Node.js Jobs at Cake Pte Ltd

About Cake

In less than a year’s time, Cake has become one of the most well known platforms for helping customers to get cashflow for their cryptocurrencies in themost transparent way.

Are you looking to be a part of one of the fastest growing companies in the blockchain industry and help to shape behaviour on how people are dealing with their finances in the crypto and blockchain world?

We are strong believers in the potential of DeFi, and we are working everyday to push the boundaries of DeFi and Bitcoin.We work independently, take ownership of our jobs, and are passionate about making a real impact in the world we live in.

For this position we are considering remote candidates and candidates who are based locally in Singapore. Please consider adding our email domain, cakedefi.com, to your whitelist as email responses to your applications might otherwise be filtered into your "promos" folder.

About the team

Our talented engineering team pride themselves on writing good code. We care about good engineering practices, working with great people, and working on real and impactful products.

We practice test-driven development, and are more than happy to allow team members the opportunity to solve problems with unconventional or cutting-edge methods. If you care about continually improving your craft, and want to work with like-minded peers, this is the place for you!

What you’ll do:

• Design & develop Cake DeFi’s systems that are able to to process upward of thousands of transactions per second globally.
• Take full ownership for our data design, database, caching strategy while ensuring scalability and auditability.
• Design, develop, and maintain modern TypeScript Node.js applications.
• Follow and champion best coding practices when developing.
• Familiar with test-driven development (TDD) and implement unit tests for your work.
• Actively communicate with the team during development processes.
• Be willing to pick up any other technology stacks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, web3.js etc. when required.

What you’ll need:

• Experienced in designing and developing a highly scalable system that processes upward of thousands of transactions per second.
• Expert-level understanding and familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, basic cryptography and user privacy is a bonus.
• Familiar with commonly used NoSQL and Middlewares, such as Redis and Kafka
• Familiar with common network protocols (HTTP/TCP)
• Familiar with distributed systems, performance tuning, massive concurrency handling, and caching mechanisms
• Enjoy following clean code practices
• Experienced in working with code versioning system (Git), bugs and issues tracker.
• We value knowledge & skills over paper qualifications.
• Comfortable working remotely via telecommuting. We will be working closely via Slack video calls and other collaboration tools.

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
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours, unlimited discretionary leave, casual work attire