Senior Backend Engineer

About Us:

Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our content, newsletters, podcasts, and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.

About the Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our team, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining the backend systems that power all our applications and services. You will be responsible for leading and scoping out feature work across our entire backend stack that powers our research product (https://blockworksresearch.com) and editorial website (https://blockworks.co; 1M+ monthly active users). This will include implementing APIs, accessing, parsing, and formatting blockchain transactions, and modeling our internal data across different databases.

Responsibilities

• ⛴ Ship fast, ship often

• 💡 Own the backend stack for our exciting crypto products

• ♻️ Participate in all aspects of product development life cycle, including system architecture/design

• ❓Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes

• 🚨 Identify project risks and work effectively to mitigate them

• 🛠 Find and fix stability/scalability issues in a very time-critical environment

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong focus on backend development and architecture using Typescript and Node.js

• Experience building fast API endpoints that can handle 1M+ requests per day

• A mature approach to automated testing, monitoring, and observability.

• Proficiency in designing and optimizing relational databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query optimization

• Experience with caching mechanisms and tools like Redis to enhance application performance and scalability

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a fast-paced environment

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment tools

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

• Strong attention to detail and ability to write clean, maintainable, and reusable code.

Nice to Have Experience

• NestJS (or similar framework)

• TypeORM (or similar database access layer)

• PHP (Legacy migration in progress)

• AWS

• ML/AI model experience

• Crypto experience

Benefits:

🧑‍💻 Remote-First: We're a remote-first organization with an office in NYC for you to utilize as you please.

🏥 100% Medical Coverage for You: Close to fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and a significant portion covered for your dependents.

🏖️ Flexible PTO: We have a flexible paid time off policy that doesn't limit the number of vacation days you can take.

👶 Parental Leave: At Blockworks, all team members are eligible for 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

💻 Hardware Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to use to purchase the tools and technology that help them be their most productive.

🌱 Learning & Growth Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to us to spend on their skill growth and professional development.

💪 Career Growth: We prioritize skill growth and career development, and we have a clear, documented structure to take the guesswork work out of individual development and career progression

🌐 Global & Diverse Team: We're a global team, and we're committed to creating an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture

Come build with us; we're just getting started!

We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.

Blockworks is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.