Platform Engineer, Finance and Risk Data 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 Platform Engineer, Finance and Risk Data, 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:

As a senior software engineer, you should lead by example – driving the technical discussions, influencing the approach, and making a positive impact on the team’s development by advocating the best engineering practices.

What you will do;

• Build stateful financial data-focused distributed services, this is the core of our operation for both retail and institutional trade.

• Become a key member of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users.

• Advocate best practices, code quality, test coverage, and drive technical discussions.

• Gain exposure to an array of technologies and frameworks such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Akka, and Kotlin. Knowledge of similar technologies and frameworks advantage (like Axon, Vert. x, Elixir, Erlang)

• Take ownership of the financial data generated by retail and institutional trading. You will identify, collect, process (accounting, reconciliation, risk), and report them.

• Ensure security, consistency, accuracy, and reliability of financial data.

• Work within interdisciplinary teams within management, business, and engineering to continually deliver the highest quality software to our users, management, and partners.

• Work with highly scalable reactive services, leveraging messaging and event streams.

• We build our services based on functional patterns, therefore understanding and enthusiasm for Functional Programming are essential.

What you will need;

• 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 take a pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems.

• You have experience building and shipping highly available, fault-tolerant 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.

• Deep understanding of patterns using Event Sourcing, CQRS, and messaging patterns.

• Experience with similar technologies and frameworks like Axon, and Vert.x, Elixir, Erlang is a plus. 

• Preferably experience in at least one JVM-based language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.

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.