Staff Software Engineer, Ledger
Backend
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
Platform for digital assets and Web3
Posted today
Platform for digital assets and Web3
501-1000 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the new disruptive class of crypto assets.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge of backend services programming
- An interest in working in a polyglot environment (Scala experience is not mandatory, but a real plus)
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL (we use Postgres)
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems
- Adaptability to work within a team in an evolving environment: You are autonomous, proactive, and able to upskill in certain areas yourself where necessary
- Experience with continuous integration/deployment solutions
- Knowledge of containerization and cloud deployments
- An interest in cryptocurrencies and wishing to work with blockchain technology is a real plus
- Enthusiastic about teamwork, learning, and teaching (meet-ups, hackathons, training…)
What the job involves
- You will join the Cloud Wallet team which is in charge of building and maintaining backend services to manage crypto wallets on server side, used by our B2B and B2C products
- The team is composed of passionate engineers who believe in the benefits and strength of functional programming to develop robust and scalable platforms and APIs, while also being eager to understand and implement product and business requirements
- We use Scala extensively to build our backend services and tooling, but not only that: TypeScript/node.js is also an integral part of our tech stack
- Build highly available, consistent, and well-functioning services to power Ledger's products
- Leverage all the power of functional programming with Scala and the Typelevel stack
- Dive into cryptocurrencies protocols internals
- Conduct benchmarks to identify bottlenecks and optimize the overall performance of our services
- Deliver a high-quality piece of software (Test it, Document it, Demonstrate it)
- Design monitoring and alerting systems to detect unexpected failures/behavior
- Use CI/CD to deploy and secure workflows
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ledger has grown into one of the world’s largest hardware wallets for digital assets since its 2014 inception, with well over 6 millions of devices sold across the globe. By offering physical devices to store private keys, customers are able to secure their digital assets offline.
The company is attempting to support the continued growth of the crypto eco-system by offering cryptocurrency owners an alternative to storing their assets on an online exchange. There, a simple password breach could cause untold damage.
Ledger’s hardware solution has proven popular with investors, seeing them receive huge funding from 10T Holdings, Cathay Innovation, and Draper Associates to name just a few.
Keen to move on and ensure against any recurrence, Ledger has since secured even more investment, and formed astute partnerships with other big names in the Crypto world, including an integration with Coinbase.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2023
$109m
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$380m
SERIES C
Total funding: $588.9m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Personal development initiatives
- Flexible working hours, remote-friendly environment
- 5 weeks of paid vacation + 10 days of RTT
- High performance office equipment
- Comprehensive health insurance policy
- Meal vouchers with Swile
- Reimbursement for sports and cultural activities
- Annual company outings and regular socials
- Employee discount on Ledger products
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
Leadership
Pascal Gauthier
(Chairman & CEO)Before becoming CEO at Ledger, they worked as Venture Partner in Mosaic Ventures, a London based venture capital firm focusing on Series A stage companies. They are also the non-executive chairman of Kaiko, a financial data website on Bitcoin.
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