Amun 21Shares is hiring a

Web3 Backend Developer, Trading

About the Role:

We are looking for a talented Backend Developer with experience in software development. This person will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining code across our mission-critical products. You will be an individual contributor to cutting edge crypto projects which will be responsible for:

• market-making on centralized and decentralized exchanges
• trading desk actions
• backtesting
• market data processing

Your tasks will range from support / maintenance to extending our platform with new features to creating whole new systems, services, and applications. Our culture is about diversity, communication, collaboration and education. We are always working together across continents, building amazing experiences and learning along the way.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Help Design, develop, and maintain our technical platform, architecture, and systems.
• Communicate regularly and clearly with other team members and other ecosystem participants.
• Create high-quality software documentation and other written assets to document and explain the system design and how the system functions.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing systems/workflows for performance, speed, and accuracy.
• Work with engineers, designers, and leadership to turn our product and technical vision into deliverables each quarter.

What you need to be great in this role:

• You care about building high-quality, well-tested code at scale.
• Minimum 5 years of working experience as a back-end software engineer (Python). Previous experience in financial or trading-related environments is preferred.
• Experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), and working familiarity with various databases.
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices:
  • AWS ECR (release), EKS (deploy).
  • GitHub workflows.
  • Monitoring NewRelic.
  • Terraform

• Experience developing APIs, backend microservices, and database design.
• Familiar with the OSI model, especially regarding HTTP and WebSockets.
• You enjoy being a part of a feedback culture with shared code ownership and want to make a difference worldwide.
• The ability to work hands on as a software engineer in an agile environment with a modern tech stack.
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science (M.sc. preferred).
• You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services and know-how to compose a service-oriented architecture.
• You’ve built high reliability or security systems, and understand the importance of code robustness and quality in the financial domain.
• Understanding Blockchain, or at least very curious about Blockchain and willing to learn and keep at the forefront of cryptocurrency continually.

Our Stack:

• AWS infrastructure
• Postgresql
• Python, Cython
• Kafka
• Docker

This is a remote role.

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