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Company

Circle · 2 days ago

Staff Software Engineer

Boston, MA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$172K/yr - $228K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for extending Circle's in-house blockchain systems infrastructure to support the tokenization of the world; analyzing requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems and modifying systems; building and owning 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; collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to design, test, and shape Circle features, including developing and documenting system design procedures, testing procedures, and quality standards; troubleshooting program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning; building publicly accessible APIs that make it simple for developers to integrate with complex payment systems; integrating Platform Services with leading banks and financial technologies; consulting with management to ensure agreement on system principles; writing the infrastructure to deliver great payment experiences, including data sources (SQL or NoSQL), messaging systems and APIs; other duties as assigned.

Qualification

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GoJavaAPI designPayments processingBlockchainCloud servicesKubernetesSQL databasesRESTful APITechnical leadershipCoding standardsObject oriented programmingMicroservices

Required

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.

Deep understanding/experience with Web3, blockchain, smart Contract business logic.

Deep understanding/experience with RESTful API design and development principles.

Deep understanding/experience with Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc).

Deep understanding/experience with Container orchestration systems like Kubernetes or EKS, ECS.

Deep understanding/experience with 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.

Company

Circle

Glassdoor

4.1

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Founded in 2013

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

501-1000 employees

https://www.circle.com

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