As a Software Engineer, you will develop a high-impact service, guide technical good practices, and play an active role in the Development Community of practice. You will shape and execute architectural and technical patterns used in the company to solve the problems for operational teams, improve UX, and cause a WOW effect in the eyes of our Members. With that in mind, you will have an immense impact on how the future of finance looks like.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and deploying backend services focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, low latency, and security.
- Take full end-to-end responsibility for the services your team owns, from development to production, quality, operations, and data.
- Working closely in cross-functional teams where everyone is responsible for the outcome.
- Build a great place to work for talented and motivated people.
- Develop innovative solutions with Bitcoin at its core.
Skills needed
- Significant software engineering experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (we use Python)
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills, comfortable preparing high-quality documentation and designs to aid understanding and knowledge sharing.
- Understanding the microservices architecture, container-based 12-factor apps, and cloud-native patterns around fault tolerance.
- Experience building services that can be deployed on demand, quickly, and with quality.
- Track record of delivering highly scalable asynchronous software.
- Experience in using Event Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design.
- Excellent understanding of CI/CD patterns and good practice.
- Experience building contract-first services and adopting patterns and frameworks to enable appropriate automated testing at the unit, contract, service, and end-to-end levels.
- Understand the role of high-quality observability in building highly scalable and performant software
Other requirements
- AWS for all of our Infrastructure
- Docker
- Python (Django, Flask)
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- Node.js
- Java
- BigQuery
- A dedicated workspace
- A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area
- Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.
