Senior Software Engineer, Figment

• Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects
• Proven extensive experience in software engineering and distributed systems
• Ability to write production-ready applications in Go
• Ability to reason about tradeoffs between different engineering approaches
• Familiar with data storage solutions (SQL/noSQL databases)
• Familiar with containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Results oriented individual with a high EQ and attention to detail
• Architecting your own solutions for significant problems, factoring in maintenance, scalability and security concerns to your solution approach
• Familiar with team processes based on agile methodology
• A collaborative approach to sharing ideas and finding innovative solutions
• Improve overall productivity and unblock team members through technical leadership, mentorship and leading by example

Desirable

• We are seeking an experienced Go developer to build tooling as it relates to collecting, ingesting, integrating, processing, transforming, storing, managing, monitoring, and optimizing blockchain data
• The Data Availability team delivers big data extraction and processing solutions with highly available APIs
• We're looking for someone who can learn new blockchain data structures and contribute to Figment's data processing infrastructure
• This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America and Europe
• This role is unique because you get to work with many new blockchains and deliver blazingly fast APIs on huge amounts of data
• This work helps people around the world to foster Web3 technologies
• If you enjoy figuring out how new blockchains work and love solving distributed data processing problems, then this role may be a good fit for you
• Create high performance indexing software to ingest data from blockchains or ingest data from other sources in Go
• Full responsibility for technical architecting and team processes
• Work closely with other various business units to prioritize deliverables and set timelines
• Technical decisions between different engineering approaches and explain them to the others on the team and achieve buy-in on your proposal
• Process big data collections and design fast-read data storages
• Design and implement HA APIs for large blockchain datasets
• Designing next generation data pipelines
• Serve as a mentor for junior team members
• Technologies we use: Go, Snowflake, DBT, Dagster
• Teams you’ll collaborate with most often: This role will collaborate most often with our Data Science and API teams

• At Figment, we try to go above and beyond in making sure that you have the best possible experience interviewing with us. We strive for a smooth, organized, and informative process
• During your first Recruiter Call, you will be provided with more information about Figment, the position and what to expect for the rest of the interview process. Please be prepared to discuss why you are interested in joining Figment and what excites you about the position and company
• As we go through the process, we work to make sure that you hear back from us in a timely fashion. If we decide at any point that we’re unfortunately not moving forward, we will give you feedback on why it was not a fit
• We aim for the entire process to take around 2-3 weeks from initial screen to offer. There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule, that’s the time-frame you can expect