Protego Trust is hiring a

Web3 Software Engineer

Corporate Values Trust. It is the foundation of all we do.

Professionalism. Everyone in the organization - from the top to the newest hire - behaves professionally at all times. This means we: set and meet expectations, effectively listen and communicate, prioritize company over personal objectives, and are respectful, accountable, and reliable.

Client Success. We focus on our clients' success, because if we don't, our competitors will. We deliver first class service in a first-class way and strive to exceed expectations.

Teamwork. Positivity, authenticity, respect and collaboration focus individual accomplishments toward our organizational objectives, allowing us to achieve the extraordinary.

Ethical Ambition. We strive to obtain exceptional performance, growth and achievement for our clients, our company and ourselves while upholding the highest ethical standards.

Diversity. Of thought, of experience, of perspective. Collectively these make us a stronger team and help us avoid our individual blind spots.

Integrity. We do what is right, even if it is hard. Especially if it is hard.

The Opportunity at Protego Trust Bank, NA (in organization)

Protego is building a custody platform that can securely store and provision access to large quantities of digital assets for our financial services clients. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Portland office and bring significant software development expertise to our greenfield financial services platform. In addition, help shape the engineering team, culture, processes, and standards to enable a successful and rewarding environment for everyone. Work closely with peers, architects, IT staff, product managers, security staff, and QA to bring the company’s product vision to life while ensuring compliance with quality standards.

Objectives:

• Collaborate with other engineers, IT, and Security to ensure the infrastructure is secure, scalable, highly available, and modular
• Collaborate on the complete product lifecycle including designing and implementing the tools necessary for secure review, build, and deployment
• Recommend new technology and present ideas to improve the product, sprints, teamwork, and efficiency
• Write code that conforms to modern best practices and team coding standards
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure the ongoing accuracy and security of your code
• Code review the work of your peers with a high attention to detail
• Share expertise and knowledge with your peers to improve the team as a whole
• Communicate effectively while maintaining a cooperative environment
• Strive to continually improve and hone your skills and knowledge
• Be able to wear many hats, performing critical required duties as necessary, especially as the team is being developed
• Participate in the on-call rotation
• Occasional travel to other Protego, customer, and vendor offices

What you bring to Protego:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent professional experience
• Experience with Scala preferred. Otherwise, a high degree of proficiency in at least one programming language, and a willingness to learn. Team members who have successfully picked up Scala came in with extensive backgrounds in either Python or Typescript.
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven systems.
• Experience working with the Akka libraries preferred
• Extensive experience programmatically interacting with blockchain, in particular bitcoin and ethereum strongly preferred.
• Analytical thinker and creative problem solver
• Strong understanding of data consistency, architecting microservice applications, distributed data systems, extensible application frameworks, metadata driven platforms, and systems that can support millions of users
• Solid understanding secure engineering best practices
• Works independently, but knows when to seek input and feedback
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills and the ability to interface and influence at all levels in the organization
• Hands-on engineering expertise in the areas of specifications and tooling
• Curiosity and the belief that there is always a better way
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to add value to the platform
• Financial industry or cryptocurrency experience a large plus
• Understanding of “Infrastructure as Code” and why it’s important

Featured benefits

Employer-provided

Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k), and disability insurance

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