Senior Software Engineer Job at Structure Financial

Structure Financial is founded by MIT & Jump Trading alumni; backed by Polychain Capital; Structure empowers anyone in the world to access quality financial markets with ease.The Structure app replaces an antiquated financial system crippled by waste and opacity; we are repackaging legacy financial products that were designed for exclusivity and non-participation and transforming them into digital assets that are fit for a global public.

We are a global, remote-first team of engineers, designers, traders, and innovators of all kinds working together to build solutions for globally systemic financial systems. We value innovative ideas and encourage the audacity required to bring those ideas to life.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Software Engineer

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria (On-site)
Job type: Full-time 
Career level: Mid-Senior level

Responsibilities

• Drive high-level, scalable innovation across Structure's backend infrastructure
• Design, develop, and implement key features that drive user engagement
• Drive an innovative vision for the backend infrastructure
• Design, build and maintain highly scalable and reliable infrastructure, APIs, and services
• Lead system design/development discussions, standup sessions, code reviews, and coaching meetings.
• You'll own best practices for backend infrastructure with a focus on high throughput, high reliability, and low latency
• Debug issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Collaborate with a global team of engineers, PMs, designers, and other colleagues.

Requirements

• BS / MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of server-side/backend development experience
• 3+ years of advanced programming experience (Java, C++, Python, Go, Rust)
• Strong experience with CQRS and event sourcing architectures
• Strong experience with RESTful API design and messaging/stream-processing
• Experience with unit & functional testing, troubleshooting, and debugging
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Excellent ability to communicate and work within a tight, cross-functional team of engineers
• An optimistic and collaborative attitude
• Attention to detail
• Passionate about crypto, blockchain, and/or DeFi innovation

Preferred Experience (Not Required):

• Recent experience in the FinTech, blockchain, or digital assets industry
• A proponent of open-source software licenses
• Experience working with a globally distributed, remote-first team

What We Offer

• Cash: Competitive Performance-Based Salary + Merit Increase & Spot Bonus Opportunities
• Equity: Generous Stock Option Packages for Performance
• Tokens: Genesis Block Token Allocations
• Time Off: Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexibility: Work from Anywhere, Agile Environment, and more!