Hydra X is a leading provider of enterprise solutions across the entire trade transaction life cycle. We provide end-to-end marketplace solutions to exchanges, OTC venues, brokers, dealers, trading companies and is embarking on a significant growth plan to expand its business.
We are recruiting a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about creating the best product possible, from initial concept through to launch.
This is an opportunity to join an entrepreneurial team, focused on innovation and building out outstanding products to support the company’s overall strategy and goals
Position Summary:
- Depending on your technical skills, you could work on our APIs, exchange technologies or our blockchain settlement products. We are constantly rolling out new features and adapting our existing products to meet user needs or address technical challenges
- Develop products relating to wallet services (e.g. hot and cold wallets) by integrating existing applications to various blockchains
- Perform regular maintenance on servers and nodes to ensure business continuity
- Partner with product managers to roll out secure and scalable products while implementing architecturally sound solutions in an Agile fashion, iterating quickly and shipping frequently
- Able to write test scripts and setup monitoring and logging infrastructure
- Document steps and processes for the setup and maintenance of infrastructure
- Provide technical support to internal and external stakeholders while being able to be on standby for incident management
What is needed:
- 4+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
- Technical experts in at least one of the following domain: Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases or AWS
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of core engineering concepts including data structures, design best practices, run-time optimizations and algorithmic complexity
- Can understand and articulate the architecture of an entire system, including technical trade-offs between different design implementations.
- Experience in writing applications using Javascript, Python, Go as well as other modern high level language
- Experience working with Ethereum Web3 libraries or other blockchain smart contracts
- Experience in managing Linux servers
- Self-motivated, able to work successfully as an individual contributor or as a team member
- Organized with attention to detail proven ability to conceptualize, plan and execute ideas while providing training and skills transfer to others
- Excellent communication in English both speak and written
Good to have:
- Understanding of regulatory compliance frameworks such as NIST
- Foundation in security topics such as Cryptography, Authentication/Authorization, etc