Backend Developer Blocksize Capital Frankfurt, Germany β¬50,000 to β¬60,000 a year
September 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Blocksize Capital
Blocksize Capital makes the DLT- and Blockchain-based asset market accessible for financial institutions. Our software solution delegates all tasks and challenges related to managing Digital Assets, ranging from trading and reporting to managing an entire portfolio. Our clients consist of asset managers, family offices and institutional investors.
About the job
As a Backend Developer you will be joining our development team focusing on extending and maintaining our backend infrastructure. Your main tasks will include to consolidate and interface with different blockchains, exchanges and third-party data providers to provide a unified API to be used by our clients or the in-house-developed trading frontend. You will help us to continuously improve our robust and low-latency infrastructure capable of handling large amounts of data while remaining highly scalable under different demands.
Our tech stack
Go, gRPC
Postgresql
Kubernetes, Docker
Prometheus, Grafana
GCP
Your profile
You are a passionate backend software developer with experience in the area of modern software / system architectures
You have successfully completed a degree in computer science, business informatics, business information systems or equivalent
You are interested in financial concepts and the realm of Blockchain / DLT
You share our love for Go
Requirements
You have profound experience in the development and consumption of REST & WebSocket APIs, preferably using Go
You are fluent in different microservice design/communication patterns
You are comfortable in testing and documenting infrastructure and APIs
You are able to perform basic CRUD operations using SQL
Nice to Have
You have had experience with DevOps tooling, such as: Shell scripting, CI/CD (Gitlab), Kubernetes
You know your way around cloud provider offerings (GCP)
You are proficient in complex SQL-queries
What weβre offering
Become part of a young and agile team
Take an interest in topics that are really fun, interesting and challenging
Leave your footprint, because your ideas and solutions are important to us!
The result counts! We pursue a flexible working time and workplace model (home office)
Excellent infrastructure of your choice (Apple, BYOD, Coursera, Gym, etc.)
If weβve got you interested, apply now to learn more about Blocksize Capital and the role!
Centrifuge is growing and we need your help to build the future of open, decentralized business software. Join our team building a decentralized business operating system on top of public blockchains.
You are either already an expert in distributed ledgers/blockchain/Ethereum or wish to become one. You want to join a team of technologists, who really care about writing high quality, open source code. You are self-motivated and don't need many directions to get a job done together with your teammates. We are knowledgeable, curious, and nice people, who have a shared vision to re-shape the world of business software. We would love to hear from you if this feels like a good home for you.
Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable, secure code for distributed applications.
- Write Solitidy code and create the corresponding UI/UX. We mostly code in Solidity, Node/JS, and Go.
- Write code that deals with high-value financial transactions.
- Be directly responsible for the creation and maintenance of modules and core infrastructure of the distributed Centrifuge operating system.
- Drive your projects from inception to completion by owning your own deliverable and collaborating with your teammates.
- Review code of others, maintain shared libraries, contribute to our shared infrastructure and toolbox.
- Be a strong individual contributor in our team-oriented environment. We care about our team and people and value collaboration.
Requirements
- You like solving problems and working with smart, nice people.
- A strong and proven computer science or computer engineering background.
- Track record of high quality, well-crafted code that has been used in production environments.
- Communicate in English in our fast-paced and results-oriented environment.
- Comfortable cooperating with the team in your office as well as remote team members.
- Experience in API development and integration.
A plus:
- You are familiar with cryptographic algorithms, decentralized systems, distributed consensus systems and security and trust reduction.
- You wrote Ethereum smart contracts in Solidity.
- Experience writing code with web3.js.
- Experience with contributing to and managing open source projects.
About Centrifuge
Centrifuge is the decentralized operating system to power global trade and commerce. We are building the systems and tools on public blockchain infrastructure to enable open, fair, and transparent business within the Financial Supply Chain.
Over the last 20 years, we built companies and software to address major issues in the world of Procure to Pay. Global large-scale business networks, invoicing between companies, providing financing for the supply chain - to name a few services we created over the years.
The Centrifuge OS allows businesses to transact on a global, decentralized network while maintaining control of their data. It democratizes access to business processes, makes the supply chain more transparent, and removes the middle-men who extract money from the global economy for their own sake.
We are setting up our Berlin offices right now and you will be one of the first ones to join the team and shape our culture.
You are either already an expert in distributed ledgers/blockchain/Ethereum or wish to become one. You want to join a team of technologists, who really care about writing high quality, open source code. You are self-motivated and don't need many directions to get a job done together with your teammates. We are knowledgeable, curious, and nice people, who have a shared vision to re-shape the world of business software. We would love to hear from you if this feels like a good home for you.
Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable, secure code for distributed applications.
- Build software with Solidity, JS/Node and Go.
- Write code that deals with high-value financial transactions.
- Scalability, security, and ease of deployment for our end-users are key. Your code is operated by the largest corporations on this planet.
- Build the infrastructure that connects our enterprise customers with Ethereum and the Centrifuge peer to peer network.
- Be directly responsible for the creation and maintenance of core Centrifuge modules.
- Drive your projects from inception to completion by owning your own deliverable and collaborating with your teammates.
- Review code of others, maintain shared libraries, contribute to our shared infrastructure and toolbox.
- Be a strong individual contributor in our team-oriented environment. We care about our team and people and value collaboration.
Requirements
- You like solving problems and working with smart, nice people.
- A strong and proven computer science or computer engineering background.
- Track record of high quality, well-crafted code that has been used in production environments.
- Communicate in English in our fast-paced and results-oriented environment.
- Comfortable cooperating with the team in your office as well as remote team members.
- Experience in API development and integration.
A plus:
- You are familiar with cryptographic algorithms, decentralized systems, distributed consensus systems and security and trust reduction.
- You wrote applications before that deal with invoices, purchase orders, payments, or other transactions of the financial supply chain.
- You know your way around writing code for large-scale peer to peer applications.
- Experience with contributing to and managing open source projects.
- Experience shipping and maintaining code that is used in enterprise environments.
About Centrifuge
Centrifuge is the decentralized operating system to power global trade and commerce. We are building the systems and tools on public blockchain infrastructure to enable open, fair, and transparent business within the Financial Supply Chain.
Over the last 20 years, we built companies and software to address major issues in the world of Procure to Pay. Global large-scale business networks, invoicing between companies, providing financing for the supply chain - to name a few services we created over the years.
The Centrifuge OS allows businesses to transact on a global, decentralized network while maintaining control of their data. It democratizes access to business processes, makes the supply chain more transparent, and removes the middle-men who extract money from the global economy for their own sake. We are setting up our Berlin offices right now and you will be one of the first ones to join the team and shape our culture.