We are a diverse team that takes pride in understanding the perspectives of others. We fully embrace working remotely and we are eager to act, improve and accelerate progress inside and outside of our organization.
To drive revolutionary changes in society and make crypto useful, we delight our customers with world-class products, deep care, and intentional empathy.
Your Purpose
You will work in the Core Services fleet, Blackbird squad.
We build, optimize and iterate on the trading engine, a high performing distributed system, which is at the heart of Bitso.
Much like the SR-71, Blackbird's performance and operational achievements place it at the pinnacle of software engineering technology developments.
In order to remain at the forefront of performance and technology, we expect you to:
- Take ownership of decisions within your domain, helping teammates make better decisions.
- Provide support and mentorship to your teammates so that they’re able to write and ship code for our most important services
- Drive, organize, implement and deliver critical fleet level initiatives
- Drive planning and alignment efforts, supporting teams in achieving their goals and delivery high quality, high performance, working software
- Define and own goals related to the technical roadmap, ensuring high-quality software/systems.
- Identify inefficiencies and drive improvements within your domain.
- Write complex, high-quality processes and procedures.
- Drive testing and code quality standards, balancing business needs with technical requirements.
Reports To
Core Services Engineering Manager.
Who You Are
Failure to meet any of the following required qualifications could result in an automatic rejection.
- +10 years of experience in backend development.
- Proven working experience with Java 8 or above.
- Excellent verbal and written language communication skills (English language proficiency required)
- Proven ability to collaborate in an agile environment.
- A track record of influencing both stakeholders and team members.
- We expect solid knowledge of:
- Experience in high frequency trading, algorithmic trading or the trading domain in general
- Knowledge on how trading systems work
- Experience designing and building low latency distributed systems
- Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development (Experience with tools like Mockito, Spock, Cucumber etc)
- Object Oriented and Functional Programming design (Java and Spring mostly) - API Design and Testing.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. (Experience with tools like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker are a great fit)
- Software Architectures and System Design.
- Databases (PostgreSQL is a plus)
- Understanding of Cloud Architectures, Microservices and Distributed Systems.
- Containerization (Kubernetes and Docker)
What You Will Do
- Mentorship: Establish explicit mentor/mentee relationships with junior colleagues and scale mentoring to entire teams.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure alignment of software/systems quality, making appropriate trade-offs.
- Technical Leadership: Drive the design and implementation of large-scale systems and architectures.
- Troubleshooting: Proficiently troubleshoot issues within your domain and involve necessary stakeholders when needed.
- Optimization: Implement changes based on operational data to enhance stability and performance.
- Communication: Foster a culture of clear, effective communication, delivering praise and constructive feedback.
- Collaboration: Manage cross-team dependencies and commitments, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy.
- Knowledge Sharing: Promote documentation and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
- Innovation: Provide technical guidance, set standards, and drive innovation aligned with company goals.
Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.
#LI-Remote
With over 8 million users, Bitso is the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America. We are developing the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the region and enabling financial inclusion. We believe crypto is the future of finance, and we’re committed to making it useful by providing equal access to safe and intuitive financial products.
When we hire people for our team, we specifically test for the following traits in addition to our cultural values:
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Mission-Driven: We seek individuals who are passionate about crypto and Bitso’s mission and resilient in facing industry challenges
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High Sense of Urgency: We prioritize candidates who demonstrate a high sense of urgency and responsibility.
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Exceptional Hard Skills: We seek individuals who possess exceptional skills in their respective fields, with no room for mediocrity.
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Self-Management: We look for individuals who can independently manage their work, career, and professional development.
Compensation & Benefits
At Bitso, you are taking the front seat on the edge of crypto innovation, creating the next generation of crypto-powered products.
So for those willing to commit, adapt and pioneer the most important change of the century we offer:
- Me Time program, including unlimited paid time off.
- Remote-first work environment.
- Employee Stock Option program.
- Zero trading fees through our Bitso Alpha app.
- Extended Family Leave Policy: all birthing parents, non-birthing parents and adopting parents are eligible for a 4-months leave.
- Premium health, dental and life insurances in Mexico, Gibraltar, Colombia, USA, Brazil and Argentina.
- Volunteering days.
- Monthly stipend for gym memberships, relaxation activities, sports equipment, cooking classes, books, entertainment and more.
Want to leave an undoubtedly legacy with us? Fasten your seatbelt and join this spaceship, where you will find exponential growth and the opportunity to thrive!
- These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.
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What We Do
Bitso is Latin America’s leading Financial Services company powered by crypto. With millions of clients, we are leading the financial revolution with borderless, secure, transparent, and accessible financial products.
With the mission to unlock the power of borderless, secure, and easy-to-use financial products by making crypto useful, we are committed to empowering the region with universal access to the digital economy of the future and enabling a fairer monetary system
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