Engineering Lead

Summary

Hex Trust is hiring a senior backend / fullstack developer to join their team in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Italy, or Vietnam. The role involves developing Blockchain and digital asset applications such as Wallets, DApps, and Crypto Trading applications, with a focus on integrating new blockchains into the platform.

Requirements

• 6+ years’ experience in backend and blockchain development required
• Proven experience in blockchain development, with a preference for applications that need to interact with the chains (Eg. wallets, trading apps, dApps)
• Familiar with the main chain types such as UTXO, account based and main transaction types such as transfers, approvals, voting, staking (on multiple chains), delegations, dApp interactions, communication protocols such as Wallet Connect
• Experience with microservices architectures deployed on the cloud
• Sound experience with strongly typed, compiled languages such as Golang, Rust, Java (Spring/SpringBoot) or C++
• Understand code written in Node.js TypeScript
• Preference for experience with message broker / queue systems (eg. Kafka, RabbitMQ)  to feed multiple consuming services or receive from multiple producing services
• Familiar with concurrency and experience in dealing with concurrent design patterns, best practices and troubleshooting
• Familiar with docker, CI/CD pipelines and deployments on cloud environments
• Familiar with OpenAPI standards documentation and declarations
• Experience in using Kubernetes clusters as a developer
• Familiar with the fundamentals of security and advocate  in terms of api design, secrets management, data encryption, dependency management
• Experience in relational DBs and data schema management
• Experience in Shell scripting
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology an advantage
• Strong communication skills in English
• Strong and proven skills in team leadership
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members
• Attention to detail, with the ability to work independently in an ambiguous, and often fast-paced environment
• Good planning, coordination, and communication skills
• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (including English language skills) and the ability to interact promptly and professionally with teams across different time zones

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute in the technical solutions design and full development life cycle
• Efficiently investigate the use cases to support on new chains, together with the business teams and understand what is required in order to implement on HexTrust platform
• Design and update architecture diagrams and sequence diagrams in a microservices context
• Provide leadership to technical resources to meet project deadlines and ensure project objectives are met in an efficient way
• Promote and ensure good coding practices to ensure maintainability, simplicity and loose coupling of components
• Define the relevant aspects of the platform architecture
• Coach the team on code quality, maintainability and good practices in code development
• Enhance productivity and performance of the team, reducing rework and waste of time and increasing efficiency
• Directly engage with the product management for requirement analysis and clarifications and play a key role in assisting engineering/product management to define product and engineering road-map items
• Design and implement platform security (including endpoint security), according to company’s security guidelines
• Provide realistic and accurate estimates and continuously improves team productivity to achieve on-time Delivery
• Follow the software engineering processes, agile practices and motivate his/her team members to do so
• Escalate and communicate issues, risks and concerns to the management on time

Benefits

• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Professional Learning and Development Opportunities
• Elevate your work using cutting-edge technology