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Senior Backend Engineer, Infrastructure Chaturbate Remote (United States) / Los Angeles, California / San Francisco, California / Irvine, California $180,000 to $220,000 a year
September 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
What are we doing: we are a tech company, operating a thriving and growing broadcast platform, Alexa ranked in the top 100 sites internationally, and the top 25 in the United States, with approximately 10 million daily users, and a worldwide community of fans. Independent Broadcasters use our platform to create and share live streaming video, photographs, and similar content, generally adult in nature, (but no adult content is required).
Our sophisticated system has multiple parts, including but not limited to payment gateways, live chats, and video streaming technology. Every contribution here is of high impact and affects the experience of millions of users using the site every day.
We always explore new ways to use cutting-edge tech stack and move toward modern micro-services based architecture.
How we build the product: The platform is built on Python/Django framework with TypeScript on the front-end. Some parts of the platform use Java, Golang, and Rust.
Top-3 reasons to join our team:
People first culture - many initiatives that support the well-being of our employees.
Impressive team members who joined us after working at Google, Imgur, etc.
An inclusive environment that induces a high impact of everyone on a team.
What will you do: Being a part of our infrastructure team, you will be working with Lead backend Engineer on complex migration of our codebase to Python 3 with its further optimization. As a top-notch software engineer in our team, you will be accountable for building comprehensive technical solutions with high-quality standards and practicing clean coding styles.
This includes working on features that are supported across all major web browsers, mobile devices, smart TVs, and video consoles. As a backend engineer, it is expected to work with large data sets and being an expert in designing efficient algorithms, queries, and caching methods.
We value an initiative and are willing to support you in making appropriate technical decisions
Requirements
A degree in STEM and/or relevant professional experience.
Solid knowledge of programming fundamentals - algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and paradigms.
7+years of professional experience with Python in a high-paced production environment.
Familiarity with Django or extensive experience with similar Python-based frameworks.
Expert knowledge of inner workings of Django is highly desirable.
Expert knowledge of web development with a deep understanding of inner workings of major browsers, including how they render HTML/CSS and their Javascript runtime environment.
Proven problem-solving and fast-learning skills.
Benefits
Health&Life insurance with dental and vision plan
401k matching
Paid holidays, vacation and sick days
Paid lunches
What does the recruiting process look like: we value the sense of urgency and aspire to build a smooth and transparent recruiting process. These are our stages in the recruiting process: phone screen with a recruiter, resume review by our hiring manager, first technical interview with a backend team lead to test your knowledge of Python/Django, 1-hour live coding session with the Head of Engineering, Meet&Greet with your potential team.
We reserve the right to add additional selection stages to the process depending on the specific skills of each candidate.
Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
As a staff engineer on the Data Access team, your work will be crucial to supporting Reddit’s data-driven Sales & Marketing stakeholders through improving this unique internal platform which provides a great source of overall revenue generation for the company. Since this is a growing team, the role provides room for creative problem solving and independence.
How you will contribute:
Impact the development of the team and organization’s long term strategy.
Refine and maintain our data visualizations to support real-time analysis of hundreds of millions of users.
Be a key contributor in the scaling and integration of in-house technology company-wide.
Use the unique programming language, Nim, for frontend and backend work.
Experiment with mass amounts of data and share strategic data-driven insights.
Who you might be:
7+ years of experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in a production environment.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, sales and marketing.
Experience with programming languages such as Nim, Rust, Go, Python, C++, Java.
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Experience working with infrastructure technologies Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience with SQL and query parsing, generating and planning. Bonus points for database maintenance.
What you’ll learn:
How to be a steward for large amounts of data.
How to be a technical liaison between engineering and Sales & Marketing.
The ins and outs of how programming languages work, parsing and query planning.
Best practices for data and how to thrive in a data-driven environment.
Benefits:
Comprehensive Health benefits
401k Matching
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
4+ months paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
At Scratchpad, our mission is to unlock the highest levels of performance for sales teams. We believe we can do that by reducing complexity and creating delightful experiences, which has led us to pioneer the first workspace for revenue teams. We take the most tedious parts of daily work and turn them into efficient, delightful experiences that positively impact salespeople's professional and personal lives. But don’t take our word for it - read what our customers and top-tier investors are raving about
**Life at Scratchpad **
The Scratchpad team is defined by our values: simplicity, ideas, results, speed, delight, and feedback. We profoundly care about our customers, the work we do, and each other. You'll constantly be learning from your colleagues as we have a strong culture of feedback. We believe it's part of what has made us successful as a "remote first" company.
Working on the Engineering Team
You will collaborate with engineers, leadership, product, design, and customers to drive quality and innovation. Being a creative problem solver, you’ll enjoy designing solutions for difficult engineering problems. Building a workspace designed to improve sales performance is not easy, so we're looking for resilient and ambitious people who are excited by this challenge. If you’re compelled to work on a team that leads with empathy, values personal growth and never stops learning, join us!
**About You **
User-Focused: You put the user first with a keen sense of how your code will impact the user's experience in terms of performance, security and usability
Language Agnostic: we use a lightweight tech stack of Postgres, Go and Vue
Team Player: You're proactive; you can jump in and help clarify specs, work with users to understand bugs, etc.
Experience: 6+ years as a backend engineer
Goal Oriented: Problem-solver mindset who's biased towards action and getting stuff done
Self Aware: You don’t shy away from asking for help and are unafraid to say, “I don’t know”.
Lifelong Learner: Place value on personal growth and constructive feedback
Empathetic Communicator: You take a compassionate, organized and collaborative communication style with colleagues and users
Your Impact
Take full ownership of bringing specs to life by impacting all aspects of the development process from ideation, design, delivery, maintenance, and operations
Collaborate with teammates to come up with solutions to architectural and scaling challenges
Work cross-functionally and with end-users (revenue teams) to craft the best experience possible
Help shape the future of Scratchpad's culture and product
Perks
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 80% premium coverage)
$1,200 L&D stipend per fiscal year
Paid parental leave
Flexible Vacation/PTO + 11 company-wide holidays
401k with 4% company matching (and vests instantly!)
Stipend for home office
At least two in-person company offsites a year
Fully remote
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $172,000 - $200,000. Compensation estimates are based on market data about the role and level while individual compensation offers will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
**Our Commitment **
We believe that great ideas can come from anyone and anywhere. As an equal opportunity employer, we interact with respect, kindness, and compassion. We are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion. We're not afraid to let go of existing beliefs as we learn new information and uncover better ideas.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Diverse teams build better products, offer more unique perspectives and help foster an inclusive environment for everyone.
Backend Engineer Meter San Francisco, United States $130,000 to $210,000 a year
June 2023
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Internet and WiFi are critical to every business. Meter is building the software, operations, and hardware solutions to make getting online easier. Our mission is to make companies of all sizes more productive and secure through providing great internet infrastructure. We believe every building should come with internet, networking, and WiFi; just like water, gas, and electricity, the internet is a fundamental utility.
Unlike traditional internet solutions, Meter’s approach is vertically-integrated across engineering and operations. We design and manufacture our own hardware, develop the entire software stack, and manage our users’ network. Meter’s software and hardware solutions allow our users to focus on what’s most important to them: running their business.
We are looking for people who are excited to work on complex problems, enjoy learning and working with others, and above all, are kind and ambitious. We are building for the long term and just getting started. We'd love your help.
About the role
This role will be focused on helping scale the Meter Network Dashboard. Dashboard is at the core of how our user’s manage and observe their networks. It’s also where our future products that build on networks, will live. Meter owns the entire hardware and software stack and this enables us to unlock value for our customers at a scale not seen in the industry yet. You will be a core member of this team - helping craft the vision for this product, building the underlying data models, APIs, and working with a cross-functional team to scale this to thousands of businesses. You will also be working with large data sets that Meter collects in order to provide valuable insights to our customers.
This role is based out of our San Francisco office. Our in-office days are Tuesday - Thursday.
You will have impact by:
Making it easy for our customers to manage and observe their networks
Helping Meter scale as it increases its hardware footprint
Directly enabling your colleagues' productivity by building internal tools
Influencing the roadmap of our software teams
You might be a good fit if you have:
4+ years professional software development experience
Strong working knowledge of modern backend cloud ecosystem
Strong understanding of designing APIs and modeling data
Experience in building highly scalable architectures
GoLang or Python development experience
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
Networking experience
If you are at all interested in joining us
Tell us a little bit about yourself, why you are interested in what we are doing, and any relevant experience you have
Attach your resume
Include links to LinkedIn, GitHub, any code samples, or blog posts
The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows
$120,000 – $242,000
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Meter's equity plan.
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the Bay Area. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors such as your skills, qualifications and experience.
Senior Backend Engineer Phil Remote (United States) $180,000 to $200,000 a year
January 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
The Company
Founded in 2015, Phil is a San Francisco-based Series D health-tech startup, pioneering a software therapy deployment platform, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers a modern alternative to traditional access, affordability and distribution options. Through its digital stakeholder experiences, patient access services, market access solutions and distribution models, pharma manufacturers are able to deliver affordable and timely therapy access to patients. For more information on Phil, visit https://phil.us/
Job description
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build and scale our backend workflow engine/platform
The Job
Design and implement a rule-based workflow engine that handles complex prescription management and processing logic
Develop tools and algorithms to test and measure the performance of the workflow engine
Work closely with product managers to understand business problem, help them with technical feasibility of the implementation, requirement validation, and review the designs as well as business flows
Design, implement, test, and launch Phil's backend services and API platform for multiple consumer apps.
Work collaboratively with remote Dev and QA teams reviewing implementation and answering queries about the platform. -Strong motivation to clean technical debt keeping an eye on new business flows, evolving requirements, and platform scalability and robustness
Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code
Full stack development with knowledge of javascript frameworks like React, Angular etc a plus.
Requirements
Experience building rules engine-based processing and or workflow management systems
Experience building and maintaining secure, end-to-end systems and services using any language. Experience in golang and MongoDB prefered
Deep understanding of algorithms and efficient data structures
Experience working with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle – ranging from architecture and design to implementation and testing.
Strong critical thinking, debugging and problem solving skills
Experience building systems and services for health-tech company is preferred
Sense of ownership: you would develop, manage, and evolve the core logic of Phil platform and features
Strong interest in understanding the underlying business and the problem we want to solve using technology
Benefits
Ground floor opportunity with one of the fastest-growing startups in health-tech
Solve a problem that matters: be part of a company that uniquely leverages technology to bring wellness to all of its stakeholders
Competitive compensation (commensurate with experience) including meaningful stock options
Staff Software Engineer Quizlet Denver, CO, United States $120,000 to $200,000 a year
May 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Quizlet’s mission is to help students (and their teachers) practice and master whatever they are learning. Every month more than 50 million active learners from 130 countries practice and master more than 300 million study sets on every conceivable topic and subject. We are developing new learning experiences by modeling how students learn and drawing upon knowledge acquisition, retention, and pedagogy in cognitive science. We are always seeking to help students master any subject by optimizing study efficiency and engagement.
This is a full-time position at our new Denver, CO office. We are looking for a passionate individual who will join us as one of the founding members of the Denver office and share our stories through technical blog posts, meet-ups, and conferences.
Required Qualifications
6+ years experience building web applications
Experience working with both client-side and server-side technologies
Experience leading complex technical projects
Proficiency with server API design and data modeling
Polyglot developer (e.g. Java, NodeJS, Python)
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency with service architecture
Proficiency with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
Proficiency with React and browser technologies
Proficiency with distributed service architecture
Quizlet Engineering consists of Pods, here’s a preview...
Agora: Team Agora builds the Premium marketplace which helps people that are studying for high stakes exams. Imagine you're taking the Bar Exam, studying to get your CPA or the Series 7 in finance. If you get it right, it's career altering. The team brings content from trusted vendors like Kaplan, Pearson and Elsevier to help studiers. The effort just got going, and it's a bit like a startup within a startup.
Subs Growth: The team takes pride in keeping Quizlet free for anyone to use. Free access is made possible by our growing base of power users (both students and teachers) who pay to subscribe to our premium features. Our focus is to improve our renewals, creating compelling upsell experiences, explore new payment options, offer different plans that meets users’ need as Quizlet grow internationally.
We hope you are excited about everything you read so far. We highly encourage you to apply for this position, even if you feel you do not meet all the requirements. Quizlet is always looking for amazing folks that believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways - not merely candidates that fit a certain mold.
Quizlet's Team Culture
We are here to make education better and more accessible. We strive to improve the lives of students and teachers at every stage and in every setting. We have a bias for action, take initiative, and hustle to deliver results. We make informed decisions whenever possible but are unafraid to take calculated risks on great ideas to promote learning. We embrace challenges and see effort as the path to mastery. We’re constantly seeking opportunities to learn and we embrace curiosity. Quality matters at Quizlet, and we hold the bar high on everything we do. We sweat the details and take personal accountability and pride in anything that carries the Quizlet name. We speak up, jump in and work with each other to fix problems, and never say "that's not my job." We treat each other with honesty and respect, encourage vigorous debate, and seek critical feedback. We value diversity, humility, transparency, and collaboration as the best paths to our success — as individuals, as a team, and as a company.
Quizlet’s success as an online learning community depends on a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are actively working to build a team that is representative of the diverse communities we serve, and an open, inclusive work environment where all employees can thrive. As an equal opportunity employer and a tech company committed to societal change, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join us!
Software Engineer - Infrastructure Tooling Segment San Francisco / Vancouver / New York, United States / Remote $115,000 to $230,000 a year
August 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Who We Are
We’re a small team of experienced engineers with diverse technical backgrounds. We’re passionate about driving our coworkers’ success and building the next generation of software tooling. If you want to work on distributed systems infrastructure and development practices or you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to make something that your peers use every day, we’d love for you to join us.
Tooling handles many different areas, so we’re building a diverse team with a wide range of expertise.
What We Do
- We build shared infrastructure and tools to make engineering more productive, reliable, and cost effective.
- We maintain several Segment Open Source projects.
- We work in Go, Terraform and a bit of Node.js.
- Read more about Segment’s infrastructure and how we use: distributed logging and secure secrets. Or, read our code: conf, ksuid, cwlogs, go-prompt, ecs-logs, chamber.
- We manage the tooling and process around development environments, testing, CI, and deployment.
- Read more on our blog about how we use: CI and Make.
Who we are looking for:
You care about simple, practical, reliable, and secure software implementation and the kinds of process needed to produce it.
You can research a messy, complicated problem and design an approach that makes working in that area easy and consistent.
You empathize with the rest of your company, listen to them, and take pride in supporting their work.
Projects we’re working on:
Per-Engineer Dev Environments
Logging Pipeline Development
AWS Rate Limit Monitoring
Application Deployment Improvements
Self-Hosted CI
Incident Management Automation
Large Scale JSON Stream Data Manipulation Tools
Standardized Metrics and Alerting Infrastructure
Consistent Runbooks and Documentation
Requirements
Minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer, devops engineer, or site reliability engineer.
You have experience with AWS, Docker, Go, Node.js, or Terraform.
You are motivated to support your coworkers and make them productive.
You are a self-directed problem solver.
Bonus
Building tooling for distributed systems development.
Working on or with a variety of engineering teams.
Site Reliability Engineer Rebellion Defense Washington, DC / Chicago, Illinois, United States $100,000 to $200,000 a year
November 2020
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). As an SRE, you will be tasked with the reliability and operation of our production environments. SREs are tasked with ensuring teams within the company receive help maintaining software at scale, as well as help designing and developing software for scale. SREs are expected to engage with the product teams to ensure the delivery of our software is as seamless as possible.
These position is based out of our Washington D.C. or Chicago Illinois office locations. An active clearance or ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance will be required.
We look for a track record of the following:
Coming alongside high energy engineering teams to enable the adoption of best practices to enable the scalability and reliability of deployed software,
Defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure,
Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production services,
Experience facilitating the definition and implementation of SLIs and SLOs,
Understanding how to carefully spend error budget to handle regular deployment of large changes to production,
Deep experience in Linux operating systems, and systems engineering,
Comfort delivering critical software in Go and Python,
Willingness to debug problems across the stack,
Comfortability with working on underspecified problems and are capable of rapidly learning and iterating on solutions,
Experience building the wrong system enough times to avoid the common pitfalls, whether building something personally or advising others.
You might be a good fit if you:
5+ years of relevant SRE experience in the tech industry,
demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security and experience supporting web application architecture,
experience working with a variety of storage systems, application architectures, compute infrastructure and network management systems,
experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production service,
defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure,
proven knowledge at least one higher-level language (eg. Python and Golang),
The ability and desire to build and learn new systems with new technologies.
Rebellion is a well-capitalized technology start-up firm that is passionate about defining and delivering modern, life-changing software products to the US Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), and their allies. At Rebellion we believe in operating what we own, we deliver all of our products as managed services, this allows our product teams to maintain operational ownership across all deployments. Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers.
Compensation includes meaningful equity ownership, competitive salaries, full medical coverage, disability and life insurance, and transit reimbursement.
An Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
Rebellion Defense is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Rebellion Defense does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
At Horizon, we’re building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants.
We have two amazing products to make this real:
Sequence, which consists of i) the first user-friendly smart wallet for crypto, NFTs, Web3 + the metaverse, and ii) a developer platform to make building Web3 applications easy on Ethereum and other EVM chains.
And Skyweaver, a digital trading card game—powered by Sequence—where players can win, own, trade and sell their NFT game items.
Sequence is poised to drive Web3 adoption on a massive scale by making blockchain easy, fun and powerful for users and developers. And, Skyweaver is a groundbreaking video game with an unprecedented player-owned economy, novel gameplay, and an already fervent community.
While the challenge is hard, we find it incredibly fun. And, we have the ingredients to make it happen: a well-capitalized company with some of the best investors in the world (Reddit co-founder, Coinbase, Initialized, and more), an amazing team of leaders in the blockchain space, engineers who have built widely popular open source, a former top McKinsey strategy consultant, gaming industry veterans, and founders who have built and sold successful companies. You'll get to work with and learn from them all. Learn more at https://horizon.io/
About the Role
We're looking for someone with experience architecting, writing, testing and shipping production-quality code in Go, with a background in Ethereum development. You are rigourous and have a refined eye for simple arhitecture and clean code, and you are able to balance tradeoffs inherent in all design decisions.
You enjoy building scalable, fault-tolerant systems. You understand the meaning of value and delivering products that achieve business outcomes while laying the foundation of great tech that affects our entire org, and is impactful. This matters to you.
As a senior engineer, you have a deep understanding of designing robust, well-designed code with thoughtful architecture. You can drive and self-direct major areas of our stack. While not a strict requirement, you are comfortable working with and guiding more intermediate and junior engineers when needed.
Given our size, self-driven, and open-minded engineers will thrive best in this role. While small, you'll be working alongside some of the best engineers, and open-source contributors—and a company dedicated to your success. You will learn a lot.
Responsibilities:
-Architect, develop, and implement the infrastructure, and infrastructure stack of Skyweaver and Sequence
-Design and implement services that are scalable, and fault-tolerant
-Build services that interface with the Ethereum blockchain
-Contribute to open source works in the Sequence stack
-Extend and evolve our toolchain, to run our stack effectively
-Design architectural foundations that are robust and sound, so that future engineers can build on your work with ease and speed
Requirements:
-5+ years shipping production-grade code in Go
-Experience and knowledge of the Ethereum blockchain, its tooling and ecosystem
-Knowledge of distributed systems design
-Experience with data systems, both in their design and practical use
-Experience with one of the major cloud providers, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
-Growth mindset. You love to learn, and actively search out new material and technologies
Why Horizon?
· A chance to deliver massive impact at a small and quickly growing company
· Competitive salary and equity package
· Accelerate your career by joining at the early stages
· Be part of defining Web3, the next generation of the Internet, and creating symbiotic economies where both users and creators share in the value generated by networks
· Work with an outstanding team made of wonderful people who have built and sold successful companies, launched amazing products, and have rich experience in infrastructure, architecture, blockchain, games, finance, investing, strategy, consulting, design, marketing, community, and more.
· Work life balance unlike the “crunch” culture you find at larger studios
· New PC, and generous allowance for work-from-home setup
· Health, vision and dental benefits for Canadian employees
· We’re conscious about mental health and have modern vacation policies
· We invest in everyone’s personal development and subsidize courses, books, and conferences, so you never stop learning
· Work on hard, big, meaningful problems that can shift markets
· Learn more about our values and the traits we embody at https://careers.horizon.io/
We are committed to diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, genders and faiths. While we're building incredible products, we also want to add to our wonderful team and company. The best way to do that is to attract talented folks from all areas and to have their experiences inform their work.
Here at Volume, we work with the best partners to make decentralized finance protocols valuable. We solve problems of protocol utility, governance and growth for the leading DeFi protocols. From our team effort, we are able to drive massive growth of user transactions and the launch of the protocol economy. If a protocol fails to attract user activity, token value falters and innovation will flow away from the network.
Volume delivers software tools and user experiences that increase protocol token utility and community engagement, measured by protocol transaction volume growth. The Volume team’s interests are the protocol interests: Growth of user transactions.
Volume successfully launched Sommelier’s first iteration as PeggyJV, bringing the Cosmos Ethereum bridge to market and resulted in Sommelier raising a total $25MM in funding to launch the first automated DeFi blockchain to manage Liquidity Provider capital on Ethereum via the Cosmos. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use Sommelier to author and execute complex, automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, as well as a host of other features that token holders have come to expect from centralized finance (CeFi), but that are not currently available in DeFi.
Our investors include Polychain Capital, Alameda Ventures, Standard Crypto and Multicoin.
We are always looking for individuals who desire a high impact, high visibility role within a company that is making crypto and decentralized protocols valuable.
About the Role:
As a Senior Golang Engineer on our Engineering team, you will have a chance to work across the full spectrum of our protocol architecture that is built around the Cosmos-SDK, built in Golang, Rust and Solidity. Our software empowers Sommelier validators to secure the Sommelier network which offers financial automation globally. As an early employee you will be a critical part of our core team and have a significant influence over the direction of the company.the direction of the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Participating in and driving technical specifications, design, architecture, and implementation for new features on the Cosmos SDK
Writing reusable libraries and custom logic for blockchain state machines and ensuring solid test coverage
Participating in code reviews
Minimizing tech debt while strategically pushing for progress with new features
Help scale the team and create our engineering culture
Participation and leading coordination for one or more of the SDK’s architecture working groups
REQUIREMENTS
3+ years working with Go in production, as well as solid experience in some other programming languages
Degree in Computer Science, required
Able to meet deadlines deliverables
You enjoy learning and digging into open source code, committing on other projects
You can organize yourself well, and can work in an agile manner
You enjoy a healthy balance between working autonomously and collaborating closely with peers through pairing sessions and architecture design meetings
You enjoy analyzing solutions and can participate in defining good architecture
Good written communication in English is essential
Previous experience working remotely and/or leading teams is a plus
Previous experience maintaining open source software (particularly libraries and/or frameworks), a plus
Previous experience working with the Cosmos SDK or related technologies, a plus
You are passionate about blockchain, have used DeFi dApps and believe in the opportunity of decentralization and blockchains to change how the financial world works today
You thrive in a startup environment and feel best working in a small, cross-functional team where you can roll up your sleeves and be hands on
You have an interest in working in a self organizing environment and bring creativity to start your own initiatives within the Cosmos Stargate SDK
About Volume:
Volume is a dynamic start-up company, and our successful candidate must have the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment. As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.
Volume is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.
We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.