Job Description

FalconX is hiring a Software Engineer focused on Blockchain to help introduce a new, in-demand product line for the company that integrates seamlessly with our proprietary, best-in-class Prime Brokerage platform. You will be instrumental in the implementation of critical blockchain infrastructure supporting all major chains and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural design and implementation of the Web3 stack, across all major chains and protocols
• Scale and operate robust services to enable customers to interact with various Blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others
• Drive innovation by safely adopting and testing new technologies and products in the blockchain space
• Strive for generalization across blockchains instead of specialization
• Integrate Blockchain data and primitives into the rest of the Platform stack through repeatable and generalizable interfaces
• Take ownership of technical aspects and ensure technology is designed and built around our customers’ needs
• Collaborate closely with Engineering and Product leadership to plan, estimate, prioritize, and productize new products and features
• Build and deliver against an aggressive product roadmap supporting strategic business initiatives
• Rapidly iterate to add support for emerging blockchain features and functionality while ensuring high availability and scalability
• Provide ongoing maintenance of the technology stack as it matures, ensuring production-quality reliability, impeccable performance, and ease of use
• Ability to understand, triage, and address customer-facing and internal-facing technical issues quickly and effectively
• Provide subject matter expertise on the Blockchain ecosystem and our own in-house blockchain integrations

Requirements

• Proven technical leader in Blockchain technologies with significant experience working with various Blockchain protocols and structures
• Experience shipping and maintaining multiple projects with a large user base, supporting each through multiple years of iteration and growth
• Expertise writing production code in Java, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, or equivalent
• Strong understanding different consensus protocols
• Strong working knowledge of modern software development methodologies and software design patterns
• Experience building robust backend services and leveraging orchestration systems such as Kubernetes to deploy them at scale
• A self-starter eager to explore, iterate, and contribute to decision-making
• Experience working with existing Blockchain-as-a-service stacks is a plus
• Familiarity with cryptographic signing algorithms, asymmetric cryptography, and key management is a plus

Benefits

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