Senior Software Engineer
Company Overview
Unchained offers a suite of bitcoin financial services built on top of a unique collaborative custody model. These include: buying and selling bitcoin directly to and from cold storage, bitcoin retirement accounts, bitcoin-backed loans, concierge services to educate clients on best security practices, and cold storage solutions for institutions and other businesses.
Position Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to help lead the development of innovative financial technology solutions within Unchained. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in software architecture and design patterns to drive the development of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to architect, implement, and deploy mission-critical systems that shape the future of finance. You are both a high performing individual contributor and a leader that knows how to make engineers around them better through your own work as well as through mentoring and collaboration.
Unchained Engineering is filled with talented, hard-working, and passionate engineers. We want to see a strong sense of ownership, intrinsic drive, and a desire to learn and grow. We hold each other to a very high standard and expect that accountability to be mutual. Finally, we strive to embody aspects of the Bitcoin ethos – transparency, brutal honesty, and proof of work. If that sounds like just the thing you’ve been missing in your career up to this point – we look forward to seeing you in the inbox.
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and deliver new cross-application features, including making major changes to our existing schemas or APIs
- Applying of domain specific knowledge of bitcoin and traditional financial services that help you anticipate architecture and product decisions
- Review pull requests for our proprietary and open source code repositories
- Identify opportunities to improve existing systems and workflows for security, flexibility and usability
- Ruthlessly rewrite, refactor, and improve our existing code
- Contribute to our engineering and product roadmaps
- Break down complex engineering projects and contribute to delivery estimates
- Participate in the larger engineering culture through presentations, blog posts, Lunch and Learns, code reviews, and documentation
Who You Are
- You have experience with some or all of our stack: Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy / alembic, pytest), Celery, PostgreSQL, Pydantic / OpenAPI, Redis, NodeJS, Javascript/Typescript, React, Git
- You have experience with Docker and containers
- You are naturally curious
- You have strong communication and documentation skills
- You have excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- You are a self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
- You reside in the United States and are authorized to work without sponsorship
Nice to Haves
- You have experience with Kubernetes and Helm charts
- You have a strong understanding of micro-services and related architectures
- You have experience working with bitcoin and lightning network nodes
- You have experience working with bitcoin at the protocol level (redeem/witness scripts, extended public keys (xpubs), PSBTs, signatures, etc.)
- You have experience contributing to open source projects
What We Offer
- Company paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k with employer match
- Employee stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Training & development opportunities
- Remote work flexibility