FalconX is hiring a
Tech Lead

Summary

The job is for a software engineer at FalconX, a digital asset platform for institutions. The role involves designing and building tools to support reliable asset transfers, settlements, and trade operations. The employee will own the end-to-end engineering flow and provide support for platform-related issues.

Requirements

• BE/Btech degree with equivalent years of experience, CS preferred
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and have experience to work with production scale web applications
• At least 5 years experience writing production code in either one of the Python / Java / Golang
• At least 1 year working in AWS environment, and should be familiar with modern web technologies like AWS cloud, MySQL database, Redis caching, messaging tools like Kafka/SQS etc
• Comfortable working backend, and are excited about diving into the backend or datastore as needed
• Good knowledge regarding data structures, algorithms, and asynchronous architectures
• Understand of modern industry technical methodologies and are comfortable operating in dynamic environments
• Passionate about building an open financial system that expand our product to next level
• Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset with detail-oriented approach to operations

Responsibilities

• Design and create customer facing products and internal tools
• Write performant code adhering to company's coding style guides with proper unit test coverage
• Identify bottlenecks in the system and improve application response times
• Work with engineers, product managers, business team and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Take ownership of technical aspects of our infrastructure, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building applications around our customer’s needs
• Review and monitor current engineering work, as well as previously constructed applications, to ensure the software is running as smoothly as possible
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionality, solve complex problems with simple, intuitive, and customer focused solutions while shipping quality application
• Provide support for platform related issues; Triage and fix issues reported to help with timely resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• A plus if you have experience with docker based applications in cloud infra
• A plus if you have security experience