Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Zero Hash is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help architect Zero Hash's Blockchain infrastructure and build new features. We are a high-performing team looking for an equally ambitious and driven teammate.

The right candidate for this position is detail-oriented, deeply technical, and driven with a passion for Blockchain. You are eager to learn new technologies and complex systems. 

If you're looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find this role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support over 50 digital assets
• Architect and develop new features including staking-as-a-service
• Subject matter expert for stakeholders including customers 
• Support the company’s vital business by contributing to the design and development of software in an event-driven microservices environment
• Develop microservices in golang
• Work with platform engineers to set up new services
• Respond to production issues and alerts, participate in on-call rotations
• When necessary, communicate directly with client technical teams

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience, preferably in the Fintech space
• Deep proficiency with Golang
• Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
• familiarity with cryptographic protocols
• Experience building and operating software in an multi-regional cloud infrastructure
• Secure software design and development - must be able to evaluate the security trade-offs when making design decisions
• Must have a testing mindset
• Experience leading a team and able to understand business requirements
• A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and in your element going from 0 to 1
• Excellent problem-solving skills - can troubleshoot complex systems
• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently layout and test clear hypotheses and solve problems without well-defined direction
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

• Previous experience working on a production blockchain system. Ability to research new blockchain technologies.
• Good understanding and relevant experience on smart contracts.
• Involvement in the crypto and blockchain community (contribute to open source projects, conferences)
• Experience with AWS and serverless stack
• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience

Benefits

We believe a happy, motivated, and healthy team is the best way to succeed. We offer the following benefits:

• Chance to earn equity
• Paid Maternity & Paternity leave (after six months)
• WeWork Membership
• WFH Yearly Stipend
• L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)

About Zero Hash 

Zero Hash's full stack financial infrastructure seamlessly connects fiat, crypto and stablecoins, enabling a better way to move and transfer money and value globally.

Zero Hash provides the complete technical infrastructure (delivered through API and SDK) as well as the global regulatory stack to easily and compliantly send, receive, store, and convert fiat, crypto, and stablecoins, in one platform.

Start-ups, enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, including Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Shift4, Franklin Templeton, and MoonPay embed our infrastructure to power a diverse range of use cases: cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, wallets and on and off-ramps.

Backed by Interactive Brokers, Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, and tastytrade.

The Zero Hash Culture

All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.

• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and ​make a difference every day.

• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.

• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.

• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.

• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.

• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.

• Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.

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