Junior Cloud / Backend Web3 Engineer, premia

• A junior-level full-stack/backend engineer (Cloud veteran) with a solid background in financial applications and relevant backend technologies (e.g. Typescript, NodeJS, Python, databases, cloud services, network infrastructure, etc.)
• You are familiar with decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain (or complementary Layer-2 networks) such as Premia and Uniswap, as well as centralized crypto applications such as Deribit and Coinbase, and understand the backend technologies and cloud services often used by these projects
• You are passionate about building highly scalable, resilient, and performant software systems for the next generation of financial applications on the internet and have a wide set of skills and experience to execute on this
• You understand the necessity for building dependable, scalable, and developer-friendly systems in order to support realtime financial applications
• You have experience and are culturally aligned with fast-moving small teams. You have worked in a remote (globally distributed) team before, preferably in a startup environment
• You are self-driven, highly knowledgeable about building performant, scalable Cloud services, and can swiftly ship high quality software systems when needed
• You can identify company priorities, own them, and iterate quickly to ship the best solution within aggressive deadlines
• You understand the necessity of thoroughly testing financial applications and the systems thereof before and after shipping any service to production
• You have experience utilizing testing suites, CI/CD, and issue tracking systems to effectively maintain resilient production software at scale
• You can write and speak highly fluent English and have great communication skills. You work well in a team
• Exceptional proficiency in TypeScript, NodeJS, and relevant backend technologies (e.g. databases, cloud platforms)
• Understanding of Solidity, Python, Rust, and other backend programming languages
• Passion and experience for building complete software systems in production
• Experience working with containerized technologies such as Docker
• Familiarity with automated testing, DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines
• Strong fundamentals in computer science, software design patterns, networking, etc
• Track record of delivering high-quality code with a focus on performance, security, and scalability
• Passion for DeFi, game theory, mechanism design, and other web3 concepts
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity tempered with humility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Self-starter with a desire to take ownership, learn new skills, and mentor others
• Open source software contributions, especially to major web3 projects

Desirable

• Build highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems, with both serverless and cloud services
• Design and implement software systems to ingest and supply complex on-chain data for fast, easy access
• Design and architect backend REST and WebSocket APIs for scalable, realtime financial usage
• Engineer large-scale data pipelines to drive insights into protocol performance and user behavior
• Develop mission-critical bots or smart contracts that monitor blockchain state and user funds
• Take advantage of best-in-class tooling to provide the highest quality services to our products
• Collaborate with frontend team(s) to integrate backend services into realtime web3 applications
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in code reviews to prevent technical debt
• Mentor other engineers and evangelize best practices in a highly collaborative environment