Senior Backend Engineer – Crypto / Blockchain
Our client is an established and rapidly expanding global cryptocurrency & payments platform. Their mission is to move the world to digital currencies. They are growing their team and looking for an experienced head of backend engineering and 2-3 senior backend engineers. The roles require a high level of initiative and expertise in technical infrastructure, software development, security and finance.
We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit and excellent communication skills combined with a high level of technical engineering expertise. Ideally you have experience of
The roles can be remote, semi-remote or based in their London office.
Role and Responsibilities
- Liaise with all teams within the business to ensure technical needs are met and planned for
- Architect and implement new features as required by internal and external API consumers
- Maintain and improve performance of existing backend code bases
- Maintain and improve policies relating to backend code quality and security
- Manage and assist teams requiring devops support
Qualifications and Skills
- Experience of working in a Crypto / Blockchain environment
- Infrastructure tools experience preferred:
Kubernetes, AWS EC2/VPC/ELB, General Networking
- Programming languages:
Java, Groovy, JavaScript
- Frameworks:
Spring, Spring Boot, Grails, JAX-RS / REST, OpenAPI
- Databases:
MySQL compatible, Athena
- A higher qualification or equivalent professional qualifications relating to computer science (preferred but not required)
- Minimum 5 years previous experience in a business environment
- Finance industry experience
- Extremely detail oriented and organized
- Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication