Staff Backend Engineer, Notabene
Compliant transaction platform for crypto
Open for applications
Compliant transaction platform for crypto
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Notabene's mission is to make cryptocurrency transactions a part of the everyday economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or staff-level backend engineering role. You have a proven track record in building and optimizing high-throughput, distributed systems
- Highly proficient in back-end languages such as Node.js/Typescript/Deno with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Rust or Go experience is a huge plus
- Deep understanding of cryptography, public/private key encryption/signing. Knowledge of decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and DIDComm is highly preferred
- Extensive experience in PostgreSQL and SQL optimization, with the ability to architect and troubleshoot high-throughput transactional databases. Knowledge of low-latency NoSQL datastores is a plus
- Expertise in event-driven microservices development, with hands-on experience using Kafka and familiarity with distributed systems principles
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing services on AWS with knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) being highly desirable
- Knowledge of security principles, particularly around secure data handling, encryption, and best practices in financial or transactional data systems
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a global, remote-first company
- Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and departments
What the job involves
- As a Staff Backend Engineer at Notabene, you'll be pivotal in shaping how crypto transactions are securely cleared and settled at scale worldwide
- You’ll be joining the transactions team, a critical component of the Notabene Platform responsible for the reliable processing of high-throughput transaction data globally
- In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain our core transaction-processing services, driving the platform's scalability, reliability, and performance to handle the growing volume and emerging crypto use cases
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in setting technical direction, mentoring team members, and ensuring our architecture is optimized to meet the needs of a constantly changing and fast-paced market
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency microservices for our Transactions team, contributing directly to Notabene’s secure and reliable transaction authorization platform
- Work closely with product, engineering, compliance, and customer-facing teams to gather requirements align on technical feasibility, and prioritize projects that maximize value to our customers
- Develop and execute the Transactions team roadmap aligning with business priorities and strategic objectives
- Scope and drive large-scale technical projects end-to-end, from inception through deployment, and delivering ongoing improvements to scalability and performance
- Mentor and support engineers throughout the Notabene engineering organization
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Increased accessibility to blockchain technology is facilitating financial institutions and VASPs to provide cryptocurrency services to their customers, but maintaining compliance can be difficult. Different jurisdictions and their domestic regulators require companies to comply with the FATF's Recommendation 16 "Crypto Travel Rule", but this is difficult without having access to blockchain address types and other missing data points.
Notabene provides compliance tools for businesses that facilitate cryptocurrency transactions, helping them to access the data they need to provide compliant blockchain products. This is achieved through tools that help the user to identify missing blockchain data from their counterparties and their crypto transactions, allowing them to apply necessary regulations within their products.
Whilst companies can already provide cryptocurrency services whilst remaining compliant, this requires the expensive assistance of blockchain experts, and Notabene recognizes the unaffordability of this for most businesses. By providing counterparty data management tools in the form of low-code embeddable API tools, the company is reducing the cost and complexity of remaining compliant in the blockchain sector, therefore increasing accessibility to the technology.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$14.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$10.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $26.7m
Company values
- We bring a trusted data layer to blockchain transactions. Businesses use our software to manage counterparty risk and deliver a best-in-class payment experience to their customers
- We are a key enabler of the crypto ecosystem. Notabene helps crypto businesses grow faster by removing regulatory complexity and adding transparency and ease to their transaction flows
- We’re at a very exciting moment in our Notabene journey. We are growing fast—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape the future rails of the crypto industry!
- We’re a team of diverse talent who dream big and are passionate about bringing crypto to everyone. Since 2012, our team has led blockchain and identity projects and has a successful track record in building and scaling companies, including crypto exchanges. We are a fully distributed international team spanning 8 countries and 3 continents
Company HQ
Williamsburg, NY
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Leadership
Pelle Brændgaard
(CEO)Experience as Blockchain Consultant for Raise. Previously co-founded Kipochi and uPort, where they were CTO from 2016 to 2019.
Andres Junge
(CTO)Experience as Founder, CEO and Software Architect for Yaykuy Bitcoin Chile from 2012 to 2018. Co-founder and Senior Developer of ConsenSys' uPort from 2015 to 2019.
Ania Lipinska
(CPO)Experience as Lead UX Designed for Charming Robot from 2014 to 2018. Senior Product Designer for ConsenSys' uPort from 2018 to 2020.
Alice Nawfal
(COO)COO and Director of Business Operations of ConsenSys' uPort from 2017 to 2020.
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