Staff Software Engineer Exchange

Blockchain is the worlds leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world we share the passion to code create and ultimately build an open accessible and fair financial future one piece of software at a time.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Exchange team in our London office. Blockchain is a highperformance culture marked by fearlessness and hyper productivity. You are a hardworking team player with a desire to learn and grow with us someone who can work harder faster and smarter to deliver tangible results and process improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Build low latency scalable and highly performant exchange services including matching engine customer gateways market data connectivity to external trading systems etc.
• Deliver high quality systems that integrate testing at every development stage.
• Be a part of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users.
• Be at the forefront of the cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem building out a new set of financial services systems and architecture.
• Gain exposure to an array of low latency high throughput techniques and algorithms.
• Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data.
• Work closely with the other tech teams to seamlessly deliver the highest quality products and improve the customer experience.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• The foremost quality for this position or any position at Blockchain is integrity.
• You possess an innate curiosity and thrive on learning new technologies.
• Extensive experience in C/C development including metaprogramming.
• Experience with Java Python and SQL would be useful.
• Experience in several of the following programming areas:
• Multithreading
• Network programming including multicast
• Interprocess Communication (shared memory Unix/Linux queues)
• Performance benchmarking and tuning
• Extreme interest in delivering high quality software. This means that testing is embedded in the development process from the very beginning from coding stage (unit testing) to integration testing (local and end to end integration testing) to performance (load and capacity) testing and finally to failure recovery testing. Software engineers are fully involved in the testing process driving much of the testing at all stages.
• Experience in trading system architecture exchange gateway connectivity (binary and FIX) market data generation and ingestion high throughput low latency systems.
• You take a pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems.
• Understanding of algorithms data structures databases and largescale systems.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• Apple equipment
• Fulltime salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industryleading company
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding global technology company in an emerging field
• Flexible work culture

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race religion color national origin gender gender expression sex sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization including hiring recruiting promotion termination layoff recall leave of absence and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications merit and business needs at the time.

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