The world of digital assets is accelerating in speed, magnitude, and complexity, opening the door to new ways for leveraging the blockchain. Fireblocks’ platform and network provide the simplest and most secure way for companies to work with digital assets and it trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally-recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, and thousands more.
About the team:
The Platform Services Team at Fireblocks plays a crucial role in shaping the product and helping customers to independently succeed and grow with Fireblocks, by enabling Fireblocks business units to quickly develop new, resilient high-quality fit-to-scale business experiences, and by providing users a best-in-class experience managing their environment in order to succeed in their business goals.
What You'll Do:
- Lead technical projects at scale and be a focal point for the team in backend development.
- Tackle scalability challenges end to end.
- Maintaining and enhancing platform services essential for Fireblocks teams.
- Advocating for, and enforcing standards and best practices.
- Leading and educating through knowledge sharing via documentation, knowledge-base articles, blogs, forums and presentations.
- Addressing complex production issues and developing long-term solutions.
- Contributing to the engineering and standardization of our platform architecture.
- Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the targeted availability, reliability, scalability, throughput and performance of our platform.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
- 7+ years of experience working as a backend engineer with a focus on platform development.
- Proficiency in NodeJS and Typescript, with a strong understanding of their respective ecosystems.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, low-latency and reliable platform components in production environment, while serving heavy-traffic requests.
- Solid understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience working with asynchronous flows to scale, broad experience with message brokers such as: AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
- Experience with Redis.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Experience with blockchain or cryptocurrency - Advantage.
Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms.
