Senior Backend Developer - Scala, Fiat Payments - Bitcoin Devs Company

Overview:

The Senior Backend Developer - Scala at Fiat Payments plays a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our backend systems, ensuring seamless functionality and high performance. This position is essential for driving the innovation and evolution of our payment platform, enabling us to provide cutting-edge solutions to our customers in the rapidly evolving financial technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop new products and product features on the platform, as part of a tight knit team of about eight developers, as well document designs.

Own the DevOps lifecycle for a product; building, validating and maintaining high quality products through its lifetime.

Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features.

Author high quality code, and review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns.

Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the code base by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects.

Required Qualifications:

At least 6 years of software engineering experience.

Building micro-services in the cloud (AWS, Azure etc) and building high-available services at scale.

Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language like Java, Rust, C++, Scala. We use mostly Scala and C++ on our backend – it’s great if you’re comfortable in those or if you’re willing to learn.

The ability to work closely across teams (and time-zones) and manage dependencies.

A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality.

The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with or being a power user of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and/or blockchain technology.

Work experience or knowledge of the finance industry, payments, trading and/or exchange systems.