Senior Cloud / Backend Web3 Engineer, premia

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in fintech or a related financial field
• 4+ years of software engineering experience in Typescript and NodeJS
• 4+ years of experience building scalable solutions on top of Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 2+ years of software engineering experience in Solidity, Python, or Rust
• 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

Desirable

• As a key engineering team member, you will gain ownership and responsibility over building and maintaining our existing suite of backend systems and infrastructure, while contributing to our user-facing products
• You will focus on delivering high-performance, highly resilient, scalable solutions that power our trading platforms, analytics, and more
• Engineers at Premia work directly with our Chief of Engineering and the existing engineering team to architect, develop, and optimize our backend systems and cloud infrastructure
• You will also collaborate with the frontend team to integrate backend and cloud services into user-facing features and new iterations of the Premia applications and product set
• In addition, you will work closely with other departments such as Smart Contracts, Design, Operations, and Marketing teams to successfully plan, execute, and iterate on the implementation, testing, and deployment of new features and enhancements
• As a senior engineer, you will mentor other members of your team, and will make sure backend services and cloud components are shipped on time, performant, highly resilient, scalable to millions of users, and always running smoothly
• 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