Back-End Engineer, Onboarding Full Time

“Previously Startups of London has featured Blockchain in our article The Complete List of Unicorn Startups in the UK 2022.

You can also click on the company name above or go to their company page from here and learn more about their culture, business and management.

As for the role; Blockchain is looking for a Back-End Engineer, Onboarding, to join their company. Learn more about the role, requirements as well as benefits in the below description. Click on the Apply Now button to complete job application.”

– Startup of London Team

The Role:

This role will be responsible for the back-end development of our user onboarding flows, KYC and compliance initiatives, and payments systems. 

Our engineering teams are involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, planning, execution, and shipping. We are looking for software engineers who care about software excellence, are advocates of best practices and love learning new skills.

What will you do;

• Build distributed, scalable, and highly performant, (soft real-time) software to handle our rapidly growing user base using the most appropriate languages and tools
• Be a part of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users
• Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency ecosystem building out a new set of financial services, systems, and architecture
• Work extensively with open-source technologies (Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL)
• Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data
• Work within interdisciplinary teams to continually deliver the highest quality products to our users
• Optimize existing systems for scalability, extensibility, and performance while building out reusable, modular code for use across Blockchain’s products

What you will need;

• At least 5 years of back-end experience with at least one JVM-based language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala or C++, Python, Golang
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed system architectures
• The foremost quality for this position or any position at Blockchain.com is integrity
• You possess an innate curiosity, are a strong advocate for the best engineering practices, and thrive on learning new technologies
• You have experience building and shipping highly available, fault tolerant, low latency, scalable architectures (distributed systems)
• You pride yourself on consistently high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation, and effective monitoring
• Understanding of algorithms, data structures, databases, and large-scale systems
• An appreciation of the entire stack (including but not limited to front-end service-oriented architecture, message brokers, databases, network layers, etc.) and how they impact the performance of your application

Compensation & Perks

• Competitive full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an exciting, emerging industry
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• Crypto bonuses
• Performance-based bonuses paid in cash
• Apple equipment provided by the company
• Awesome office locations and remote working options