At FalconX, you'll help create a more open financial system. By building trading, credit, and custody infrastructure, we enable thousands of institutions to enter the market, supporting a more accessible financial system. The world’s largest financial institutions, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, will turn to you for products that provide seamless, efficient, and secure access to the cryptocurrency sector.
Position Overview:
FalconX is hiring a Software Engineer focused on Blockchain to introduce a new, in-demand product line that integrates seamlessly with our proprietary, best-in-class Prime Brokerage platform. You will be instrumental in implementing critical blockchain infrastructure supporting all major chains and protocols. This implementation must be designed for ease of integration into the broader technology stack and demonstrate ease of use, operational efficiency, security, and stability.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the implementation of the Web3 stack across all major chains and protocols.
- Scale and operate robust services to enable customers to interact with various blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others.
- Implement blockchain capabilities on our existing wallet infrastructure, including staking, governance, etc.
- Drive innovation by safely adopting and testing new technologies and products in the blockchain space.
- Strive for generalization across blockchains instead of specialization.
- Integrate blockchain data and primitives into the rest of the platform stack through repeatable and generalizable interfaces.
- Take ownership of technical aspects and ensure technology is designed and built around our customers' needs.
- Build and deliver against an aggressive product roadmap supporting strategic business initiatives.
- Rapidly iterate to add new, emerging functionality while ensuring the highest quality.
- Provide ongoing maintenance of the technology stack as it matures, ensuring the highest reliability, impeccable performance, and ease of use.
- Provide timely support to customer issues and triage quickly and effectively.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience shipping and maintaining multiple projects with a large user base, supporting each through multiple years of iteration and growth.
- Expertise in writing production code in Java, TypeScript, Go, Python, or equivalent.
- Good understanding of different consensus protocols.
- Strong working knowledge of modern software development methodologies and software design patterns.
- Experience building robust backend services at scale.
- A self-starter eager to explore, iterate, and contribute to decision-making.
- Experience working with existing Blockchain-as-a-Service stacks is a plus.
- Familiarity with cryptographic signing algorithms, asymmetric cryptography, and key management is a plus.
Join FalconX and be a part of revolutionizing the financial system with cutting-edge blockchain solutions.
