Who are we?
FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever- evolving cryptocurrency landscape.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and enhance FalconX’s proprietary credit management systems, infrastructure, data, and processes
- Architect and build scalable, robust, performant credit solutions for institutional clients and internal teams.
- Work with cross-functional teams (product, platform, frontend, data) to build end-to-end solutions driving the credit business.
- Experience with building transactional, performant systems at large scale, and ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Write well tested readable code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
- Work with junior team members to breakdown tasks, help in technical solutioning and unblock them when they are stuck.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
- Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and
best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for
these standards through code review.
Job requirements
- At Least 5 years of experience working in software development with minimum 2 years of working experience in Python or any other object oriented programming language.
- Domain knowledge in institutional financial services, lending and borrowing products.
- Familiarity with modern web technologies like AWS cloud, MySQL database, Redis caching, messaging tools like Kafka/SQS, Kubernetes etc and good understanding of trade-offs with one technology vs another.
- Have a good understanding of object oriented design patterns to make sure the codebase is maintainable and extensible.
- Have a good understanding of operating systems concepts like multi-threading, multi-processing
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensively iterative software development process.
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
Bonus Criteria
- Strong familiarity with credit: this includes, but is not limited to, customer-side credit lending and firm-side borrowing, margin lending, credit risk (loss probability and recoveries), balance sheet usage, and cash flow modeling
- Candidates with a strong computer science background. Bachelor's degree in computer science
- Experience with frontend technologies like react, javascript
- Experience working in an early stage product startups
Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy
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Inclusivity Statement
FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people. Our roles are intended for people from all walks of life. We encourage all those interested in applying to our organization to submit an application regardless if you are missing some of the listed background requirements, skills, or experiences!
As part of our commitment to inclusivity, FalconX would like to acknowledge that the EEOC survey has limited potential responses that you can select. For legal reasons, FalconX must use this language to align with federal requirements, however, we want to ensure that you are able to provide a response to our own voluntary survey questions about your identity that best aligns with your most true self.
FalconX is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on FalconX. Please inform FalconX’s People team at [email protected], if you need assistance with participating in the application process.
What We Do
FalconX is a digital asset trading platform that provides clients fast, secure and reliable execution using data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees.
We’re fortunate to be backed by a wide range of investors including: Accel, Fidelity, B-Capital, Tiger Global, Accomplice, Coinbase, Fenbushi Capital, Flybridge Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others.
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