Member of Technical Staff -Golang Developer

JOB POSITION- FULL TIME BACKEND ENGINEER (TRADING SYSTEMS)

Satsio is an African startup that is building a crypto exchange for both spot trading and perpetual futures trading. We have many exciting and innovative features and products in the pipeline. We are looking to add to our engineering team and we are recruiting for a full time backend engineer (trading systems).

How to apply:

After reading the job description, please complete the job application via the following link: https://forms.gle/wEdVVktX3iVLCqj59

Location

This is a fully remote position. We are accepting applications from worldwide candidates.

Remuneration

Salary range in USDT shown at the top of the advert, depending on skills, experience, and location, and subject to good performance, vesting shares of 1% of the business.

Requirements

·      Proficiency in Python and expertise in working with websockets

·      Proven experience in designing and implementing complex REST APIs

·      Project experience with Flask and Django

·      Proficient with Linux and experienced working with cloud servers

·      Excellent communication skills

·      Intellectually motivated and a quick learner

·      Fluent in both spoken and written English

Preferences

·      Proficient in C++ or another low latency language

·      Experience building matching engines and trading systems

·      Experience working in the crypto exchange industry

·      Experience with blockchain nodes, creating blockchain wallet systems, cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawal systems and optimising network fees

·      Familiar with the agile development process, Github flow, and modern software engineering practices

·      Align working hours with the standard 9am-6pm UTC+1 schedule

Key Responsibilities

·      Review and understand existing backend code base and make improvements where necessary

·      Matching engine and improving its speed

·      The system that updates user balances following user transactions and performs the necessary checks prior to permitting transactions

·      Cloud server configurations and deployment and cost optimisation of resources

·      Creating APIs with supporting documentation for users who trade algorithmically directly via APIs and not via the frontend

·      Work on our p2p trading product and KYC process

·      Building the perpetual futures trading product and integrating data from 3rd party APIs

·      Performing unit tests, integrated tests, performance tests and end to end tests

·      Working on various other backend tasks that the startup requires to be done

Startup culture

Our culture is one of constant innovation. Great teamwork, creativity, a passion for innovation, constantly trying to improve, being hard working, a self starter, a quick learner, taking initiative, a can do attitude, shipping product, loyalty, and having a positive mindset are all traits which we are seeking in our future colleague. We seek to create an environment whereby colleagues can see their long-term career to be with us and to flourish with us as we grow.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES (About 10 - 11 years and at least 9 years relevant experience)

Develop Java webservices and components according to a detailed design document.

Build efficient, reusable and reliable Java code per industry best practices.

Follow TDD approach and ensure unit-test coverage meets quality requirements.

Develop Integration tests to ensure coding adheres to acceptance criteria and verify end-to-end behavior of the system.

Ensure best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of applications.

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS

Must have experience developing in Java latest version (least version is 8)

Must have experience in design and development using Micro service architecture

Solid knowledge in OOP concepts, and design principles/patterns for developing scalable applications

Must have experience developing Spring Boot applications

Must have experience developing database access layer using Spring Data JPA/Hibernates

Must have experience in developing REST Services using Spring

Good working experience in development of event driven systems using any framework

Must have experience with any RDBMS and at least one NoSQL database preferably PostgresSQL and Mongo DB

Must have experience writing unit and integration tests using Junit

Must have experience using mock frameworks like Mockito, WireMock

Must have experience using Git

Must have experience with CI / CD

Basic hands-on experience in one of the cloud provider (AWS/Azure) or at least docker and Kubernetes

Familiarity with build tools Maven or Gradle

Added advantage with experience of Reactive and Functional Programming

• Work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions

Role- Software Development Engineer-2

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#

You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.