About the company
Paxos is building the foundation for the open financial system. We are a regulated blockchain infrastructure company building transparent and transformative financial solutions. We create accessible blockchain infrastructure that’s instantaneous and reliable, 24/7 - whether it’s enabling crypto features for enterprises, launching the world’s first fully-regulated, asset-backed tokens (USDP & PAXG), or setting a new standard of efficiency for settlement of securities.
Job Summary
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll get to:
📍Design and implement high quality software from concept through to launch - taking ownership of design, coding, testing and deployment of key connectivity and messaging infrastructure. 📍Apply and develop engineering best-practices including agile planning/estimation, strategic messaging patterns and best practices across the company. 📍Effectively resolve ambiguity, analyzing complex requirements and breaking down features and initiatives into tactical tasks. 📍Effectively navigate the trade-offs among MVP vs Enterprise-Grade, Time-to-market and other relevant dimensions. 📍Search for the truth in product conceptualization and development, ensuring designs and implementations are fully aligned with the company mission and product goals.
Your experience should include:
📍8+ years of software development experience, including at least one of the following: Golang, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++. 📍Mastery of computer science and programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms). 📍Strong previous experience in key messaging technologies like gPRC, Kafka, RMQ and ZMQ. 📍Solid experience with connectivity and platform level authentication concepts, including federated authentication protocols like SAML2 and OIDC. 📍Experience with API design and financial protocols like FIX and SWIFT. TCP, UDP and multicast.
You might also have:
📍Design and implementation of high performance electronic trading systems including performance tuning to optimize latency, jitter, queuing and throughput. 📍Solid understanding of concepts like load balancing, HA/failover, ingress, inter-service communications in a microservices > 📍Technical expert in at least one domain like Trading Systems, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, or AWS. 📍Can understand and articulate the architecture of an entire system, including the technical trade-offs between different design implementations of high performance, low latency order state management. 📍Familiar with digital-native online web application architectures and infrastructures, including clustering (Kubernetes), containerizing (Docker), telemetry/instrumentation (Prometheus/Grafana), etc. 📍Eager to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse multi-disciplinary team, collaborating effectively with stakeholders. 📍Constantly seeks to learn new technologies, innovate and discover better ways to solve engineering challenges of high performance trading systems and APIs, including performance tuning, latency optimizations and constant new development of APIs.