Senior Software Engineer -Cloud

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:

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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.

Oddr is looking for an experienced senior backend engineer to help us build scalable multi-tenanted enterprise Cloud applications. The ideal candidate should be able to bring new ideas to the table and design and develop distributed microservices with a strong emphasis on security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and quality. As a senior engineer, the candidate should be able and willing to mentor and guide fellow team members on best practices like code styling, efficiency, and testability as the team scales and grows. The candidate should demonstrate leadership qualities, be a self-motivated team player, and take pride in what they deliver.

The candidate should be interested in a long-term stable career to grow with our company. The candidate will need to work late night hours because of the geographic distribution of the team.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in .NET Core and C#
• Strong understanding of Cloud development concepts, including CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with successful end-to-end delivery of web applications in the Cloud. Azure knowledge is a strong plus.
• Experience with API-driven development and developing RESTful APIs
• Experience with database design and writing complex SQL
• Familiarity with Reactive Programming concepts
• Ability to write clean, well-structured code with adequate test coverage, proper abstraction, and reusability
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage priorities, and take responsibility for delivering to time and quality requirements
• Good understanding and experience with Agile development methodologies
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Minimum qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a reputable institute. Master's preferred.
• 5 years of experience. 7 years preferred.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the fullsite of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
• Go’s templating language
• Go’s code generation tools,such as Stringer
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools(such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. .

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly