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Lead Software Engineer Crypto Market Data (m/f/x)

UNLIMITED HOLIDAYS - EXTRA HOLIDAYS - EXTRA PARENTAL LEAVE - LONG REMOTE PERIOD ALLOWED

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Salary:

6 - 6K yearly

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

Germany

Offer summary

Qualifications:

4+ years experience in financial market data, programming (Golang or other strongly typed languages), living in Europe, interest in blockchain technology, microservice architectures, Git/Jira workflows, strong English skills..

Key responsabilities:

Develop innovative products with real-time and historical crypto market data, lead a team of 2-4 engineers, maintain backend infrastructure, manage websockets and RPC endpoints, coordinate with cross-functional teams.

BLOCKSIZE Financial Services Startup

11 - 50 Employees

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Job description

Your missions

Your mission

BLOCKSIZE is searching for a Lead Software Engineer Crypto Market Data on the market data team to join as soon as possible. Give your career a boost in an innovative business field!

Your Tasks:

Develop products and features that process real-time and historical crypto market data in innovative ways; connect DEX and CEX data, support the operation of Blockchain nodes, implement highest standard of outlier detection methodology and monitoring schemes.
You will take ownership for the market data infrastructure running in the GCP cloud.
You will lead other software engineers in the market data team (2-4 developers).
Work hands-on and own the backend-infrastructure including data ingestion and external APIs
Create and maintain Websocket as well as RPC endpoints.
Manage critical infrastructure, coordinate with co-workers from development, project management, quality assurance, engineering, marketing, and related fields.
Your mission is to provide financial institutions and Smart Contracts in the DeFi space with the most reliable and accurate market data in the crypto space.

Your profile

Must-have: 4+ yearsÂ practical workingÂ experienceÂ in a fintech company or financial services companyÂ in the field ofÂ financial market data, preferably crypto price feeds.
Must-have: 4+ years experience in programming Golang or any other strongly typed programming language.
Must-have: You must already live inÂ Europe, inÂ a timezone +/- 3 hours of the CET.
Must-have: Large interest in blockchain technology and/or financial products.
Being able to extract data fromÂ decentralized exchanges/pools for obtaining market data from there.
You understand methodologies for crypto price feeds and strategies defined by quant analysts and can implement them on your own in programming code.
Experience in microservice architectures, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Basic understanding of Postgres or MySQL.
Good understanding of Git and Jira workflows.
Computer science fundamentals and systems design.
You are the owner of the services you program and maintain them with the team, possibly also fixing bugs outside of normal working hours, if necessary.
Ability to be creative and resourceful when tackling ambitious technical challenges.
Very good English skills.
Hands-on, collaborative, and data-driven mentality.

Nice-To-HaveÂ

Know-how in technologies like Google Cloud Platform, gRPC, Terraform, Gitlab CI, and/or Prometheus.
You can quickly make sense of large and complex systems.
You are good in communication and you do not hesitate to join technical meetings with business partners or customers.

Why us?

Earn well, grow with BLOCKSIZE.
Work up to 100% remote or enjoy the BLOCKSIZE office in the Frankfurt financial district.
Educational budget, 30 days of paid vacation, and optionally Apple equipment.
The result counts: BLOCKSIZE pursues flexible working times.
English is the first language.
Fitness membership and German language courses available, if you live in Germany.
Helping you to grow to the next levels.

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About us

BLOCKSIZE is the leading provider for accurate crypto market data distributed through own oracle blockchain node infrastructure. We empower Decentralized Applications as well as traditional financial institutions to trade, issue, store and manage digital assets through our high quality market data and resilient blockchain node infrastructure. We are on a mission to become the largest Decentralized Oracle Node Operator and Validator Node Operator in the Web3 space to empower the next generation of financial applications.