Senior Software Engineer, Data Availability

About the opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Go developer to build tooling as it relates to collecting, ingesting, integrating, processing, transforming, storing, managing, monitoring, and optimizing blockchain data.

The Data Availability team delivers big data extraction and processing solutions with highly available APIs. We're looking for someone who can learn new blockchain data structures and contribute to Figment's data processing infrastructure.

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America and Europe. This role is unique because you get to work with many new blockchains and deliver blazingly fast APIs on huge amounts of data. This work helps people around the world to foster Web3 technologies. If you enjoy figuring out how new blockchains work and love solving distributed data processing problems, then this role may be a good fit for you. Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects.

How you will make an impact

• Create high performance indexing software to ingest data from blockchains or ingest data from other sources in Go.
• Full responsibility for technical architecting and team processes.
• Work closely with other various business units to prioritize deliverables and set timelines.
• Technical decisions between different engineering approaches and explain them to the others on the team and achieve buy-in on your proposal.
• Process big data collections and design fast-read data storages.
• Design and implement HA APIs for large blockchain datasets.
• Designing next generation data pipelines.
• Serve as a mentor for junior team members.

Who you are

• Proven extensive experience in software engineering and distributed systems
• Ability to write production-ready applications in Go
• Ability to reason about tradeoffs between different engineering approaches
• Familiar with data storage solutions (SQL/noSQL databases)
• Familiar with containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Results oriented individual with a high EQ and attention to detail.
• Architecting your own solutions for significant problems, factoring in maintenance, scalability and security concerns to your solution approach.
• Familiar with team processes based on agile methodology
• A collaborative approach to sharing ideas and finding innovative solutions
• Improve overall productivity and unblock team members through technical leadership, mentorship and leading by example.

Even better if you have

• Blockchain knowledge
• Experience working in a Data team, with data processing or any industry-standard Data tools such as Snowflake, Dagster, DBT, etc
• AWS or other Cloud Infrastructure experience

Technologies we use

Teams you’ll collaborate with most often

This role will collaborate most often with our Data Science and API teams.

Don't meet all of the qualifications?

There is research that indicates that marginalized groups often feel the need to meet 100% of the qualifications before applying for a position. However, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are what make teams stronger. If you meet the majority of the qualifications listed here, are passionate about the role and excited to contribute but don’t tick every single box, we still want to hear from you.

Why you might be excited about us

At Figment, we offer an exciting range of competitive benefits designed to support and empower every member of our team:

• 100% remote-first environment. Our flagship office is in Toronto, Canada. We also have additional co-working spaces in New York, Montreal, London, and Singapore. That means if you want to do your things in the office (if you’re near one), at home, or a bit of both, it’s up to you.
• 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days.
• Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one.
• Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements.
• A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in.
• Monthly Wifi reimbursement.
• A yearly Learning & Development budget.
• 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada).
• Stock Options in the company.
• A competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually - we believe that the company’s success should be shared with our employees often
  • For roles listed within the Sales Department, there is instead a competitive commissions structure which will be outlined during your first interview with Figment
• Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!

Other reasons you may love working at Figment

• We are a team of under 200 members, which allows for an impactful contribution from day one.
• We place a strong focus on personal career development to shape a role that fits your goals and interests. Your satisfaction and well-being matter to us, and we’re here to support your ongoing growth.
• Our culture is one of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high-growth environment.
• Our team members themselves recommend working at Figment - with an eNPS score of 54 (which is ranked as ‘great’!).
• We are also extremely proud of ranking as one of the top Web3 employers by Talent Titans.

Compensation

One of Figment’s core principles is “Making the Invisible Visible” - ensuring transparency and information sharing in all communication. Figment is committed to transparency regarding pay, benefits, and other compensation types for all internal roles as well as all roles being hired for.

Base Salary: The CAD base salary range for this position is CAD $140,000 - $170,000. The US base salary range for this position is USD $140,000 - $170,000. This range reflects base salary only, and does not include additional compensation or benefits. For candidates in other countries, the pay range will be disclosed upon your first interview with Figment (being a globally remote company, the list of salary ranges would simply be too long to note here!). The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum range for a new hire across all Canada or the US. A candidate’s specific pay within the range will be determined by various factors including job-related skills, relevant education, and training.

Interview process

At Figment, we try to go above and beyond in making sure that you have the best possible experience interviewing with us. We strive for a smooth, organized, and informative process.

• During your first Recruiter Call, you will be provided with more information about Figment, the position and what to expect for the rest of the interview process. Please be prepared to discuss why you are interested in joining Figment and what excites you about the position and company.
• As we go through the process, we work to make sure that you hear back from us in a timely fashion. If we decide at any point that we’re unfortunately not moving forward, we will give you feedback on why it was not a fit.
• We aim for the entire process to take around 2-3 weeks from initial screen to offer. There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule, that’s the time-frame you can expect.