Member of Technical Staff, Custody

Responsibilities

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Custody systems.
• Write, review, test, and document code according to engineering and team standards.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems and formulate elegant and practical solutions.
• Review other developers' code to ensure consistency, reduce errors, and share context.
• Drive work independently and lead or significantly contribute to medium-to-large projects, including leading end-to-end with little oversight.
• Break down large projects into smaller tasks, accurately estimate time and scope, analyze trade-offs, and recommend priorities.
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture with emphasis on minimizing tech debt.
• Ensure knowledge is shared among the team to avoid single points of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams.
• Monitor company objectives and trends that may affect success.
• Mentor and guide others on the team, help them understand strategic goals.
• Communicate outside team boundaries to solve problems and build positive working relationships.

Requirements

• Real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• Enjoy building resilient services that can handle varying volumes of work without manual intervention.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over "cool tech".
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• Strong computer science fundamentals (concurrency, algorithms, data structures); formal CS degree not required.
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating, learning from, and mentoring others.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with applied cryptography.
• Mindset where "crypto" means cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
• Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun and stay up to date with cryptoasset innovations.
• GraphQL API design and implementation experience.
• gRPC API design and implementation experience.
• Background in the finance industry.