Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Circle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for extending Circle's in-house blockchain systems infrastructure and building scalable microservices for reliable APIs that facilitate value transfer across blockchain and traditional banking protocols.

Responsibilities

• Extending Circle's in-house blockchain systems infrastructure to support the tokenization of the world
• Analyzing requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems and modifying systems
• Building and owning scalable microservices that are responsible for reliable and secure APIs that transfer value and assets across all blockchain protocols as well as traditional banking protocols
• Collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to design, test, and shape Circle features, including developing and documenting system design procedures, testing procedures, and quality standards
• Troubleshooting program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning
• Building publicly accessible APIs that make it simple for developers to integrate with complex payment systems
• Integrating Platform Services with leading banks and financial technologies
• Consulting with management to ensure agreement on system principles
• Writing the infrastructure to deliver great payment experiences, including data sources (SQL or NoSQL), messaging systems and APIs
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• 7 years minimum professional software development experience in object oriented languages like Go or Java
• Computer Science degree or a closely related field (or foreign equivalent)
• Technical leadership of teams >4 on architecture and system design
• Expert in one of the domains of API design, payments processing, or blockchains
• Deep understanding/experience with: Architecture, design, and deployment of production-quality, scalable software
• Deep understanding/experience with: Web3, blockchain, smart Contract business logic
• Deep understanding/experience with: RESTful API design and development principles
• Deep understanding/experience with: Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc)
• Deep understanding/experience with: Container orchestration systems like Kubernetes or EKS, ECS
• Deep understanding/experience with: SQL databases and designing schemas
• Deep focus on coding standards and code quality -- a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively
• Self-starter with a curious mindset, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision

Benefits

• We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
• Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
• Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to [email protected] for support.

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