Staff Software Engineer, Paxos
Messaging
$265-312k
Blockchain infrastructure for financial services
Job no longer available
Blockchain infrastructure for financial services
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$265-312k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable the movement of any asset, at any time, in a trustworthy way.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software development experience, including at least one of the following: Golang, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++
- Mastery of computer science and programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
- Strong previous experience in key messaging technologies like gPRC, Kafka, RMQ and ZMQ
- Solid experience with connectivity and platform level authentication concepts, including federated
- Authentication protocols like SAML2 and OIDC
- Experience with API design and financial protocols like FIX and SWIFT. TCP, UDP and multicast are desirable
Desirable
- Design and implementation of high performance electronic trading systems including performance tuning to optimize latency, jitter, queuing and throughput
- Solid understanding of concepts like load balancing, HA/failover, ingress, inter-service communications in a microservices style cluster, idempotence, ACID, guaranteed delivery, etc
- Technical expert in at least one domain like Trading Systems, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, or AWS
- Can understand and articulate the architecture of an entire system, including the technical trade-offs between different design implementations of high performance, low latency order state management
- Familiar with digital-native online web application architectures and infrastructures, including clustering (Kubernetes), containerizing (Docker), telemetry/instrumentation (Prometheus/Grafana), etc
- Eager to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse multi-disciplinary team, collaborating effectively with stakeholders
- Constantly seeks to learn new technologies, innovate and discover better ways to solve engineering challenges of high performance trading systems and APIs, including performance tuning, latency optimizations and constant new development of APIs
What the job involves
- The team is responsible for connectivity, authentication and all high performance messaging within the Paxos core platform, both high throughput and low latency
- Design and implement high quality software from concept through to launch – taking ownership of design, coding, testing and deployment of key connectivity and messaging infrastructure
- Apply and develop engineering best-practices including agile planning/estimation, strategic messaging patterns and best practices across the company
- Effectively resolve ambiguity, analyzing complex requirements and breaking down features and initiatives into tactical tasks
- Effectively navigate the trade-offs among MVP vs Enterprise-Grade, Time-to-market and other relevant dimensions
- Search for the truth in product conceptualization and development, ensuring designs and implementations are fully aligned with the company mission and product goals
Our take
Paxos develops regulation-compliant infrastructure services for companies looking to add features like crypto brokerages or branded stablecoins to their customer offerings. Its focus on regulatory compliance, and its status as one of only three national trusts born in the crypto ecosystem, gives it an edge in building a unique and global network of enterprise customers.
Cryptocurrency remains a risky sector, so a company at the forefront of crypto regulation is proving highly attractive to a growing sector of enterprises tentatively dipping their toes in. It is pushing ahead of competitors as one of the largest crypto/blockchain startups with substantial funding and an impressive valuation.
Its growth has been backed up by material results, too. It has established relationships with firms like Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Mastercard. PayPal also leverages Paxos on its backend to enable its users to buy, sell and hold crypto. This proven success with an expanding roster of big-name clients is very impressive, as is the company's success in receiving approval to convert to an OCC National Trust Bank.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2020
$142m
SERIES C
Total funding: $535.3m
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Charles Cascarilla
(CEO & Co-founder)Previous Co-founder and Partner at Cedar Hill Capital Partners for 10 years. Current Partner at Liberty City Ventures and Founding Board Member of the Association for Digital Asset Markets, alongside working at Paxos.
Rich Teo
(CEO Asia & Co-founder)Previous Financial Analyst at Citi for 2 years before becoming a Principal / Senior Analyst at Cedar Hill Capital Partners. Has served as CEO of Asia at Paxos for 7 years.
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