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Senior Software Engineer PriceSpider Remote (California) / Irvine, CA, United States $125,000 to $150,000 a year
February 2021
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
PriceSpider is revolutionizing retail data technology by capturing actionable insights that improve the customer experience. Combining decades of data on consumer shopping behaviors with its proprietary data collection platform, PriceSpider arms brands with intelligence from thousands of ecommerce sites and marketplaces to help them drive sales conversions and protect brand integrity at every possible digital touch point. PriceSpider helps the worldâs biggest brands enrich the consumer journey and build long-lasting relationships with their shoppers, resulting in more revenue and higher profit margins.
We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate engineers to join our team. If you would enjoy working to bring real world value to many of the worldâs largest companies, we would love to hear from you. Our platform runs thousands of jobs and processes millions of requests each day as we strive to collect the most accurate information about the way our customers products are used and consumed around the globe.
Essential Function & Responsibilities:
Active involvement in daily stand up meetings
Timely completion of tasks and projects
Ability to collaborate with others to fulfill business requirements
Contribute to the discovery of new software, languages, and technology
Contribute to design decisions
Independently develop solutions that fit in the overall business processes developed
Research solutions and provide recommendations on software and development methodologies
Develops tests and processes to ensure the quality of delivery
Integrate pieces of software built by other members or teams into larger projects
Abstract code redundancy and dynamic data elements out of project
Mentor other software engineers
Writing of wiki, help, and stakeholder documentationÂ
Other duties that may be assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
Deep understanding of internet-based products and systems
Experience coding with a variety of languages and paradigms
Programming knowledge of Node.js, and GO preferred
Experience with SQL and relational databases
Understanding of various non-relational data stores
Experience writing appropriate unit tests
Adept in working in other peopleâs code, refactoring when necessary
Adept in picking up new software, technology, and programming languages
Intimate knowledge of software development principles and life cycles
Minimum 6 years working experience as a software engineer or programmer
Location:
We are hiring for this position in Irvine, CA or remote in Southern CA.
PriceSpider is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
Senior Software Engineer Stellar San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States / Canada) $160,000 to $190,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Open to considering remote candidates in the US & Canada
Interested in helping us change the world of payments forever? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a talented, experienced, and hands-on engineer to assist partners with integrating into the Stellar network. In this role youâll be designing, building, and implementing innovative blockchain solutions for our partners. You will lead the way in developing projects, from scoping & system design to development & best practice deployments. SDFâs partners span globally and are some of the most innovative software and financial companies.
What you'll do:
Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
Build and maintain web services to support the foundationâs mission (creating equitable access to the global financial system).
Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling our API services.
Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.
Who you are:
5+ years real-world experience developing or implementing software within enterprise networks
Solid understanding of web technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, JSON, REST, etc
Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript, Go, C++, Python, or similar
Ability to lead technical discussions and explain technical details to non-technical people
Independent and results driven. Skilled at working in an environment with dynamic objectives (maybe you even thrive on chaos)
Youâre a strong problem solver and fast learner
Youâre passionate about top quality code and using the latest best practices
You build software with your users and their needs top of mind
You're a true partner advocate.
About Stellar
Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the worldâs financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts.
About the Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the worldâs financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps maintain Stellarâs codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the worldâs economic potential through blockchain technology.
We look forward to hearing from you!
SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
Senior Software Engineer Go Linden Lab Remote (United States) $120,000 to $150,000 a year
January 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Our mission is to build new economies by enabling our partners to compensate their content creators for the digital goods and services they produce. Here on the Ecom engineering team, we accomplish this by building a growing set of financial capabilities on top of our regulatory licenses. Some of these capabilities include processing payments and payouts, verifying user identities, detecting fraud and enforcing sanctions. Additionally, these systems have an expanding set of tools around them to be used by our partners and customers.
Basically, we write code that lets users sell digital hats in video games and get paid real money.
This position is for a Senior Software Engineer - Go on the Ecom team. The primary responsibility is to design and build the APIs that facilitate our capabilities. This is a fast-paced team and we are responsible for the full life cycle of our code. We break large systems down into component parts to be concurrently worked on, which requires that we be in lock step with each other. This means we highly value dependability and communication. We are iterative in nature, both as it applies to the code as well as our own processes. We build cool stuff, we weigh risk/reward, and when we make mistakes, we respond quickly and together and without blame. This is a team in the truest sense.
You will:
Take features through their entire lifecycle - design, implementation, test, documentation, deployment, production monitoring, outage response, and usage analysis
Design the API spec and implement it, to enable core business capabilities around payments, payouts, identity verification, fraud detection, sanction enforcement, and tooling
Communicate not just with the team, but also directly with our partners and vendors
Participate in our culture of continuous improvement to make both the tech and the team even better
Learn about and contribute to financial technology
You need:
Experience with Golang
Experience with SQL
Experience with UNIX/Linux
Broad exposure to common web technologies
Proficiency in scripting languages
The ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6 years of experience in web software engineering
Bachelorâs degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
What we use and teach:
Golang, MySQL, Python, Docker
Docker, Drone, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Terraform
Backend Systems Engineer CommentSold Remote (United States) $125,000 to $155,000 a year
November 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Backend Systems Engineer
At CommentSold we are building multiple complex systems to support our core e-commerce and mobile technology stacks, we have systems doing video transcoding, push and SMS messaging, mobile build pipelines and a few other interesting problems.
We're looking for an experienced backend systems engineer with a strong general software engineering skillset to help build and grow our new systems development. In this role youâll be driving forward our new backend systems, helping designing and maintaining our existing systems.
Right now the majority of our backend systems which live outside our main web stack are written in Go and/or built on AWS technologies like ECS and beanstalkd. If you have experience with and interest in helping solve some interesting problems where scaling is a real factor this might be the right role for you.
NOTE: At this time, we are only considering candidates located in the USA.
In this role, you will
Work on a wide range of problems within our core application
Focus on solving problems from both the customer facing and backend perspectives
Gain a deep understanding of our product and become involved in driving out product implementation
Join a rapidly growing technical team with the opportunity to take on both product and technical problems
Our pipeline uses libraries and tooling along with scripts/tools written in languages including python, bash and Go (Golang).
If youâre right for this role, you
Have a strong understanding of core computer science principles
2-3+ years backend systems development experience utilizing Go
2-3+ years experience with AWS technologies like ECS and beanstalkd
Are organized and have strong time management skills
Love solving problems and finding solutions
Are self-motivated and self-directing
Are comfortable in a fast paced, pragmatic work environment
Have worked on a remote team
Perks & Benefits
We are a remote focused team so the majority of your time will be remote. We also provide remote specific benefits: * Coworking space reimbursement budget * Home internet reimbursement budget
Base salary plus annual bonus
Interview Process
Culture fit with People Operations
30 minute intro call with CTO
45-60 minute technical call with CTO
Take home coding challenge
Review of your coding challenge with the CTO and our current Pipeline Engineer
Senior Software Engineer New Relic Portland, OR, United States / Remote United States $145,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Your Opportunity
You will be at the heart of New Relicâs best-in-class APM solution, with a focus on our open source Go projects. Engaging the community to shape direction and drive innovation, your lightweight and dependable data collection software [https://github.com/newrelic/go-agent] will directly impact our mission.
Opportunity to work from a remote office may be available depending on applicant location.
What You'll Do
Write efficient Go. Customers run our code in their production systems, which means you write, build and run a comprehensive test suite to make sure each release is extensively tested and dependable.
You thrive on managing multiple in-flight workstreams while influencing outcomes in our open-source communities. You collaborate with internal and external teams to provide technical leadership for new feature development, through creation and review of multi-language feature specifications, architecture and documentation..
Curate a home for contributors on our open-source projects. You lead through collaboration and further an ecosystem for experimental thinking, discussion and constructive debate.
Provide recommendations on product direction and architecture, informed by your understanding of emerging projects and standards.
Help iterate on our processes, practices, and culture as we grow through active collaboration with those around you. We value the power of pairing to share information, ensure quality, and grow our expertise.
Support our agents. You participate in rotations assisting our dedicated support team to help customers solve issues and get the most of the agent
Your Qualifications
Must-have:
Go expertise: You write portable, efficient and readable Go code.
Comfortable with working in ambiguity, but also seek to minimize the unknown by utilizing standard methodologies, meta-work skills (project management, communication, work estimation) and well-reasoned opinions.
A passion for sharing your knowledge for the benefit of those around you, demonstrating a true growth mentality that encourages teammates to seek you out as a mentor. You mentor and pair with team members to facilitate mutual growth.
You excel in tailoring written and verbal communication to context effectively, and succinctly convey complex technical concepts to a range of audiences. This team writes proposals, specs, and retrospectives. You give talks and demo our work.
Youâre engaged with a high degree of autonomy while proactively keeping stakeholders informed.
You care about the âSecond Jobâ: Our âfirst jobâ is the job we were hired for (all of the above). Our âsecond jobâ is helping those around us to succeed at their jobs. Balancing first and second jobs makes us smarter, more effective, and happier.
Nice-to-have:
PHP and C development experience.
Experience contributing to OpenSource Projects
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Our Office
Our office is in the center of downtown Portland, situated in a thriving tech community in the Pacific Northwest. We enjoy easy commute access and a plethora of good eats and great coffee. We provide competitive compensation including equity and big-company benefits (medical, dental, etc.)âall while maintaining the energy, agility and fun of a start-up.
About Us
New Relic (NYSE: NEWR) is a cloud-based platform that gives developers, engineers, operations, and management a clear view of whatâs happening in todayâs complex software environments. So they can find and fix problems faster, and deliver delightful experiences for their customers. That's why the worldâs best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their software. Itâs the simplest, most powerful cloud-based observability platform, built to create more perfect software. All from one place.
Founded in 2008, weâre a global company passionate about building an inclusive culture where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging, where every âRelicâ can bring their whole self to work and feel supported and empowered to thrive. Weâre consistently recognized as a distinguished employer and are committed to building world-class products and an award-winning culture. For more information, visit newrelic.com.
Our Hiring Process
New Relic takes seriously our stewardship of the data of our thousands of customers worldwide. In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.
New Relic is an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek a diverse applicant pool and hire without regard to race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities (or disability), age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Bison Trails is the leading blockchain infrastructure provider, and we are looking for an exceptional Blockchain Network Engineer to join our highly-skilled and passionate team in New York City. The ideal candidate is an experienced, motivated, self-starting engineer with a love for building containerized applications in a cloud native development environment.
We believe in the power of blockchain technology and building a decentralized future that enables greater participation in global financial networks. Our mission is to provide superior infrastructure on multiple blockchains, strengthen the entire ecosystem, and enable the pioneers of tomorrow.
What does it mean to be a Blockchain Network Engineer at Bison Trails?
You have 3-5 years of infrastructure or full-stack engineering experience under your belt
You are a self-starter with a proven track record of shipping quality product
You are an autonomous worker with the ability to proactively manage the needs of a growing company with minimal oversight
You possess an analytical mindset and feel comfortable using qualitative and quantitative data to inform your decision making
You are proficient in a modern programming language such as Go, Python, or Rust
You are experienced in containerizing modern applications, particularly blockchain networks.
You have familiarity with Go and the Kubernetes ecosystem, but are not necessarily an expert
You take pride in having excellent written and verbal communication skills
You enjoy entrepreneurial environments and want to help build something meaningful
You preferably work in the greater NYC area, but if not, you are US-based with previous remote experience
Day to day, you willâŚ
Work to support new and existing blockchain networks on our platform. This means dockerizing, YAML templating, and otherwise writing code that facilitates different networks running on our Kubernetes based platform every day
Research complex topics around specific blockchain networks including consensus algorithms, economic models, and node/network topology.
Interact and collaborate with other engineers and team members; we have a highly focused and collaborative team. Our team prioritizes creating a shared understanding of our systems/supported networks, and we are dedicated to supporting each other on a daily basis.
Contribute to blockchain network support discussions. We are looking for a strong technical leader that can help drive and own support for multiple networks.
Participate in the overall blockchain network community. Join third party discussions and become a contributor to the development of new and existing networks.
Build services and infrastructure that help to automate the deployment of blockchain network infrastructure
Incorporate monitoring, alerting, and observability to support blockchain networks that allow us to maintain the highest standards of health, reliability and uptime.
Write integration tests and contribute to maintaining a healthy CI/CD pipeline.
We are conveniently located in Tribeca, NYC. We provide competitive industry salaries along with:
- Company-paid health, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- 401(k) plan, FSA & commuter benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Training, mentorship, and coaching from industry leaders and company leadership
- The opportunity to grow alongside a company that is helping create the decentralized future
- Work in tandem with fun, diverse and open-minded colleagues
IoT Solution Engineer ClearBlade Austin, United States $75,000 to $150,000 a year
July 2019
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
ClearBlade provides an industry leading IoT platform. As such it demands knowledge across a wide domain of computer languages, user interfaces and infrastructure. We are looking for an experienced software developer with a passion for quality, performance, and scalability.
This position is for a professional services engineer who is experienced with performing technical implementations and training customers and support in the ClearBlade platform. Candidate must be comfortable working alone and in a small team, but also comfortable with rapid growth of the team and the company. Good communication and cooperation skills are a must. Candidate must also be interested in providing technical support to clients and team.
REQUIREMENTS
⢠3+ years in a professional services environment in the software industry
⢠Ability to create modern web dashboards using standard HTML and Javascript technologies for demonstration
⢠GoLang, C, Javascript, Python.
⢠Hands-on experience with Unix (Linux MacOS), Docker, Git/Github, BitBucket, Jenkins, and web servers.
⢠Ability to autonomously pursue elegant solutions to open-ended problems.
⢠Demonstrate experience with continuous integration and agile software development.
⢠Practical experience with SDLC tools like Git/Github, BitBucket, Jira and Jenkins
⢠Experience with major cloud offerings for compute, storage and networking
⢠Understanding of protocols for enterprise communication (SOAP, JMS, AMQP), web server communication (REST, JSON, MQTT), device communication (BLE, Zigbee) and industrial communication (MODBUS, CANBUS, SNMP)
⢠Strong analytics and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and analyze issues quickly.
Highly Desired
⢠Familiarity and experience with IoT-specific development issues, including challenges associated with programming small sensor devices.
⢠Experience with Google Cloud services and tools
⢠Proven track record of identifying and championing new technologies that enhance the software quality, developer productivity, and end-user experience.
⢠Experience in functional, regression, and performance testing.
⢠Experience with IoT devices like Raspberry Pi as a gateway and a Silicon Labs Thunderboard as a BLE sensor.
To succeed here you need to be obsessive about learning new technologies, excited to solve hard software problems, and curious about how we can enable others to build amazing IoT solutions. A mindset focused on writing software that is well tested, secure by default, and performs at scale that can support millions of connected devices is a necessity. You must be able to collaborate with others well and work effectively on your own projects with little oversight.
This position will be based in Austin, TX. Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to Austin, TX or the surrounding area.
Benefits
⢠Close tight-knit team
⢠Ability to work remote
⢠Unlimited paid vacation
⢠Group health, dental, and life insurance
Why ClearBlade?
ClearBlade is a rapidly growing Internet of Things software company focused on Industrial, Transportation, Buildings Facilities and Communication Service Provider market segments.
We spend a lot of time together in our historical building downtown off 5th and Congress, and that experience shouldnât be painful. We get together after work for events and happy hours when possible. Our team is dedicated, wickedly smart and motivated to dominate the IoT software space. Itâs a great environment for innovation and personal success. If you are up for this kind of adventure, challenge and commitment, we would like to have a conversation with you.
Senior Software Engineer Bitfusion.io Austin, United States / Remote $100,000 to $180,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Bitfusion is an Austin, TX and a Bay Area company building the operating system for managing AI infrastructure across CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs in next generation data centers and clouds.
We are looking for strong cloud infrastructure engineer (developer type) with self-directed work habits and strong willingness to learn. You will be part of a collaborative team with a culture of open communication, innovation and make-it-happen mindset. You will work on bleeding edge technologies and have the opportunity to lean new technologies. Expect excellent application development skills and Kubernetes experience is a must. Experience with building highly available, scalable and generalized infrastructure and solid proficiency with at least one modern general-purpose programming languages like C++, Go, Python, Scala, etc is essential.
You should have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. Top-notch communication skills are essential. Strong problem solving skills and out of the box thinking are a must. Must work well in a fast paced team of talented, motivated, and coworkers. Physically located in Austin, TX is highly preferred, though remote work may be possible depending on qualifications.
Must Haves
* 5+ years of relevant industry work experience
* BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent program
* Hands-on development with highly distributed and micro-service environments in clouds like AWS
* Experience with Docker container related technologies like Kubernetes, Mesos, etc
* Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
* Demonstrated proficiency with at least two modern general-purpose programming languages like C++, Go, Python, Scala, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
* Should be able to pick up any new programming language and demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies quickly
Nice to Haves
* Experience building APIs and client libraries
* Experience with industry or open-source projects in large-data, parallel and distributed systems
* Experience building technologies with caching, RPC, queuing, parallelism, multi-threading, concurrency
* Experience with full stack web development
As part of your job application, send us some bullet points about the most recent projects you worked on with Kubernetes, whats your favorite programming language, what kind of things have you hacked in the past, why would like to be part of this team, etc.
Blockchain Engineer (Protocol Level) Swish Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Remote $120,000 to $180,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Swish is a world-class development studio which teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented protocol level engineers to design and implement core protocol features (like sharding, multi-chain architecture, two-way pegs, zk-Starks, zk-Snarks, and state channels) for new blockchains. Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.
As a blockchain engineer, you will work on protocol level infrastructure for blockchains. We acknowledge that the blockchain space is in its infancy. Prior experience with blockchain development is required but we are flexible as to which paths youâve taken to get it. Â You should have prior experience developing high quality server and blockchain architecture and be excited about doing that at a studio that is transforming the way companies run their businesses.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about being at the forefront of a new technological paradigm and can lead the design and development of scalable applications. A successful candidate will bring deep analytical ability, a security-first mindset, and the ability to deliver results within a fast-moving, agile environment.
We are also looking for:
⢠Strong communication skills
⢠Experience with measuring and improving server response times in different conditions and environments.
⢠Experience with unit and integration testing, continuous integration, and deployment workflows.
You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.
Responsibilities
⢠Write secure, well-documented, well-tested code
⢠Write code to interface with data stores, including databases (relational and non-relational) and a blockchain
⢠Design, implement and document clear and consistent APIs to be consumed by web and mobile clients
⢠Guide product decisions
Requirements
⢠1+ years experience with Golang or C++
⢠4+ years of experience in a backend engineering role
⢠Experience with distributed systems
⢠Familiarity with a modern web development framework such as Python (Django/Flask), Ruby (Rails), or Javascript (React/Flux)
⢠Comfortable operating in dynamic environments
Bonus Points
⢠Background in cryptography, networking, or distributed systems
⢠Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint
⢠Proficiency in React/Flux, Node, Drizzle, Truffle, cryptoeconomics, or protocol-level blockchain development
⢠Contribution to open source software
⢠Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related.
⢠Experience in small startÂup environments helping large enterprises.
⢠Experience with a distributed team
About Swish
Launched in February 2013,Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.
We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyoneâs choice to live and work the way they prefer.
Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.
We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.
Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.
Senior Systems Engineer Swish Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Remote $80,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.
Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.
As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.
You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.
We are also looking for:
Strong communication skills.
Experience with performance and load testing.
You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.
Responsibilities
* Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project
* Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load
* Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues
* Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments
* Guide protocol design decisions
Requirements
* 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++
* 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role
* Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing
* Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems
* Experience with AWS/GCP
* Comfortable operating in dynamic environments
Bonus Points
* Background in networking or distributed systems
* Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint
* Proficiency in protocol-level blockchain development
* Contribution to open source software
* Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related.
* Experience in small startÂup environments helping large enterprises.
* Experience with a distributed team
About Swish
Launched in February 2013, Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.
We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyoneâs choice to live and work the way they prefer.
Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.
We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.
Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.