Responsibilities:

• Support, coach, and develop team members into top-performing engineers.
• Work closely in cross-functional teams where everyone is responsible for the outcome.
• Build a great place to work for talented and motivated people.
• Design, develop, and deploy backend services focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, low latency, and security.
• Take full end-to-end responsibility for the services your team owns, from development to production, operations, and data.
• Develop innovative solutions with Bitcoin at its core.

Skills needed:

• Significant software engineering experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages (we use Python).
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, comfortable preparing high-quality documentation and designs to aid understanding and knowledge sharing.
• Understanding of microservices architecture, container-based 12-factor apps, and cloud-native patterns around fault tolerance.
• Track record of using Event Storming and Domain-Driven Design, delivering highly scalable asynchronous software.
• Experience building contract-first services and adopting patterns and frameworks to enable appropriate automated testing at the unit, contract, service, and end-to-end levels.
• Experience building services that can be deployed on demand, quickly, and with quality.
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD patterns and good practices.
• Understand the role of high-quality observability in building highly scalable and performant software.

Other requirements:

• A dedicated workspace.
• A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area.
• Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.
• Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.