi services and applications, empowering them to generate returns on their cryptocurrencies in a secure and transparent way. Levain offers institutions a secure gateway to DeFi, empowering them to personally manage their digital assets through self-custodial technology and instant multi-chain access to DeFi protocols—all in a transparent and secure manner. Birthday Research focuses on developing best-in-class blockchain and digital asset technologies through open-source blockchain research and development. Its aim is to allow DeFi to be leveraged by enterprises in a trustworthy, safe, and compliant manner. We want to transform and decentralise finance with tomorrow’s technology. This is where you come in. Join a company that is at the forefront of bleeding-edge innovations in the blockchain world. You will be empowered to push boundaries and think out of the box. You will get to work with a bunch of ridiculously motivated and talented people. And most importantly, you'll have fun. The best places to work at, are often also the most fun to work at. That's us. We hire based on merit, fit, and strong alignment to our culture. Our culture is defined by 7 team principles: Integrity, Resourcefulness, Ownership, Meritocratic Decision-making, Customer Obsession, Radical Candour, and Passion. These 7 principles guide our company, our people, and our work. At Cake Group, our culture is our pride. It has been instrumental to our success, so we are steadfast in our commitment to it. We welcome you to add to it.
Job Summary
What you’ll do:
📍Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams to design and develop blockchain modules. 📍Take an active responsibility in designing and developing highly scalable blockchain modules for our scaling needs. 📍Write highly performant clean, simple, maintainable codes and battle-tested with test-driven development (TDD) for maximum test coverage automated from pull request all the way to release. 📍Taking on the polyglot hat and deep-diving into multiple codebases (Rust/C++/JS) to contribute and understand how things work under the hood. 📍Engineering low-level performant blockchain modules such as peer networking, ledger indexes, consensus protocol, and wallet systems.
What you’ll need:
📍Experience working in a fast pace tech-driven startup as a Software Engineer with at least 2 years of experience or in a similar capacity. 📍Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript with experience working in Web, Node, or Mobile technologies. 📍Ability to take full ownership and work independently while collaborating with others in a fast-paced agile and async team. 📍A collaborative and resourceful individual with excellent communication skills able to make radical decisions while being empathetic and respectful. 📍Willingness to pick up new and emerging bleeding edge blockchain technologies. 📍A deep technical understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptography, BIPs, DeFi, UTXO, EVM, or Nakamoto Consensus is highly preferred.
