Backend Engineer
You will build distributed microservices that serve millions of customers around the world. You will design, build, and maintain advanced application services, collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and ship new features, and write testable, maintainable code for reliability. You will fix bugs, improve application performance, and write code that directly affects users and the broader crypto ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Build distributed microservices accessed by millions of global customers
- Design, build, and maintain advanced application services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability
- Fix bugs and improve application performance
- Write code that directly affects users and the broader crypto ecosystem
Requirements
- Background in computer science, including algorithms, data structures, and software design
- Proven experience leading development efforts and guiding engineering teams through end-to-end project delivery
- Extensive programming experience in backend technologies; Go(lang) is preferable
- Continuous improvement mindset
- BSc, MSc, or PhD in computer science or another technical discipline, or equivalent working experience
- Friendly, transparent, articulate, and driven to succeed
Benefits
- Remote but reachable work policy with flexibility to work from home or the office
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days of leave
- Private medical insurance
- Comprehensive retirement fund and essential risk benefits
- Access to Learnably and additional learning platforms
- 6 months of primary caregiver leave
- Paw-ternity leave
- Annual Inspiration Day, increasing with length of service
- Free lunch and snacks
- Zero fees up to a certain amount on Luno Instant Buy from day one
- Regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes