Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field., 1 year of experience in software development, particularly with backend and frontend programming languages., Proficiency in Typescript, Python, and GitHub., Experience with technical incident responsiveness and Visual Studio Code tooling..

Key responsibilities:

Lead the design and architecture of financial technology projects on blockchain.

Take ownership of the software development life cycle, ensuring code reliability and performance.

Implement security measures to protect financial transactions and user data.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of software engineers.

Job description

Founded by two ex-Coinbase employees and backed by top investors including Andreesen Horowitz, Coinbase, IDEO, and Kindred Ventures, Goldfinch is a private credit platform that is using the blockchain to empower financial inclusion and investor access around the world.

Our vision is to connect the world’s capital to the world’s growth by building a global cashflow marketplace, enabling anyone to bring their earning potential on-chain and access funding from anyone in the world. Since announcing the protocol in January 2021, Goldfinch has issued over $120M of loans to wholesale lenders who have in turn helped Goldfinch reach +2M end-borrowers with zero losses. Goldfinch has scaled to four continents, covering +20 different countries, and we’re just getting started.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Warbler Labs, you will be responsible — along with our world-class engineering team — for building impenetrable smart contracts and delightful web products for our customers to use. We ruthlessly cut scope and follow an agile methodology. We work to create a high trust, empathetic team environment with high standards of excellence and integrity.

This role is full time, preferably located in the Bay Area. Open to remote for the right candidate.

Duties:

Lead the design and architecture of innovative financial technology and decentralized finance projects on blockchain

Take ownership of the software development life cycle, ensuring the reliability, performance, and maintainability of the codebase for applications

Implement robust security measures and best practices to safeguard financial transactions and user data in compliance with industry standards and regulations

Provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers, guiding them in the development of complex solutions and mentor team members on coding standards, software architecture, and best practice

Conduct regular security assessments, identify vulnerabilities, and implement remediation strategies to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of financial and user information

Conduct regular code reviews, implement best practices, and apply optimization techniques to enhance the overall efficiency and security of the systems.

Who You'll Be Working With:

Current team is a mix of tech and finance veterans, with deep crypto and emerging market lending experience from some of the best companies in the world, including Coinbase, Airbnb, Morgan Stanley, Yelp, Goldman Sachs, Branch, Medium, Stratos, and Twilio.

We're an entrepreneurial bunch. A large percentage of the team has started their own company in the past.

Position requires:

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Software Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupations.

Must possess at least 1 year of experience in all of the following: Backend and frontend programming languages; Typescript programming language; Experience with technical Incident responsiveness; Visual Studio Code tooling; GitHub database; and Python programming language.

Benefits / Perks:

All roles include meaningful equity and tokens

Healthcare, dental, vision

Occasional free lunch

Maternal / Paternal leave

Telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S. permitted.

We aim to hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds - not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. People from all across the globe and all walks of life participate in our protocol, and we'd like our team to reflect that. If you share our interest in DeFi and our passion for promoting financial inclusion, we'd love to have you on the team.

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