Backend Engineer

pstrongThe CompanystrongpulliIndustry BlockchainliliHQ USAliliSize EmployeesliulpstrongstrongphWho we arehpOver the next years payment and financial services businesses will upgrade the movement of money and financial assets to blockchainbased networksppWe are on a mission to revolutionize the way people access and transact in the worlds most widely recognized and stable currency the US Dollar We believe that financial inclusion should be a right not a privilege and that costeffective accessible financial services can make a profound impact on peoples lives especially in regions where traditional banking systems fall shortppWe are building a nextgeneration payments asset management and operations platform thats purposebuilt for the transmission of value on blockchain digital rails The Company is led by Nick van Eck (prev at General Catalyst years) and Drake Evans (exlead engineer at Frax Finance the issuer of the second largest onchain stablecoin)phbrhhWhat were buildinghpFirst and foremost were building an engineering organization dedicated to producing the best We are building a culture where we work as a team we operate as a unit and we trust each other to produce the best code and culture we canppOur first product a fully collateralized freely tradeable USD stablecoin will be launched in the year ahead Itll be competing directly with the heavyweight stables in the market today but will differentiate materially in terms of its value proposition resource allocation and GTM model The stables collateral will be managed by VanEck one of the worlds largest asset managers and ETF issuers ($B AUM)phstrongbrstronghhstrongWho you arestronghulliCapable of moving fast while prioritizing code quality and maintainabilityliliFastlearner you are proactive and able to pick up new things quicklyliliExperience architecting applications from scratchliliYou take extreme pride in building the bestliulhstrongbrstronghhstrongResponsibilitiesstronghulliArchitect develop and maintain the serverside logic databases APIs and other backend processes to meet application requirementsliliDevelop a hightrust highquality engineering cultureliliCollaborate closely with our CTO and CEO to directly impact product roadmapliliCollaborate with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration of userfacing elementsliliEngage in the entire application lifecycle focusing on coding debugging and deploying with an emphasis on high quality scalable codeliliDevelop and maintain our database layer APIs and other web servicesliliHire Teach and Mentor junior engineersliulhstrongbrstronghhstrongQualificationsstronghulli years of backend developmentliliStrong expertise in Typescript and Golang (willing to learn rust)liliProficiency in both SQL and NoSQL databases understanding of ACID properties and knowledge of distributed database architecturesliliProficient in RESTful API and GraphQL development with a deep understanding of OpenAPISwagger documentationliliProven experience working on large projects with longterm impact on a single system or teamliliExperience leading the development of distributed systems and microservice architectureliliAbility to handle unexpected challenges perhaps even those that fall outside strict backend developmentliliMust be open to learning new technologies methodologies and moving between different tasksliliMust be able to articulate complex technical issues to nontechnical stakeholdersliulpstrongBonus QualificationsstrongpulliExperience in highsecurity or financial applicationsliliKnowledge of Front End Development and DevopsliliExperience interacting with blockchainsliulululpstrongbrThe role is hybrid as the two cofounders are based in NY and like to meet up as a team regularly There are no set days a week that they will be required to come instrongppstrongWilling to transfer HB visasstrongp