⚡️ About Merkle Science
Merkle Science provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions for web3 companies, digital asset service providers, financial institutions, law enforcement and government agencies to detect, investigate and prevent illicit use of cryptocurrencies. Our vision is to make cryptocurrencies safe and provide infrastructure for the safe and compliant growth of cryptocurrencies.
Merkle Science is headquartered in New York with offices in Singapore, Bangalore and London. The team has combined experience across Bank of America, Paypal, Luno, Thomson Reuters and Amazon. The company has raised over US$27 MM from SIG, Beco, Republic, DCG, Kenetic, GGV and several others.
💥 What will you do?
-Write clean and optimized code that gives better performance on metrics like cpu time, memory usage, page loading times, crash free sessions
-Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and deliver pixel perfect and responsive designs
-Keep improving the code using frontend code analysis & monitoring tools like LogRocket, Sentry, NewRelic, SonarCloud
-Actively participate in code reviews and work towards increasing code coverage
-Find & use libraries or 3rd party tools that save developer time from re-engineering the problems that are already solved by others in the industry
-Contribute and drive the reusable component library of MerkleScience design framework
-Take the ownership in defining the API contracts
-Collaborate with backend and qa teams on API & Web UI functional test planning & test automation
-Publish the blogs on company social media handles about challenging technical problems solved at Merkle Science
-Contribute to the open source community & participate in technical events representing MerkleScience
📜 What process do we follow? (<2 weeks)
Application: We will keep it simple. You can apply directly through our job portal. All we ask for is a Resume. Additional Portfolio links such as Github, Medium or a Personal website are welcome
Screening: We will screen your profile and get back with a decision asap
Interviews: We will have two rounds of interviews. Round one (30mins) Intro call that will focus on getting to know each other better and identifying if this could work for both of us. Round two (60mins) is a technical round where we will review your prior experience and discuss how you would build systems to solve a problem we will introduce on call. An additional third round-technical may be decided based on the previous rounds
Meet the Team: Culture-Fit is essential for both you and us. So we always go the extra mile, and you will meet two other colleagues on the team who you would be working with. Here, you could discuss questions on stack, culture and some other things you might be interested in if you had a consideration for a new role.
Offer Rollout: If all looks well, we will open a bottle of champagne.
📢 Other information you may want to consider
We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
❤️ Well Being, Compensation and Benefits
We care about your well-being. Along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, learning & development initiatives and hours that are designed to provide work/life balance. We regularly host team-building sessions and encourage discussions around mental health.
We reward talent and believe in acknowledging people for their contributions. We offer industry-leading compensation, along with generous equity. As a rapidly growing business, there are endless opportunities to grow your career with Merkle Science.
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What We Do
Founded in 2018, Merkle Science is the next generation predictive cryptocurrency risk and intelligence platform that helps crypto companies, financial institutions, and government entities detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies. Merkle Science’s proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine enables our tools to go beyond blacklists so that compliance teams may fulfill their local KYC/AML obligations and industry players may stay keep pace with the industry’s increasingly complex illicit activities.
Merkle Science envisions a world powered by crypto and is creating the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe and healthy growth of the cryptocurrency industry as it becomes a key pillar of the $22 trillion financial services ecosystem. We enable businesses to scale and mature so that a full range of individuals, entities, and services may transact with crypto safely.
