Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Circle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for extending Circle's in-house blockchain systems infrastructure, building scalable microservices, and collaborating with teams to design and implement features that improve payment experiences.
Responsibilities
- Extend Circle's in-house blockchain systems infrastructure to support the tokenization of the world
- Analyze requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems and modify systems
- Build and own scalable microservices that are responsible for reliable and secure APIs that transfer value and assets across all blockchain protocols as well as traditional banking protocols
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to design, test, and shape Circle features, including developing and documenting system design procedures, testing procedures, and quality standards
- Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning
- Build publicly accessible APIs that make it simple for developers to integrate with complex payment systems
- Integrate Platform Services with leading banks and financial technologies
- Consult with management to ensure agreement on system principles
- Write the infrastructure to deliver great payment experiences, including data sources (SQL or NoSQL), messaging systems and APIs
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- 7 years minimum professional software development experience in object oriented languages like Go or Java
- Computer Science degree or a closely related field (or foreign equivalent)
- Technical leadership of teams >4 on architecture and system design
- Expert in one of the domains of API design, payments processing, or blockchains
- Deep understanding/experience with: Architecture, design, and deployment of production-quality, scalable software
- Web3, blockchain, smart Contract business logic
- RESTful API design and development principles
- Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc)
- Container orchestration systems like Kubernetes or EKS, ECS
- SQL databases and designing schemas
- Deep focus on coding standards and code quality -- a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery
- Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively
- Self-starter with a curious mindset, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision
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