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About Birthday Research

Birthday Research (BR) is the Blockchain Research and Development arm of Cake DeFi, a Singapore-based blockchain and fintech company. Fuelled by the best minds in the industry, BR seeks to develop best-in-class blockchain innovations.

As a pioneering force, our work spans cryptographic research, deep blockchain consensus development, and smart contracts development — with a laser-sharp focus on driving the industry frontier while tackling the most demanding UX challenges of today.

About the role:

The Moonshot team is a brand new endeavour at Birthday Research currently focused on creating revolutionary solutions that build upon the emergence of new technologies such as Bitcoin Ordinals, Taproot Assets and STAMPs. As an early-stage isolated project, we are seeking individuals who are highly entrepreneurial and possess exceptional problem-solving skills that transcend the standard software engineering paradigm. The ideal candidate will have the opportunity to plan, design, and build within this new and quickly evolving landscape, working on products such as marketplaces and wallets built upon newly internal designed protocols alongside a talented team of individuals. The candidate will also have to possess the ability to identify the core needs of our users and craft a product that caters to their requirements while incorporating the latest features and innovations in the space.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product designers, and managers to design and develop TypeScript based applications using React, React Native, Next.js and/or Node.js. (VUE?)
• Write highly performant codes that are clean, simple, maintainable, and battle-tested with test-driven development (TDD) for maximum test coverage automated from pull request all the way to release.
• Take on active responsibility in creating highly scalable UI Components and/or backend modules for our scaling needs.
• Develop and maintain a product lifecycle from start to finish

What you’ll need:

• Experience working in a fast pace tech-driven startup as a Software Engineer with at least 4 years of experience or in a similar capacity.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript with experience working in Web, Node, or Mobile technologies.
• Experience with server-side Javascript frameworks such as express.js or NestJS.
• Ability to take full ownership and work independently while collaborating with others in a fast-paced agile and async team.
• A collaborative and resourceful individual with excellent communication skills able to make radical decisions while being empathetic and respectful.
• Willingness to pick up new and emerging bleeding edge blockchain technologies.
• Deep technical understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptography, BIPs, DeFi, UTXO, EVM, or Nakamoto Consensus is highly preferred.
• Experience participating or maintaining in open source software development is highly preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience deploying with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Experience with containerized technologies such as Docker