Backend Engineer

Title: Backend Engineer
Location: New York City, NY(Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Summary

A leading company in the crypto space is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Engineering team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you ll focus on building and improving consumer and business APIs and the many microservices powering web and mobile applications. You will design and build services with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security.

If you are excited about high-availability requirements, scalability challenges, automated workflows, infrastructure orchestration, queueing systems, APIs, and protocols like GraphQL and gRPC, this is the place for you.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Building the most powerful, easy-to-use financial platform in the world.
  Delivering new features and enhancements to the platform.
  Working closely with the Frontend and Mobile Engineeringteams to integrate frontend UI.
  Collaborating with product managers, designers, engineers, and other project stakeholders throughout the software development life cycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment, and support).
  Helping the team stay up to date with the tech stack ecosystem.
  Writing high-quality code with performance and scalability in mind.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  Extensive hands-on coding experience, with deep knowledge of the idioms and nuances of multiple programming languages and their ecosystems. Primary languages include JavaScript (Node.js) and Golang.
  Strong understanding of relational (preferably PostgreSQL) and/or non-relational databases (e.g., Redis).
  Strong understanding of web semantics.
  Knowledge of revision control systems.
  Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and automation tools.
  Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, with a positive attitude.
  Fluent written and spoken English skills.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience developing APIs for other products.
  Experience developing software that interacts with message queues (e.g., Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar, or RabbitMQ).
  Experience integrating APIs from other service providers.
  Proven record of working within performance budgets.
  Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, as they are core to the business.
  Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
  Open-source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems or fixing issues in existing projects.