Senior Software Engineer - Bluefin

About Bluefin

• We’re building cutting-edge, decentralized exchange infrastructure in our vision to advance derivatives trading, the largest market by trading volume
• Bluefin is backed by Polychain Capital, Susquehanna, Cumberland DRW, Brevan Howard, Alliance and other leading investors

Our Culture

We are a team of doers that trust each other and value kindness. Our shared passion for learning and relentless drive to make everything better bring us together. We love what we do and are constantly trying new things with a bias to action and healthy debate.

What you will do

• Work closely with leadership to understand the organization's goals and set technical direction
• Solve challenging distributed systems problems around scalability, reliability, high availability for the core trading API, web sockets, datastore services, and new initiatives
• Continually iterate on the security measures taken to ensure the resiliency of the protocol through threat modeling brainstorms and internal security reviews
• Lead the effort on exploring ambiguous and novel solutions to complex problems that are inherent to the company’s success
• Review and be the primary author of documentation for the undertakings, services, and code that you produce
• Be a steward of the engineering culture at Bluefin by coaching and mentoring engineers, participating in code & architectural reviews, and spearheading initiatives for higher developer productivity and team efficiency

What you will bring

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience and recent experience with at least one modern language such as TypeScript, Go, or Rust
• 2+ years of experience being a technical lead and/or mentoring others
• Experience scaling up teams/organizations to deliver technical solutions to business goals
• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Expertise in SQL queries, database performance tuning, and scalable schema design
• Hands-on experience with data-processing systems (e.g., Lambda architecture, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ELK)
• Storage solutions (Cassandra, Postgres, Redis, Zookeeper)
• VMs and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making
• You thrive in ambiguity; complex and fuzzy requirements are more common than clearly defined customer expectations
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills. You understand the importance of good technical documentation and well-structured design proposals.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)
• Annual ski trips, events, and travel
• Company paid co-working space/desk at an office
• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance in US (stipend if remote)
• Take as much time off as you need to be productive
• Parental leave
• Stipend to set up your home office (4k display, desk, chair etc.)
• Latest productivity software like Notion and Linear