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Senior Golang Developer
Wingocard
Remote (Canada / United States)
C$95,000 to C$110,000 a year
November 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

About Wingocard

Wingocard is a FinTech startup looking to disrupt the banking industry. Our product is aiming to help parents and teens enter the new era of banking by helping parents teach their children the concepts of responsible banking while also bringing financial freedom to young teenagers by not having to depend on their parents for their credit cards.

Wingocard is in it’s early stage and is looking for it’s first core members to join the team. This team will be responsible for building the foundational platform that will be used to launch the Wingocard product and onboard it’s first customers!

About the Role

As a Senior Back End Developer at Wingocard, you will be helping the engineering team in architecting and implementing the foundational pieces of the Wingocard FinTech API. These APIs will need to be scalable, resilient and ensure high availability. They will be responsible for interfacing with external FinTech products whilst also exposing an API that will be consumed by the Wingocard application. Our systems need to be agnostic and robust to ensure they will be a strong foundation to build on over time as we build up the Wingocard product and platform.

Place of Work

The role is for people living in the USA or Canada, for exceptional candidates we might consider non-US/non-Canada residents

If you:

  • Are passionate about technology
  • Have a history of building and architecting distributed systems
  • Have experience building systems that are both scalable and highly resilient
  • Are pragmatic
  • Aren’t scared of a Unix shell
  • Don’t shy away from things like ERDs and DFDs
  • Appreciate good documentation
  • Are able to debug an application on any part of the stack (browser, transport, backend, database, etc.)

Then you will feel right at home!

Qualifications

Must-have Skills & Experience:

  • 3+ years of industry software engineering and architecture experience
  • 2+ years of hands on experience working with Golang at scale in an production environment
  • Experience working with a RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, etc)
  • Experience working in a SaaS environment
  • Passion for operational excellence and drive towards creating performant, scalable and reliable applications
  • Experience in distributed architecture and best practices
  • A team player
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Experience with Docker

Nice-to-have Skills & Experience:

  • PostgreSQL experience
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform
  • GCP Pub/Sub experience
  • Experience with Google Cloud Run
  • Startup experience
  • Experience in the FinTech domain

What it means to work at Wingocard

Wingocard is a fully remote company that is headquartered out of MontrĂŠal QC, Canada. We are passionate about company culture and strive to make a positive impact on the people around us. Our main company values are:

  • Honesty and Transparency
  • Co-Ownership
  • Empathy
  • Be a Bar-Raiser

Benefits

  • Apple MacBook Pro
  • Choice of high resolution monitor(s)
  • Web Cam
  • Choice of Bluetooth Headset
  • Group Benefits
  • Unlimited Vacation Policy

Apply to join Wingocard and help us build the best banking application for parents and teens the world has ever seen!

Wingocard is trusted with highly sensitive information. Upon joining the team, you may be asked to undergo security screening including a criminal record check.

Wingocard provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Wingocard will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.


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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 you’ll 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 you’re 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

  1. Culture fit with People Operations
  2. 30 minute intro call with CTO
  3. 45-60 minute technical call with CTO
  4. Take home coding challenge
  5. Review of your coding challenge with the CTO and our current Pipeline Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer
New Relic
Portland, OR, United States / Remote United States
$145,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Your Opportunity

You will be at the heart of New Relic’s 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.
  • You’re engaged with a high degree of autonomy while proactively keeping stakeholders informed.
  • You care about the “Second Job”: Our “first job” is the job we were hired for (all of the above). Our “second job” 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.)—all 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 what’s happening in today’s complex software environments. So they can find and fix problems faster, and deliver delightful experiences for their customers. That's why the world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their software. It’s the simplest, most powerful cloud-based observability platform, built to create more perfect software. All from one place.

Founded in 2008, we’re a global company passionate about building an inclusive culture where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging, where every ‘Relic’ can bring their whole self to work and feel supported and empowered to thrive. We’re 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.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Document/FCO%20Poster%20Set%20All%20Languages%2010%2001%2018.pdf

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.

Interested in the details of our privacy policy? Read more here: https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/applicant-privacy-policy


Interview Process

Please respond with a Cover letter indicating what interests you about this role and our company and how your background best be suited for this role.

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Remote Protocol Software Engineer
Audius
Remote (United States)
$100,000 to $120,000 a year
July 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Who are we?

Audius is a decentralized, community-owned, and artist-controlled music-sharing protocol. Audius provides a blockchain-based alternative to SoundCloud to help artists monetize their work and distribute it directly to fans. Audius launched it's public beta at the end of September and within the first week over 30,000 users listened to 13,000 tracks from artists that signed up to use Audius including Deadmau5, 3LAU, Brownies and Lemonade, Zeds Dead, with exclusive content from Rezz, Lido and others.

Who we are looking for?

We are looking for a backend engineer to help us design, build, and architect the Audius protocol. You are a collaborative, team player that enjoys working with a small team to solve big problems that need innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, architect and build the Audius protocol
  • Develop a set of services that run on the decentralized Audius ecosystem
  • Help finish the product for public launch later in the coming months

Skills and Experience

  • Knowledgable about node.js, python, postgres, redis, docker, kubernetes
  • An understanding of distributed systems
  • Experience with system design and architecture
  • Great interpersonal and communication skills within a small team

Bonus Points

  • Experience working with a start-up
  • Previous experience with Blockchain
  • Interest in music

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Blockchain Network Engineer
Bison Trails Co.
New York City, United States
$120,000 to $165,000 a year
May 2020
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

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 will…

  • 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


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Senior Software Engineer
Less Bits
Tucson, Bellingham, United States / Remote
$100,000 to $140,000 a year
July 2019
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be working with a small team of experienced developers architecting and building new products.

Learn more about us here: https://lessbits.com/about

We've made a work environment we love. We use mostly Python and Go. We're growing and have multiple products actively in development: ServerPilot (server management for hosting), HeatShield (server and website security), HostLaunch (hosting automation), and DataShuttle (migration and deployment).

The founder was a security researcher and Computer Science PhD student at UC Berkeley until he left to start this company in 2012. The lead engineer (who will be your manager) was the first sysadmin at Amazon.

Required: • 10+ years software development experience. • Professional experience with Python. • Linux expertise. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. • U.S. citizen.

This is a remote position but we do believe it's good to work around other people and to sometimes meet in person with the rest of the team. We're happy to pay for coworking space near where you live if you like to be able to work from somewhere other than home. We have quarterly in-person team/developer meetings, so some travel is required.


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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 shouldn’t 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. It’s 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.


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Software Engineer
App Academy
San Francisco, United States
$120,000 to $130,000 a year
November 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

App Academy is building world-class training programs that help students from all backgrounds transition into careers in tech. Our core offering is a 12-week immersive coding and job search program that trains full-stack web developers. In 2017, we were named one of the top coding bootcamps in the world. We have been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Bloomberg as a driving force behind the changing face of tech education in America. Our unique model — we defer tuition until our students graduate and secure jobs afterwards — aligns us with the success of our students. Join us on our mission to empower people to transform their lives.

About the Role

At App Academy we are constantly innovating on a handful of products and courses. Our team maintains a range of products from internal tools to consumer-facing online platforms and we enable rapid development across these platforms through better automation and more cutting edge technologies. As a new member of our small but mighty team you will build on top of and improve our serverless platform, the business logic that powers our products, and bring new knowledge and expertise to the team.

Our Stack - Serverless (on AWS) - Node.js and Golang (polyglottic) - MongoDB - React/Redux - Ruby on Rails (legacy) - Postgres (legacy)

Responsibilities - You will work on and maintain serverless and cloud Infrastructure (AWS) and our online products/platforms. - You will help out with migration out of legacy platforms (mostly Ruby on Rails). - We are a small company and looking for people who can thrive in a collaborative environment that goes beyond a single team, as a member of our team you will hold meetings and discussions around product features with stakeholders. - Teach and Learn. We are unique as a team in this area. You will spend part of your time spreading knowledge or exploring new technologies both internally and externally (oss, articles, presentations). After all, we are in the business of education and we are looking for people who share our commitment to this mission.

Experience & Qualifications - Expertise in either Node.js/Golang or a language/framework you can convince us to use - Experience with React/Redux, and components in general - Experience with AWS (we use a wide-range, most notably Lambda, ECS) - A working understanding of Docker and Continuous Integration tools - Deep experience with Mongo or any NoSQL Database - Experience with TDD and an avid user of the process

Nice to Have's - Open-source contributions as this helps us assess you better - Expertise with Kubernetes and Docker-compose is a plus - Experience with ServerlessExperience with Ruby, Rails - Experience working with remote teams is a big plus, we have a TA team based on NY - A passion for the education industry is a big plus!

Our Values - Take responsibility for student success. Everyone works together to enable student success. - Follow the numbers. Decisions should be backed by data. - Embrace a growth mindset. View challenges and failures as opportunities to improve. - Start with why. See the big picture and question the status quo. If there’s a better way of doing things we should investigate it.
- Create an inclusive environment. We work together to promote empathy and respect amongst all students and staff.

Benefits - Competitive salary - Unlimited paid time off - Employer-sponsored health insurance plans with 100% support for premiums - Delicious catered lunch twice a week - Great location in San Francisco with easy access to transportation options - Generous paid family leave program - The opportunity to work with driven and talented colleagues committed to lifelong learning

App Academy is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We believe strongly that technology companies benefit from diversity and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

Learn more about our students, staff, and community at our blog here: https://blog.appacademy.io/

WE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS OVER ANGELLIST. PLEASE APPLY HERE: https://bit.ly/2MQcQ0x


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Senior Software Engineer
Bitfusion.io
Austin, United States / Remote
$100,000 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

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer.


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Senior Systems Engineer
Swish
Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Remote
$80,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
4 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 start­up 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 everyone’s 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.

Join the future of work today.


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