Key skills
PythonFastAPIPoetryPylintMypyBlackIsortPytestSQLPostgreSQLRedisSolidityEVM smart contract developmentweb3pyFoundryGitHubGitHub ActionsAWSTerraformArgoCDUnit TestingpoetrySmart ContractsBlockchainDeFiCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Merciv is the company behind Odos, a smart order routing solution for trading digital assets across decentralized exchanges. The Backend Engineer will play a crucial role in building and updating core API microservices and collaborate on the design and development of EVM smart contracts.
Responsibilities:
- Design, development, and deployment of new features to api.odos.xyz and various internal backend services
- Support the development, auditing, and deployment of new and existing smart contracts for the Odos platform
Requirements:
- Python API microservice development, preferably in FastAPI
- Poetry or similar for dependency management
- Maintaining codebase style with Pylint / Mypy / Black / Isort or similar
- Unit testing with Pytest
- SQL relational database development (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Redis for cache and volatile data storage
- Experience with EVM smart contract development using Solidity
- Libraries for interacting with blockchain data, web3py preferred
- Testing with Foundry or similar blockchain forking frameworks
- Planning tasks with github issues
- Working with branches and pull requests
- Automation of various CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions
- Basic understanding of AWS services and terraform configs a plus
- Orchestration of application deployment configs via ArgoCD or similar
- Comfortable with taking ownership of the planning and execution of production releases
- Experience with high-intensity fast-moving teams or start-ups specifically
- Creative and analytical problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills to confidently and clearly articulate thoughts
- Self-starter who proactively looks for opportunities to contribute to the team, and can work independently on deliverables
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience preferred
- You have worked previously in DeFi or other crypto protocols
- Experience with Web3 specific libraries and blockchain data APIs
- You have database experience as well to support on other initiatives
- Experience with API based payment platforms, such as Stripe