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Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) at Priority Crypto, Accra, Ghana

Priority Crypto

Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) at Priority Crypto, Accra, Ghana

Priority Crypto

Full time Job

Date Posted: March 6, 2024

Application deadline:

Expired on: March 12, 2024 12:00am

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Job description

With a growing team of 40+ people, our client is obsessed with DeFi infrastructure, aggregating and optimising the most important parts of it to accelerate the widespread adoption of crypto.

What’s in it for you?

  • Negotiable salary – our client is ready to pay adequately for the right skills and experience.
  • Choose your ultimate work computer
  • Enjoy the freedom of unlimited remote days and flexible hours that suit you.
  • Join in for epic annual team off-site activities
  • Boost your skills with a cool €1000 personal development budget each year after your first 6 months (pro-rated for your first year).
  • They’ve got your back with a one-time €1000 remote budget for your dream co-working space or office setup.
  • Start your journey with our client and dive into equity participation from day one!

More about the client and the role:

  • Our client aims to create a seamless bridge between different DeFi (Decentralised Finance) protocols.

The role will involve:

  • Leading and actively participating in the design, development, and maintenance of backend systems and APIs.
  • Architecting and implementing scalable and robust backend solutions that can handle growing user loads and evolving business needs.
  • Maintaining high coding standards, conducting code reviews, and ensuring best practices for code maintainability and readability.
  • Identifying bottlenecks and optimising code and algorithms to improve system performance.
  • Implementing monitoring and debugging tools to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high system availability.
  • Developing and maintaining comprehensive test suites, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability of backend systems.
  • Providing guidance and mentorship to junior developers, helping them grow their technical skills.
  • Analysing complex technical problems and proposing effective solutions to address them.
  • Documenting code, APIs, and technical processes to facilitate knowledge sharing within the team and support onboarding of new developers.

Who are we looking for?

  • Must be located in the EMEA region.
  • Strong TypeScript experience is a must.
  • Extensive professional experience in a similar role (as senior or lead).
  • Understanding of Document Databases and Caching.
  • Experience in software design and architecture.
  • Deep knowledge of testing frameworks and principles.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Proactivity, strong ability to work well within a team and to be self-guided on a day-to-day basis.
  • Ability to write maintainable, scalable, production-grade code.
  • Passion for new technologies and ability to autonomously evaluate them and make suggestions for improvement.
  • Very strong verbal and writing skills in English to allow effective communication with team members and stakeholders in meetings and documents.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science is a plus.
  • Previous working experience in the blockchain space, technical understanding of the EVM ecosystem (or other ecosystems) is a plus.
  • Some experience with smart contract development would be a plus.

Application deadline:

Expired on: March 12, 2024

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