Senior Software Engineer

Circle is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to extend its in-house blockchain systems infrastructure for tokenization. The role builds scalable, secure payment and asset-transfer services and APIs, integrates with banks and financial technologies, and collaborates on system design, testing, and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for 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

Requirements:

• 6 years minimum professional software development experience in object oriented languages like Java and Go
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field (or equivalent)
• Led  teams (2-4) technically on architecture and system design
• Experience working with payment systems like credit cards and bank transfers
• A broad understanding of RESTful API design and development principles
• Experience with Cloud Services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc)
• Experience with SQL databases and designing schemas
• Proven experience in the design & deployment of production-quality, scalable software
• A 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, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision