Golang / Go Job: Senior Software Engineer, Core Indexing (Golang)

Senior Software Engineer, Core Indexing (Golang) at Figment

Remote › Worldwide, 100% remote position   (Posted Mar 22 2022)

About the company
At Figment, our mission is to create an Internet that is truly decentralized where users can freely interact, share, collaborate, and exchange goods and services in a trustless environment. We offer staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for token holders and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technologies. Together, we can build a better Internet.

Job description
We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to help grow the Core Indexers team.

The Core Indexers team delivers big data extraction and processing solutions with highly available APIs.
We're looking for someone who can learn new blockchain data structures and contribute to Figment's data processing infrastructure.

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
This role is unique because you get to work with many new blockchains and deliver blazingly fast APIs on huge amounts of data. This work helps people around the world to foster Web3 technologies. If you enjoy figuring out how new blockchains work and love solving distributed data processing problems, then this role may be a good fit for you. Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects.

Responsibilities/Duties

Create high performance indexing software to ingest data from blockchains
Process big data collections and design fast-read data storages
Develop indexing infrastructure with the rest of the Core Indexers team
Design and implement HA APIs for large blockchain datasets

Qualifications

Significant experience with software engineering and distributed systems
Ability to write applications in Go
Ability to reason about tradeoffs between different engineering approaches
Familiar with data storage solutions (SQL/noSQL databases)
Familiar with containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes

Nice to Haves

Rust experience
Experience with data processing
AWS or other cloud infrastructure experience

Benefits & Impact

Remote First + Hybrid Working Environment: Fully remote first teams with regular team retreats to foster team bonding.
Professional Culture: A culture of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high growth environment
Work/Life Flexibility: remote work with a flexible PTO policy - 20 days PTO plus 5 flexible days.
Family-Friendly Benefits: best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements
Health & Wellness: company-paid medical/vision/dental for employee and family
Compensation: Comprehensive package including competitive salary, bonus and equity

About Figment
At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem. This is Figment’s unique approach: we make it simple to build on the next generation of blockchain technology.

We provide enterprise grade node and staking infrastructure and developer tools while also actively participating in community & governance.

Apply now!