Paxos is looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our Engineering team.

Paxos Crypto Brokerage

Mainstream financial institutions such as PayPal and Revolut rely on Paxos to bring digital assets to their customers with the apps that they already use. Paxos Crypto Brokerage enables hundreds of millions of consumers to leverage crypto for investing, commerce and other financial services. The crypto brokerage platform includes custody, stablecoin, electronic trading and exchange services. Compelling engineering challenges arise from continually innovating in a rapidly changing and expanding market, while also delivering extreme scaling, performance and reliability.

Paxos Engineering

Paxos Engineering takes pride in continuous innovation, high performance, effective mentoring/coaching, multi-disciplinary collaboration and the authentic application of lean/agile methods.

Paxos is building an open, accessible financial infrastructure for the future. This is an opportunity to work on something meaningful, with incredible potential for positive social and economic impact.

Core Competencies

• Strong computer science and programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
• Mastery of core engineering concepts including data structures, design best practices, run-time optimizations, and algorithmic complexity
• Mastery of multiple programming languages, including at least one of Kotlin, Golang, Rust, Java, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python
• Able to apply both OO and functional style to coding
• Solid understanding of concepts like load balancing, HA/failover, ingress, inter-service communications in a microservices style cluster, idempotence, ACID, guaranteed delivery, etc.
• UI/UX design and implementation with Node, React, Redux and TypeScript
• Technical expert in at least one domain like Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, or AWS
• Can understand and articulate the architecture of an entire system, including the technical trade-offs between different design implementations
• Familiar with digital-native online web application architectures and infrastructures, including clustering (Kubernetes), containerizing (Docker), message queuing (Kafka), telemetry/instrumentation (Prometheus/Grafana), etc.
• Eager to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse multi-disciplinary team
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders
• Constantly seeks to learn new technologies, innovate and discover better ways to solve engineering challenges

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of high quality software from concept through to launch - taking ownership of design, coding, testing and deployment of key proprietary software components of our crypto brokerage platforms
• Apply engineering best-practices including unit and integration testing, source code version control, agile planning/estimation
• Effectively resolve ambiguity, analyzing complex requirements and breaking down features and initiatives into tactical tasks
• Effectively navigate the trade-offs among MVP vs Enterprise-Grade, Time-to-market and in other relevant dimensions
• Search for the truth in product conceptualization and development, ensuring designs and implementations are fully aligned with the company mission and product goals

Required Experience

• 4+ years of software development experience

Paxos is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, color, race, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical and mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

Who we are: We are a diverse group of individuals with backgrounds and experience in banking, startups, tech giants, and big-five consulting firms. We currently have about 150 employees across offices in New York, London and Singapore and have big plans for our growth. We’re looking for collaborative, creative, hard-working and intellectually curious people to help us make our vision a reality.