Senior Software Engineer - Backend at ether.fi
Company: ether.fi
Location: New York
Type: FULL_TIME
Job Description
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About us:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Ether.fi">Ether.fi</a> is one of the largest crypto companies in the world. We have over $10B in assets under management and a team of 30 almost all technical staff. We’ve been profitable day one and are focusing on building real consumer applications.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The future we envisage is true on-chain banking. Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards. You can view public analytics on Dune for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dune.com/ether_fi/etherfi-cash">Cash</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dune.com/ether_fi/etherfi">Stake</a>.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Position overview:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re looking for a senior full backend software engineer to own core backend architecture, card transaction processing and high availability. You will belong to a key engineering team focusing on delivering distributed, scalable and robust backend systems. Everything from card transaction processing, low latency apis, microservice architectures and on-chain data indexing. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughout and latency</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Tackle the challenges in user frictions for their card transactions being declined</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive improvements in our Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What we are looking for:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of professional coding experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Plus if you are experienced in credit card transaction processor such as Paymentology, Episode 6, etc.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Perks and benefits:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style
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