Scala Backend Engineer, Ledger
+ equity
2-5 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Platform for digital assets and Web3
Job no longer available
Platform for digital assets and Web3
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ equity
2-5 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the new disruptive class of crypto assets.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in backend robust development
- Adaptability to do teamwork in a fast-evolving environment
- Scala, Haskell or functional programming experience is a nice to have
- Java developers who are willing to dive into Scala technologies are welcome
- Strong knowledge on relational database
- Experience with continuous integration / deployment solutions
- Experience of Containerization and Cloud deployments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge on Event-based systems
- You are autonomous, proactive and capable of self-training
- You are adept of pragmatic and simple solutions
- You have an interest in cryptocurrencies and want to work with blockchain technology
- You are enthusiast about teamwork, learning and teaching (meet-ups, hackathons, trainings …)
What the job involves
- You will start by joining Ledger’s payments and transactions business unit (Consumer Services) to improve the existing transactional services, and keep delivering new ones
- The team focuses on creating easy, secure and clever ways for consumers to buy, exchange, sell, send, receive and grow their crypto
- Build highly available, resilient, consistent and performant services to power Ledger’s products
- Integrate Staking, Yield and DeFi services through Partners API
- Interact with blockchain explorers to track Network events of interest (Fees, Transaction status…)
- Deliver robust APIs to allows agnostic consumption (Mobile, Desktop, Web)
- Proactively engaging in the architecture and design processes, ensuring the designed solution meets project requirements, can be achieved iteratively with a maximum level of feasibility
- Maintain and make evolve the existing stack
- Conduct benchmarks to identify bottlenecks and optimize the overall performance of our services
- Deliver high quality piece of software (Test it, Document it, Demonstrate it)
- Design monitoring systems to detect unexpected failures / behavior and efficient alerting
- Develop and contribute to our CI / CD pipelines 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: $588.5m
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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