Paradigm is hiring a
Principal Backend Engineer in Singapore

Summary

At Paradigm, you'll join an early-stage team building cutting-edge financial service infrastructure for CeFi and DeFi markets as a core backend engineer. Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable web services and distributed systems, trade negotiation and execution solutions, and helping maintain existing codebase and infrastructure.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team
• Working knowledge of Python and/or Golang
• Working knowledge of Database technologies(SQL/NOSQL), Caching Technologies and Distributed messaging systems
• Experience monitoring and scaling microservice-oriented systems
• Familiarity with websocket architecture and implementation
• Team-building and technical leadership experience

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web services and distributed systems
• Design and develop robust solutions for trade negotiation and execution, real-time market data, authentication and security
• Help maintain existing codebase, infrastructure, test coverage, and documentation
• Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams
• Participate in on-call rotations to assist in resolving production incidents

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems: Kafka/NATs/DynamoDb/Postgres/Redis
• Experience working with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes

Benefits

• Competitive pay and transparent pay bands
• Flexible work environment
• Unlimited vacation with a minimum required PTO of 10 days annually
• Full benefits (benefits vary by country)
• Generous technology and learning allowances: $3500 first-year budget, $2000 refresh every 2 years, and $1000 budget for learning and development materials