Backend Developer - Node.js

Sf Bitcoin Devs - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Los Angeles, CA

About the position

We are seeking a full-time backend engineer to join our team, focusing on building, scaling, and optimizing our infrastructure while developing new services for the Bitcoin and Lightning ecosystem. This role is ideal for those looking to shape the future of the Lightning and Bitcoin space as part of a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership over new applications and their technical direction.
• Build and maintain critical infrastructure for our platform and additional services.
• Collaborate with engineers following best practices, code reviews, testing and quality assurance.
• Help us scale to stay ahead of the exponential growth of the Lightning Network.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience developing backend applications.
• Deep understanding of GraphQL APIs, NodeJS and NestJS.
• Experience using Javascript + Typescript.
• Experience working with SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (Memgraph, Typesense) databases.
• Experience with an event-driven architecture using RabbitMQ, SQS and Kafka.
• Experience with in-memory data stores such as Redis.
• Experience containerizing applications with Docker following best practices.
• Experience using AWS products to deploy applications in a secure, reliable and maintainable way (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, ECS, EKS).
• Experience in agile software development, Git, testing, maintaining production code.
• No degree needed, just enormous passion for software development.

Nice-to-haves

• Huge plus if you have created, maintained and/or supported open source software.
• Experience in monitoring applications and infrastructure using Datadog and Cloudwatch.
• Experience in search engine functionality.
• Knowledge about the Lightning Network and Bitcoin.
• Knowledge in discrete optimization techniques, deep learning, simulation.
• Knowledge in processing big amounts of data with tools such as Mapreduce, Airflow, Spark.
• Knowledge about graph theory.