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Posted May 17, 2022
CertiK

Senior / Principal Full Stack Software Engineer, Certified Systems

New York / Seattle / Bay Area / Remote Full Time

About the Company Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing...

About the Company
Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness.

CertiK is one of the fastest growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security and has become a true market leader. To date, we have collectively worked with over 1700 enterprise clients, helped secure over $90 billion worth of digital assets, and detected over 23,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz. Our Q1 2021 revenues have more than quadrupled the revenue of the full 2020 year. Since Q1 2020, our team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talents located worldwide.

CertiK just raised over $60 million in Series B and B+ funding rounds in 2021. Our investors include top VCs like Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and Hillhouse Capital as well as industry leaders like Coinbase Ventures and Binance.

Certified Systems is the core organization in CertiK delivering the advanced blockchain security technologies, tooling, platform, and services for the entire CertiK team to use for serving the security protection demand of CertiK's clients.

About You
You’re a self-starter. You believe in tackling the most important problems, even if they are the most difficult problems. You’re comfortable with the unknown and understand that #startuplife means that you’re going to be wearing multiple hats. And that’s what motivates you. You’re accountable and obsessed with improvement, both in yourself and in others. You’re up to the challenge of building a world-class company that aims to be the infrastructure for more secure software for all.
About the Role
The primary responsibility of this role is for CertiK blockchain related products. CertiK’s blockchain aims to provide an end-to-end blockchain security ecosystem, where security and correctness are ensured at each layer of the blockchain infrastructure. This includes off-chain and cross-chain protocol, smart contract, programming language and compiler, smart contract execution, blockchain consensus, and OS & Storage system.
As a passionate fullstack engineer at CertiK, you will be developing consumer-focused products and features for CertiK platforms. These include several products ranging from client portals to monitoring systems, and blockchain analysis & Insight (AI) tools. You will get an opportunity to build the products from the ground up here. This means you can involve in all the stages of the product development & development lifecycle as: idea generation, user interviews, planning, design, prototyping, execution, shipping, and iteration.


Responsibilities

  • Develop End-to-End customer-facing features from web/mobile portal to back-end service.
  • Take ownership of all aspects of the software -- front end, backend, design, architecture, and operations
  • Be flexibility to work on all aspects of delivering working software, including analysis, design, automated testing, operations, CI/CD, cross-team collaboration, and support
  • Architect, design, implement, test and deliver highly scalable products.
  • Master our development process, culture and code base, then improve it.
  • Operate effectively in the hybrid engineering model where engineers are expected to be able to design and execute the necessary work to ensure quality in their own code as well as other engineers'.
  • Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
  • Present your own designs to internal/external groups and review designs of others
  • Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics.
  • Learn new technologies to keep your skills current.
  • Grow and scale your abilities as the company grows.
  • Requirements
  • (for senior candidates) 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficient in one of the front-end tech stacks like Javascript/HTML/CSS and frameworks like reactjs/vuejs/angular
  • Proficient in back-end languages like Python/Ruby/Golang and able to implement web servers & API services
  • Solid fundamental computer science knowledge like data structure, algorithms, databases/SQL, testing, CI/CD, GIT, and shell scripts
  • Experience with server-side concepts (microservices, caching, performance, monitoring and scalability)
  • Familiar with AWS cloud technologies (e.g. S3, EC2, Lambda etc)
  • Fast-paced programming mentality with ability to turn things around quickly
  • Strong and creative problem-solving skills; always willing to embrace new technologies and collaborate
  • Bonus Points
  • (Preferred) Prior experience with blockchain systems.
  • (Preferred) Prior experience in a fast-paced, growing start-up environment.
  • This listing expired on May 23. Applications are no longer accepted.

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