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

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote/Germany, Frankfurt, Home Office

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+ years practical working experience in a fintech company or financial services company in the field of 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 in Europe, in a timezone +/- 3 hours of the CET.
Must-have: Large interest in blockchain technology and/or financial products.
Being able to extract data from 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-Have

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 a startup company and empowers financial market participants to transform their business and provide bank-grade solutions for market data, issuance, trading, staking, and managing digital assets. The market data team publishes BLOCKSIZE CONNECT which is delivering 24/7 crypto price feeds to especially financial institutions around the world with the aim of making them regulatory compliant.

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We appreciate your interest in Blocksize Capital GmbH. Please fill in the following short form. Should you have any difficulties in uploading your files, please contact us by mail at career@blocksize.capital