Backend Engineer

NAVA Software is looking for a Backend Software Engineer

Details:

Back-End Software Engineers

Location: Miami FL Hybrid

Duration: Full time /Direct Hire

The ideal candidates have strong knowledge of distributed systems design, are proficient in coding on the JVM (one of Java, Kotlin, Scala), understand the importance of scalability and reliability and are looking to be part of cutting-edge projects in a fast-paced environment.

Our engineering teams are involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, planning, execution, shipping and monitoring. We are looking for software engineers who care about the customers, software excellence, are advocates of best practices and love learning new skills.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency ecosystem building out new distributed software to handle our rapidly growing user base of 75M+ wallets to reach 1B+ customers
• Become a key member of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users
• Advocate best practices, code quality, test coverage and drive technical discussions
• Build scalable services with Kotlin, and deal with problems like synchronization, asynchronous operations, database optimisations, scalability and reliability of systems
• Gain exposure to an array of technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker etc
• Optimise existing systems for scalability, extensibility and performance whilst building out reusable, modular code for use across Blockchain's products
• 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 software to our users

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• You know at least one programming language in depth
• You have at least one year of experience in any JVM based languages (such as Java, Kotlin, Scala) and are confident in your ability to build, debug and ship microservices
• You have experience building and shipping highly-available, fault tolerant, production ready distributed backend systems
• You actively participate in creating product and software specifications before implementing them
• You pride yourself on consistent high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation and effective monitoring
• You inspire other engineers to do better
• Understanding of data structures, databases and large-scale distributed systems
• Preferably exposure to technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ
• You are customer focused and continuously suggest how the backend can provide the best Customer Experience
• A passion for crypto and the transformations it enables
• We use Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, Grafana, BigQuery, ApacheSpark and more