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Senior Software Engineer

Boston Metro Area Central US East Coast US West Coast US Full Time


USDC will be launching on 6 new blockchains between September and October, bringing multi-chain access of USDC up to 15 chains.


Job Description

What you’ll be part of:

  • With the mission “To raise global economic prosperity through programmable internet commerce,” Circle was founded on the belief that blockchains and digital currency will rewire the global economic system, creating a fundamentally more open, inclusive, efficient and integrated world economy. We envision a global economy where people and businesses everywhere can more freely connect and transact with each other with new technologies for digital money. We believe such a system can raise prosperity for people and companies everywhere.

Your team is responsible for:

  • As a Software Engineer on the Circle Platform Services team, you will build and own scalable microservices that are responsible for reliable and secure APIs that transfer value & assets across all blockchain protocols (think Bitcoin and Ethereum, for example) as well as traditional banking protocols (think credit cards, bank transfers etc).

Responsibilities

You'll work on:

  • Challenging (and fun!) problems centered around digital currencies & their adoption. Did we mention that Circle launched a “programmable dollar” called USD Coin (or USDC)?

  • Collaborating with our Product and Engineering teams to design, develop, test and ship phenomenal Circle features

  • Building publicly accessible APIs that make it simple for developers to integrate with complex payment systems.

  • Integrating Platform Services with leading banks & financial technologies to allow an ever greater number of Circle customers access to fast, secure & low cost payment channels.

  • Writing the infrastructure to deliver great payment experiences, including data sources (SQL or NoSQL), messaging systems and APIs

  • Extending Circle’s in-house blockchain systems infrastructure to support the tokenization of the world.


Requirements

You'll bring to Circle (Not all required):

  • 4+ years of professional software development experience (including internships) in object oriented languages like Java and Go.

  • Experience with payment systems like credit cards and bank transfers

  • A broad understanding of API design and REST principles

  • Experience with Cloud Services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc)

  • Experience with SQL databases and designing schemas

  • Experience in the deployment of production-quality, scalable software

  • A focus on coding standards and code quality -- a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery

  • Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively

  • Self-starter, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision