Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Role:

Senior Software Engineer - Ledger Team
Placement Type:
Direct Placement
Workplace Type:
Remote

Location:

Toronto, Ontario

Your Role
As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The Ledger Team is responsible for building a modern ledger system, whose purpose is to maintain a complete and correct view of everything that has ever happened in every account. From a business perspective, the ledger provides a structured and organized system for recording and aggregating transactional data. It plays a crucial role in supporting financial reporting, decision-making, and compliance. From an engineering perspective, the ledger serves as the source of truth for many services.
For this role, we are seeking an experienced engineer who is obsessed with delivering defect-free solutions, has proven experience architecting and building at scale, and who is not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals in cooperation with a cross-functional team.

Things You Get To Do

Collaborate with internal stakeholders–including finance, operations, and product teams–to deliver high-impact features/projects

Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability in mind

Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment

Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of systems

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

A seasoned engineer, with 5+ years experience working on systems at scale

Obsessed with performant, defect-free maintainable code

A strong problem solver with a proactive mindset

A collaborator who is capable of creating alignment with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike

Comfortable working heads-down or tag-teaming problems

Strong coding skills, preferably in Go

Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely

Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g., GCP), and relational databases (e.g., Postgre

SQL)

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)

Experience in the financial services or accounting industry

Experience with distributed systems/databases

Experience with event driven systems and messaging brokers (e.g., Redpanda)

Experience working remotely

Experience working at a startup

#J-18808-Ljbffr