Javascript Jobs at Cake Pte Ltd

About Birthday Research- Blockchain R&D wing of Cake Defi

Birthday Research (BDR) is the Blockchain Research and Development wing of Cake DeFi, a Singapore-based blockchain, and fintech company. Fuelled by the best minds in the industry, BDR seeks to develop best-in-class blockchain innovations with the mission of enabling the next bound of Web3.

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 DeFi challenges of today. To date, one of our core contributions, DeFiChain, has garnered over 1 billion USD in total value locked on the layer-1 protocol.

We are a fast-growing, globally distributed, close-knit team of multi-disciplinary doers and getters. Join Birthday Research today to be a part of the driving force shaping the future of decentralization.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams to design and develop blockchain products and/or systems.
• Take an active responsibility in creating highly scalable blockchain products and/or systems for our scaling needs.
• 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.
• Taking on the polyglot hat and deep-diving into multiple codebases (C/C++/JS/TS/Rust) to contribute and understand how things work under the hood.

What you’ll need:

• Experience working in a fast pace tech-driven startup as a Software Engineer with at least 2 years of experience or in a similar capacity.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript with experience working in Web, Node, or Mobile technologies.
• 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.

Why Work With Cake

• Do something with purpose; Be a part of the future that will shape on how people are dealing with their finances in Crypto and Blockchain
• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems
• International, diverse work environment and flat hierarchy
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company