Backend Engineer, Institutional
What is BlockFi?
BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. We build bridges between traditional finance and digital markets that enable growth for all participants.
We’re a team of builders and strivers, proud to champion financial inclusivity and offer economic opportunities around the globe. We provide the same inclusivity to our team members. BlockFi is a place where diversity is celebrated, individuality is recognized, and every single team member is valued. We are changing the status quo to be the first financial company that people love, and we rely on our people to make it happen!
BlockFi is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our growing Institutions team!
About Your Team
We are a fast-paced, industry-defining financial services team, building out a highly available institutional lending/trading platform. You’ll be joining a cross functional team where you will help build out core backend features of our platform for our clients which include traditional financial institutions and a variety of crypto-native institutions.
Your Mission
As a Backend Engineer in Institutions, you will be responsible for developing core backend features for our institutional lending and trading platform. You will collaborate with other engineers to ensure our platform is highly available and offers a best-in-class experience to our clients. As a part of our team you will:
- Develop APIs to provide direct functionality to our clients and to feed our frontend application
- Help build out our trading platform to offer industry leading pricing and an overall great client experience
- Bring design ideas to our team, giving you the opportunity and freedom to help make key decisions for our platform
- Build scalable solutions that are reliable and easily maintained
- Work closely with our electronic trading team to ensure fast executions for our trading clients
- Collaborate with product managers to scope out work and understand client needs and requirements
Your Expertise
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 1+ years of experience with Python application development, specifically API development
- Familiarity with a Python Web Framework such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask
- Familiarity with messaging services such as Redis Streams, Kafka, and RabbitMQ
- Working knowledge of Relational Databases and experience with Python ORMs such as SQLAlchemy
- Familiarity with Python unit testing
- Interest or experience in C++/Rust is a plus
- Experience with AWS Services such as RDS, Elasticache, ECS is a plus
- Excellent communication skills to be able to thoughtfully convey new ideas and decisions
- Passion for building scalable solutions and learning new technologies
Your Perks:
We benefit from the great work our employees do each day. That is why we are committed to providing a variety of awesome benefits to help them live their best lives.
- Competitive salary because we value your experience and expertise
- Unlimited vacation / sick days because everyone deserves time for R&R
- Employer contribution towards health coverage (including vision & dental) because your physical health and well-being is important to us
- Various fringe benefits such as 401k, Parental Leave, FSA/HSA, and Employee Assistance Programs because health coverage is more than just choosing your yearly plan
- Flexible work environment because we are a geographically dispersed team and we believe in balance
- Pet insurance because all of your beloved family members should have coverage too
- Weekly lunch stipend because there is such a thing as a free lunch!
- A close-knit team of enthusiastic, collegial and driven people to work alongside in a highly meritocratic environment because teamwork makes the dreamwork
Why BlockFi?
BlockFi has experienced incredible growth since our launch in August 2017. Our client base has grown to more than 225,000 (and counting), and the company now boasts more than $15 billion in assets on our platform. We recently completed a Series D funding round placing the company's valuation at $3 billion, and our team now has more than 500 people worldwide. We have established ourselves as a crypto market leader, and as we expand our product suite and geographic footprint, we expect our addressable market to grow exponentially.
BlockFi's leadership team has decades of experience in the traditional financial services and banking world, and we take a conservative approach to regulation that will position us well for sustainable long-term growth and expansion.
Our team is comprised of highly motivated professionals from diverse backgrounds. We are aiming to become the leading lender in crypto and are poised to redefine the global financial ecosystem for the better. In addition:
- BlockFi is one of the first companies to ever offer crypto-backed loans and the only company whose founding team has an institutional understanding of the debt capital markets and regulatory landscape in the U.S.
- $100 MM of Series A, B, and C funding led by Valar Ventures with participation from Susquehanna, Winklevoss Capital, Fidelity, Galaxy Digital, Akuna Capital, and Morgan Creek
- $350 MM of Series D funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, partners of DST Global, Pomp Investments and Tiger Global
- We are moving quickly and have already deployed substantial capital into the space, proving our ability to execute and capture customer demand
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Contact Info
- Company Website: https://www.blockfi.com
