Software Engineer - Crypto

Accountabilities:

• Design, build, and maintain exchange and market-making systems supporting crypto trading at scale.


• Develop reliable services for crypto wallets, funding, tokenization, and related financial infrastructure.


• Architect and implement backend services and web applications using modern engineering practices.


• Build systems capable of handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads while maintaining reliability and fault tolerance.


• Maintain strong software quality, testing standards, code coverage, and clean, maintainable code.


• Participate actively in code reviews and contribute to technical decision-making.


• Investigate and resolve production incidents, technical issues, and reported bugs.


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical goals and design solutions that meet business requirements.


• Take part in on-call responsibilities when required to support time-sensitive engineering initiatives.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in backend software development.


• Proven experience building trading systems, exchanges, matching engines, market-making platforms, or other high-throughput, low-latency financial systems.


• Hands-on experience developing crypto-related products or infrastructure.


• Strong knowledge of financial markets and regulated, fault-tolerant systems.


• Professional experience with at least one modern programming language such as Go, C, or C++; strong Go experience is particularly relevant.


• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.


• Experience working with messaging queues and message brokers.


• Solid SQL and relational database knowledge.


• Hands-on experience with Bash, Linux, and Docker.


• Strong focus on software quality, reliability, testing, and delivering robust solutions.


• Comfortable challenging existing approaches, sharing technical opinions, and taking ownership of engineering decisions.


• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps practices, major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, microservice architectures, Agile/Scrum, or clean-code principles is a plus.


• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD are also advantageous.

• Competitive salary and stock options.


• Health benefits.


• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.


• USD $150 monthly stipend provided through a Brex Card.


• Remote-friendly working environment with a globally distributed team.


• Opportunity to work on large-scale crypto, trading, and financial infrastructure.


• High level of autonomy and ownership over technical solutions.


• Collaboration with experienced engineers, traders, and financial technology professionals.


• Exposure to complex, high-throughput systems serving users and financial institutions globally.

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