Your mission
BLOCKSIZE is searching for a Golang Software Engineer on the market data team to join as soon as possible. Give your career a boost in an innovative business field!
Important: You must have worked at least two years practically as a Golang Software Engineer for a company processing market data, preferably dealing with cryptocurrencies.
Your tasks:
* Develop products and features that process real-time and historical crypto market data in innovative ways.
* Work hands-on with the APIs of centralized and decentralized exchanges.
* Create and maintain Websocket as well as RPC endpoints.
* Manage critical infrastructure, coordinate with co-workers from development, project management, quality assurance, engineering, marketing, and related fields.
Your profile
* Must-have: 2+ years practical working experience in a fintech company or financial services company in the field of financial market data, preferably crypto price feeds.
* Must-have: 2+ years experience in programming Golang or any other strongly typed programming language.
* Must-have: You must already live in Europe, in a timezone +/- 3 hours of the CET.
* Must-have: Large interest in blockchain technology and/or financial products.
* Being able to extract data from decentralized exchanges/pools for obtaining market data from there.
* You understand methodologies for crypto price feeds and strategies defined by quant analysts and can implement them on your own in programming code.
* Experience in microservice architectures, including Docker and Kubernetes.
* Basic understanding of Postgres or MySQL.
* Good understanding of Git and Jira workflows.
* Computer science fundamentals and systems design.
* You are the owner of the services you program and maintain them with the team, possibly also fixing bugs outside of normal working hours, if necessary.
* Ability to be creative and resourceful when tackling ambitious technical challenges.
* Very good English skills.
* Hands-on, collaborative, and data-driven mentality.
Nice-To-Have
* Know-how in technologies like Google Cloud Platform, gRPC, Terraform, Gitlab CI, and/or Prometheus.
* Understand the methodologies for crypto price feeds and strategies defined by quant analysts.
* You can quickly make sense of large and complex systems.
Why us?
BLOCKSIZE is a startup company and empowers financial market participants to transform their business and provide bank-grade solutions for market data, issuance, trading, staking, and managing digital assets. The market data team publishes BLOCKSIZE CONNECT which is delivering 24/7 crypto price feeds to especially financial institutions around the world with the aim of making them regulatory compliant.
BLOCKSIZE Benefits:
* Earn well, grow with BLOCKSIZE.
* Work up to 100% remote or enjoy the BLOCKSIZE office in the Frankfurt financial district.
* Educational budget, 30 days of paid vacation, and optionally Apple equipment.
* The result counts: BLOCKSIZE pursues flexible working times.
* English is the first language.
* Fitness membership and German language courses available, if you live in Germany.
* Helping you to grow to the next levels.
About us
BLOCKSIZE is a startup company and empowers financial market participants to transform their business and provide bank-grade solutions for market data, issuance, trading, staking, and managing digital assets. The market data team publishes BLOCKSIZE CONNECT which is delivering 24/7 crypto price feeds to especially financial institutions around the world with the aim of making them regulatory compliant.