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Back-End Software Engineer Conductor New York, United States $100,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2019
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join our exceptional team of distributed systems engineers. We have embarked on a mission to create highly-scalable and performant micro-services that handle tera-bytes of data and analytics that feed into beautifully designed custom data visualizations. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing and testing new and existing systems that power our flagship product and help humanize the way content marketers interact with customers. Most importantly, your leadership as a senior and experienced member of the team will become an example for others to follow, and you will help shape and define our engineering practices and craftsmanship.
Our Engineering Values
Collaboration: We believe that engineers do their best work when working together in cohesive teams.
Excellence: We believe in doing things the "right way" rather than the "fast way", and holding ourselves to a high standard of excellence.
Growth: We believe engineers do their best work when they are constantly growing, learning, and changing.
Communication: We believe in combining empathy with openness and honesty to set clear expectations and hold each other accountable.
Impact: We believe we're making the world a better place by empowering marketers to really help their customers rather than just sell stuff.
What you'll be doing
Writing beautiful API documentation for all the services you and the team builds for consumption by other developers (we use Swagger).
Design and architect scalable services that are both highly available and performant.
Breaking down product requirements into manageable stories and delegating work to team members.
Refactoring and evolving existing distributed systems to make legacy systems anew.
Collaborating with other functions of the business and engineering department to ensure successful delivery of software.
Who you are:
A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
8+ years working in backend technologies in addition to Java such as Scala, Python, Golang or a combination of
8+ years working in databases such as MySQL, Postgres or other RDBMS systems
8+ years working with cloud-hosting and deep understanding of AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
3-5+ years working with Docker containers and deep understanding of the internals of how containers work
3-5+ years working with non-relational databases such as Cassandra or Dynamo
3-5+ years building and deploying containers into managed clusters with Kubernetes or equivalent
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Proven professional experience working with non-technical business functions
You enjoy collaborating with product management teams to ensure the best quality product is shipped out the door
You have a keen appreciation for usability and understand your users come first when designing systems
Why You Should Join
At Conductor, we are looking for engaged and passionate engineers that can raise the bar. There is a tremendous opportunity here to have immediate impact in the day-to-day and affect the company's success and growth. We all share in the same values and push each other to meet these standards.
We are made up of a diverse group of people from all backgrounds and include a team of exceptional engineers in Kyiv as well. Wherever you are from, you will find a common ground here for continuing to push forward your career and make a difference in this industry.
Conductor, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
About Conductor
Conductor’s search and content intelligence platform helps marketers create and optimize content to improve visibility online.
The technology generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts.
In addition to its SaaS platform, Conductor offers a suite of services and support including site audits, site migrations, and managed services that empower in-house marketing teams and digital marketing agencies to drive results and put their customers' needs first.
Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global and emerging enterprise brands like Citibank, Salesforce, ClassPass, and WeWork.
Software Engineer (Generalist) StackRox Mountain View, United States $140,000 to $180,000 a year
July 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Are you passionate about building high performant products or using cutting edge technologies? Are you interested in defining our products, working closely with Product Management, in a fast-paced Agile environment? Are you looking to be impactful and contribute to engineering initiatives to achieve product goals with excellence? StackRox has an opportunity for you where you can contribute your skills, expertise, ingenuity and passion to help us succeed in our mission!
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a software engineer who is skilled in building large scale distributed software systems that are highly performant while reducing the cost of deployment in cloud infrastructures. The ideal candidate cares deeply about performance, resource footprint, elegant coding with a great understanding of data structures and algorithms for enterprise-grade products, and is a fearless experimenter with a willingness to try new things. You'll fit right in if you like solving challenging problems by architecting elegant solutions, designing algorithms and writing code.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
1+ years of experience in software engineering, algorithm design and systems development
Experience developing in Golang, C/C++, Java, or Python, with a language agnostic attitude toward development
Strong ability to define problems, formulate solutions, effectively collaborate and communicate, plan and execute
Ability to work boldly with a sense of urgency: embrace mistakes, learn from them, and help drive the team toward success
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience with Docker or Kubernetes, and Linux containerization technology
Experience with private and public cloud design considerations in the areas of virtualization, distributed systems, load balancing and networking, large scale data storage, and/or security
Experience with distributed system orchestrators, scalable messaging systems, and large throughput data processing systems
Experience with low level Linux containerization subsystems (cgroups, namespaces), other containerization/virtualization systems, or related subsystems like scheduling or networking
Expertise with a broad range of data structures, algorithms, and software design, with strong debugging skills
ABOUT US
StackRox helps enterprises secure their cloud-native applications at scale from container build and deployment through runtime. Founded in 2014 by Sameer Bhalotra (former White House senior director for cybersecurity) and Ali Golshan (former co-founder and CTO of Cyphort), StackRox has assembled a team of experts in security, infrastructure, and machine learning. StackRox enables security teams to centralize container deployment governance, visualize the container attack surface, expose malicious activity, and stop attacker activity. It combines a new security architecture, machine learning, and protective actions to disrupt attacks in real time and limit their impact. Partnered with Docker, Amazon, Google, IBM and Red Hat, StackRox is the choice of both Global 2000 and emerging cloud-native enterprise companies.
Senior Software Engineer Bolt San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States, Canada) $130,000 to $180,000 a year
June 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We are witnessing a massive shift of consumer presence from offline to online. With it, there is a need for technologies that enable online businesses to thrive. Bolt is at the center of this universe leading the next generation of ecommerce, having created a best-in-class buying experience from checkout to fraud detection, payments and more. With our help, retailers can successfully compete with the online retail giants that have the means to invest in technology.
The Buying Experience (BX) team based out of San Francisco is responsible for systems that handle all necessary functions to buy products online. Checkout UI collects and verifies user and payment data, tokenization service stores credit card information securely, risk system provides risk analysis and payment backend supports all necessary financial operations across multiple payment gateways and alternative payment methods. Millions of dollars flow through these every day and we take stability, performance and perfection seriously.
We are looking for someone who is excited when facing big challenges, thrives when given autonomy to figure out solutions and loves diving deep into complex systems. If this describes you, get in touch with us!
You will:
Work with a passionate, smart and ambitious team of engineers who built large scale systems at Uber, AirBnB, Facebook and Google (https://www.bolt.com/team).
Take ownership, champion best practices, and help grow one of the strongest engineering teams in San Francisco.
Design and build mission critical systems, products and solutions that companies and consumers alike will rely heavily on.
Contribute cross stack and learn wide variety of skills and technologies.
Work with production systems and on-call process.
Learn from and help shape our company's engineering culture.
Are excited about jumping into any area of technology
Have strong communication skills
Perks:
Competitive compensation
Flexible Paid Time Off
Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, Dental and Vision
Retirement plans
Commuter Benefits + Safe rides programs
Gym and wellness subsidy
Cell phone reimbursement
Monthly team events
Pet friendly office
Fully stocked kitchen
Paid parental leave
Awesome teammates!
Bolt is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Argyle is a remote-first, Series A fast-growing tech startup that has reimagined how we can use employment data.
Renting an apartment, buying a car, refinancing a home, applying for a loan. The first question that they will ask you is, "how do you earn your money?" Wouldn’t you think that information foundational to our society would be simple to manage, transfer and control? Well, it’s not!
Argyle provides businesses with a single global access point to employment data. Any company can process work verifications, gain real-time transparency into earnings and view worker profile details.
We are a fun and passionate group of people, all working remotely across 19 different countries and counting. We are now looking for Senior Backend Engineers to come and join our team.
What will you do?
Experience and a big passion for API design, scalability, performance and end-to-end ownership
Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Argyle's engineering teams
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale
Managing k8s clusters with GitOps driven approach
Operating databases with large datasets
Concurrent systems programming
What are we looking for
Enjoy and have experience building APIs
Think about systems and services and write high-quality code. We work mostly in Python & Go. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
Why Argyle?
Remote first company
International environment
Flexible working hours
Stock Options
Flexible vacation leave
$1000 after a month of employment to set up your home office.
MacBook
Argyle embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.
Site Reliability Engineer Rebellion Defense Washington, DC / Chicago, Illinois, United States $100,000 to $200,000 a year
November 2020
4 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.
Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.
We want people who are passionate about building the systems, culture, and processes that will improve the resiliency, reliability, scaling, and performance for cloud services.
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to work closely with our product engineering and infrastructure teams. Reporting to the Director of Platform Systems, the Site Reliability Engineer will be performing a mix of hands-on development, coaching, and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to help bring DigitalOcean’s engineering systems and culture up to the next level.
This is a key opportunity to make a significant impact in DigitalOcean’s engineering and operational systems and influence future product designs and requirements. This role is essential to accelerate the improvement of the high expectations our customers have of DigitalOcean as we continue to grow and expand.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Performing hands on technical work to directly improve the reliability, resiliency, and scaling of our key platform systems
Working with stakeholders to develop and implement reliability and performance metrics
Facilitate DigitalOcean’s culture of learning by providing insight and recommendations for improvement
Coaching teams and individuals on reliability best practices and solutions
Working with other SREs and engineering leaders to define the architectures and practices that should be adopted in order to deliver on our engineering and operational goals
Establishing best practices for development, architecture, deployment, and operations
Working with peer SREs to improve services and processes (including architecture reviews, incident response, monitoring) in a cross-functional manner throughout the engineering organization
What We’ll Expect From You:
Distinguished track record as SRE (or similar role) with hands-on experience implementing reliability, process, and scaling solutions
History of fostering positive relationships with stakeholders and a track record of successful collaboration and coaching
Clear communication skills (both written and verbal) to document processes and architectures
Experience implementing disaster recovery best practices
Developing robust solutions that facilitate streamlined resolution of customer inquiries through use of technologies for automation, deflection, and issue management
Adept in Ruby and Go with a broad understanding of the full technology stack for a modern infrastructure
Advocate of effective development environments with the use of CI/CD tooling and configuration management technologies such as Chef or Ansible
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to onboard in-office and take an all-expenses paid trip to our annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Principal Software Engineer SendGrid Denver, Colorado, United States $130,000 to $170,000 a year
October 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
The Principal Software Engineer opening is an exciting opportunity to join SendGrid’s Customer Growth Engineering team, developing features and software that impact all points of the customer lifecycle. You’ll make a tremendous impact with the team that spearheads microservice development and operability at SendGrid, using the latest distributed systems programming techniques and technologies like rate limiting, circuit breakers and multi-datacenter (including AWS). You’ll bring the ability and experience to write complex backend services, communicate effectively with cross functional teams, and have a tremendous drive to hone your craft.
Denver is our global headquarters and home to the Customer Growth Engineering team, our revenue growth engine - which your efforts will directly impact.
What You’ll Do
Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
Design entire systems from scratch, end-to-end, that can fit into the SendGrid architecture
Develop solutions for complex problems both independently and with team members
Work with other teams to troubleshoot/determine resolution for complex issues across team domains
Focus on designing and implementing systems for scalability, testability, supportability and maintainability
Use your foresight and experience to keep our systems effectively running now and in the future through profiling, load testing, failure testing, monitoring and much more to have confidence in the robustness of the systems we deploy
Lead team initiatives and implementations from conception to completion
Recommend and champion improvements to our software and product development process
Drive improvements in quality of team's work output
Go Full Stack Engineer SwitftComply United States (Remote) $145,000 to $175,000 a year
July 2023
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Go Full Stack Engineer
Bring your full self to work.
SwiftComply strives to create an environment for all to participate, be authentic, and feel valued.
We are committed to building an equitable workplace that moves our company and industry forward and know there is work to be done in advancing diversity and inclusion.
About the role
As a Go Full Stack Engineer, you will help develop our software and be empowered to take on tasks as part of a small and growing team.
In this role, you will:
Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions using Go Language, microservices, Postgres database, and Google Cloud Platform
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and functionality that meet the needs of our customers
Develop and maintain APIs that integrate with third-party systems and applications
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that follows best practices and coding standards
Ensure the quality and stability of the software through testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team
Work independently and effectively manage time and priorities to meet deadlines and deliverables
Collaborate with a remote team in a highly distributed and self-managed environment
Who you are
We are seeking a new member to join our Engineering team! This might be a great team for you if you thrive in a setting that you can:
Be self-motivated and work independently as part of a small team, proactively consulting with the team for tasks as opposed to waiting to be assigned one
Use your communication/interpersonal skills to collaborate with a remote team
Demonstrate excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to build creative solutions
Manage priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment to build a software that impacts the future of water and environment
Experiences that could help you succeed in this role include:
5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on building enterprise, multi-tenant solutions
Experience building complex applications using Go Language, microservices, Postgres database, and Google Cloud Platform services; strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
Solid understanding of software development principles, including agile methodologies, version control, and automated testing
Experience designing and optimizing databases applications that can scale and maintain security
Experience developing and maintaining APIs that integrate with third-party systems and applications
Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code that follows best practices and coding standards
Experience ensuring the quality and stability of the software through testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and functionality that meet the needs of customers
Experience providing technical guidance and mentorship to the team
Bonus points:
Experience in integration and platform development
Experience managing the exchange of data between various systems and applications
Excited about making a positive impact with SwiftComply but don’t feel you meet 100% of the list? If you’re excited about working with us, we’d still love to hear from you!
Benefits
Healthcare - we offer medical, dental, and vision insurance with an HSA option
Life insurance - we offer free life insurance plan for you
401(k) - we provide pre-tax/roth options and the company makes a contribution equal to 3% of your compensation, regardless of your contribution amount
Remote - we work remotely and provide a $1000 home office setup stipend
Time off - we offer 31 paid days off (PTO, holidays, birthday, etc; 1 additional day off provided for each year you’re with the company) and encourage you to take time for vacation, wellness day, etc, for a positive work-life balance
Parental leave - we want you to enjoy some time with your new addition to the family with paid leave
Compensation
$145-175k/yr
*To provide equitable pay, we benchmark our compensation. This is the data provided at the time we created this job description. We will re-evaluate the range at the time of offer and thus this range is subject to change.
Please note: Offer is contingent upon a successful completion of a background check. And we are unable to sponsor visas at this time; you must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident authorized to work in the US.
About SwiftComply
SwiftComply is an award-winning early-stage technology company with a mission to protect human health and the environment with an all-in-one cloud-based software that empowers local governments to easily manage their water, wastewater, and stormwater compliance programs.
We were founded in 2016 by our founder and CEO, Mick O’Dwyer. As a water & wastewater engineer at Dublin City Council (Ireland), Mick saw first hand how manual, paper-based and inefficient compliance programs can be. He created SwiftComply to fix this problem with modern, collaborative technology.
Today, SwiftComply supports over 400+ utilities that deliver water service to 50+ million citizens - and we’re expanding the team to make an even bigger impact!
Cloud Developer Humanex Ventures Remote (United States) $60,000 to $75,000 a year
November 2021
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Position Description:
Full-time professionals work from our offices in Lincoln, NE; Kalamazoo, MI; or remotely. This role collaborates with a growing team through creating and improving system architecture. This includes contributing to the development of new tools and processes while sharing knowledge and expertise.
Team & Culture Fit Desired
Do you see technology as an opportunity to equip and support others?
Are you driven by a high moral/ethical code that you are unwilling to compromise?
Are you a self-starter who looks for ways to exceed expectations?
Do you enjoy working on a small, close-knit team while collaborating and learning with others?
Do you constantly seek out new information and skills to better yourself personally and professionally?
Do you enjoy solving problems?
Do you approach your work in a consistent and intentional manner?
Do you have a passion for impacting students, student athletes, coaches, teachers, business professionals, and leaders?
Knowledge, Skill, & Experience Desired
Minimum of 2 years of workplace programming experience preferred
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information systems, or equivalent experience preferred
Experience with Go or .NET preferred
Extensive experience in back-end system development
Experience working with Cloud Services preferred (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong written and verbal communication
Role Responsibilities
Develop and maintain web-based SAAS systems
Implement custom systems and modify or configure existing systems
Troubleshoot system issues using analytical skills to identify and resolve root causes
Participate in design and code reviews
Other Benefits
* Flexible work location – work from anywhere in the US!
* Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
* Short & Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
* Employee Assistance Program
* 401k with Company Match Potential
* Annual Bonus Potential
* Paid Time Off
About Us
Humanex Ventures transforms communities by helping organizational leaders select and develop people based on who they are and create positive, engaging work environments. Our research-based talent and culture assessments, online tools, trainings, executive coaching, and more have positively influenced the lives of thousands of educators, students, coaches, athletes, and professionals across the U.S. and beyond. By joining our team, you will experience this impact firsthand as we help you maximize your talents, challenge and support you as you grow, and include you in our collaborative, innovative team culture. We look forward to getting to know you and impacting more lives with your help!
Senior Backend Engineer Kava Labs Remote (United States) $120,000 to $180,000 a year
July 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Kava Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer for the Kava lending platform, Kava's blockchain solution enabling decentralized stable coins, bonds, and lending for crypto users. This is a full timeremote position. Candidates can apply from time zones ranging from PST (USA Pacific), to CET (Central Europe). We are looking for your experience and perspective to contribute to our growing company and culture! We are a 100% distributed workforce with teams in the US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.
You will be directly developing and deploying on a platform that is worth $500M and working to have $1B+ assets under management by the software. You will work alongside a team of world class crypto experts, and take ownership of an open-source project on a platform that transfers millions of dollars in assets daily and provide the financial primitives for the next evolution in crypto. You will have a huge impact on product and technology development.
What You Will Do.
Write financial applications using a blockchain application framework written in Go-lang called the Cosmos SDK.
Write interoperability software for communicating between blockchains (IBC relayer, BEP 3 Deputy).
Write supporting applications and developer tools in Golang that are used by Kava developers or users of the Kava DeFi platform.
Familiarize yourself with the Kava codebase and related components of the cosmos-sdk (Kava, Tendermint)
Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
Work with Kava blockchain engineers to optimize performance and squash bugs.
Report to the Head of Engineering and attend Daily Stand-up meetings via Zoom.
Who You Are.
7+ years minimum as an experienced Backend Engineer, at least 3 years in senior position required.
You are a strong individual contributor in Go with 3+ years of experience.
You have solid engineering fundamentals, a computer science degree is preferred.
You are comfortable working in an open source environment, your work is out there for everyone to see and scrutinize.
You are meticulous and detail oriented. This is financial software, it’s of utmost importance that it is secure.
You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
You have an interest in blockchains and decentralized technologies. A willingness to learn is a must.
A self-starting and ambitious attitude that thrives in a startup environment.
Committed to values of diversity, equity, and inclusion reflected in all aspects
What We Offer.
🤩 The chance to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders.
🤓 A learning environment where you can deep-dive into the frontier of blockchain technologies and make an impact to active users.
💰 Competitive salary.
📈 Competitive stock options.
🤫 Token grants for exploration, investment, and/or profit.
💪 $200 monthly stipend for health and wellness.
🏝 Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it.
🦷 Medical, dental and vision insurance for employees.
👵 401(k) matching.
🏡 A remote work environment with an international and diverse team.
About Kava Labs.
We are a remote-first, globally distributed team that values first principle thinking, experimentation, and learning to ensure long-term success. We are not dogmatic in our approach, but we are relentless in our pursuit to create impactful technology for the future. We have a diverse set of backgrounds, skills, and culture but we’re all united in our passion about building new open financial infrastructure — together, so that our efforts will make a real impact and create lasting change in the world.
With backing from leading blockchain investors including Ripple, Digital Asset Fund, and Arrington XRP Capital, we’re constantly pushing the bounds of DeFi and blockchain technology to bring new products and innovation to the world.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Kava is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. and celebrates the diversity of its growing team.
All applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.
Recruitment agencies and consultants may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Kava Labs does not accept unsolicited agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Kava Labs.