Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 1-3 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: Accept all the time
What will you be doing?
As a Backend Software Engineer at Spaceship, you will be part of the team building the platform and features for the next generation of Spaceship products - with the intention to transform the way people think about and invest their money.
We have an open culture where we’re constantly challenging each other to make the best decisions for the stack and product together, and we have leaders who understand that quality code is essential to a scalable and long lasting products. This has resulted in a modern and consistent tech stack which we can build upon quickly and safely.
Some of the unique and interesting business problems our backend system deals with:
- Automatic daily striking of unit prices for Spaceship Voyager, involving calculating stock prices, portfolio holdings, dividends and cash.
- Processing a high volume of member deposits and withdrawals.
- Sophisticated fraud, money laundering, terrorism financing prevention mechanisms.
- API integrations with our banking, finance and Know Your Customer (KYC) partners.
The main tech we work with includes:
- Go backend microservices (with gRPC)
- GraphQL
- Postgres
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes
- Pub Sub
- Datadog (we love our monitoring!)
- On the front end - React Native and React web
What are we looking for?
Our preference is to hire a mid-senior backend engineer with experience in the technologies we are using, but at the same time, we know the best people learn quickly. So if you’re an awesome engineer with a different profile - we are still interested.
That being said, our ideal wish list is:
- 3 years experience as a backend software engineer.
- Proficiency in some of the above listed backend technologies (or similar).
- Full-stack experience (Frontend and/or DevOps) welcomed and encouraged.
What are the perks and benefits?
- Competitive salary equity options.
- Flexibility to work from home or the office.
- Health and wellness benefits.
- Learning and development allowance.
- Working from home allowance.
