Backend Developer

Who we are:

EMURGO is the official commercial and venture arm of the Cardano Blockchain, a smart contract platform with advanced security assurance - Currently Top 3 of decentralized smart contract platforms and Top 10 of all cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap.

As a founding member of the Cardano protocol, EMURGO develops, supports, and incubates commercial opportunities and helps integrate businesses into our blockchain system.

Our businesses include:

EMURGO Fintech develops the best mobile and wallet applications to interact with the Cardano blockchain to serve as a baseline platform for others to build upon

EMURGO Media has developed a social content platform with the Cardano community at its core and positioned for creation, curation, aggregation and monetization of the ecosystem projects and tools.

EMURGO Academy provides Cardano blockchain courses to students and developers looking to start, or transition to, a career in the blockchain industry, as well as executives and entrepreneurs seeking to understand how Cardano blockchain might augment their businesses.

EMURGO Ventures invests in Web3 initiatives, including DeFi and NFT projects, blockchain developer education tools, and other decentralized application projects, especially those with interoperability potential, as well as middleware solutions companies in developed markets.

EMURGO Africa is an investment vehicle that also provides hands-on acceleration and incubation programs, with $100m having been earmarked for investments in Africa, where a key growth driver in the region is the use of lending and borrowing crypto services for daily life.

Overview: 

At EMURGO, we are looking for a backend developer with experience in NodeJS that will help us build new products in the blockchain space and help us add new features for some of our current projects, like our crypto wallet, Yoroi and some new stealth projects that we are starting to work on.

Yoroi is a light wallet for Cardano. It's secure, fast, and simple. It's one of the most used in the Cardano ecosystem, and we have more than 500,000 active users.

Responsibilities:

• Discuss, analyze, and understand new feature requirements with tech-lead and PM
• Develop, Deploy and Test APIs for dApps, Tools, and Libraries
• Working closely with our Devops team implement strategies to improve availability ,scalability and reliability
• Learn about Cardano, UTXO, EUTXO Design Patterns
• Actively participate in product design discussions

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Software development.
• 4+ years of experience with NodeJS (Typescript)
• Experience with network technologies, network exchange protocols, basics of the network architecture, queues, scheduling, micro services architecture and a good understanding of CAP theorem
• Experience with SQL, No-SQL and Graph database principles and technologies
• Good understanding of API architecture following best practices such as Open API/Swagger specs
• Proficiency in the creation of tests (unit tests, integration tests, etc)
• Good knowledge of Linux
• Good communication skills both verbal and written

Additional/Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with AWS or any other cloud environments
• Any experience with Haskell
• Production experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
• Production experience with multiple CI/ CD technologies
• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals

This is a Remote position