Senior Backend Engineer, Blockworks

• You're a software development enthusiast with a focus on backend and API development. You are a player-coach and a natural leader who understands the technical and human elements that go into great software design
• You have a results-oriented attitude and a passion for delivering flawless releases and developing digital product pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). You have a proven track record facilitating engineering teams to increase productivity and quality
• You're excited at the possibility of being on the ground floor of the design and development of backend data strategies
• You bring a passion for designing and maintaining scalable API services that handle large amounts of data elegantly
• You love moving quickly in a fast-paced start-up, but you also bring intentionality, sustainability and scalability to your approach as an engineer
• You have a deep understanding of data principles and architecture that either came from a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or from intensive hands-on work experience
• You have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong focus on backend development and API architecture using Typescript and Node.js or Go
• You've got demonstrated experience building blazing-fast API endpoints that can handle large amounts of data with over 1M requests per day
• You also bring significant experience maintaining and running API endpoints using serverless architecture, including deployment, configuration, and TTFB optimization
• You bring proficiency in designing and optimizing relational databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query optimization
• Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, you've got incredibly strong problem-solving and engineering skills that showcase your attention to detail and foundational ability to write and maintain clean and reusable code

Desirable

• As our Senior Backend Engineer on the data team, you'll be responsible for designing and building the backend systems and strategies that will power all of our data and analytics products
• You'll work collaboratively with other members of the engineering team to design, develop, implement, and evolve our data strategies and approaches
• Build and Ship: You'll be responsible for building our backend data structure and APIs for our core products, and on our Engineering team, we ship fast and often (but never at the expense of quality)
• Own the API: You'll be in charge of building, evolving, and maintaining our backend API layer that fuels our current and future crypto analytics products
• Proactively Identify and Fix Issues: In partnership with the rest of the Data Engineering team, you'll constantly be on the lookout for stability and scalability issues
• Engage in Product Development: You'll participate and bring technical leadership to all aspects of our product development life cycle
• Scope and Spec Improvements: You'll be responsible for estimating the development scope and building specs for the implementation and rollout of system changes
• Drive Operational Efficiency: You'll be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to improve workflows, reliably automate routine tasks, and identify and mitigate project risks
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You'll work with other teams across Blockworks, including Research, Product, and Engineering, to lead initiatives and move forward with program collaborations