Backend Staff Engineer, Platform

About the team:

The Platform Services Team at Fireblocks plays a crucial role in shaping the product and helping customers to independently succeed and grow with Fireblocks, by enabling Fireblocks business units to quickly develop new, resilient high-quality fit-to-scale business experiences, and by providing users a best-in-class experience managing their environment in order to succeed in their business goals.

What You'll Do:

• Lead technical projects at scale and be a focal point for the team in backend development.
• Tackle scalability challenges end to end.
• Maintaining and enhancing platform services essential for Fireblocks teams.
• Advocating for, and enforcing standards and best practices.
• Leading and educating through knowledge sharing via documentation, knowledge-base articles, blogs, forums and presentations.
• Addressing complex production issues and developing long-term solutions.
• Contributing to the engineering and standardization of our platform architecture.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the targeted availability, reliability, scalability, throughput and performance of our platform.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience working as a backend engineer with a focus on platform development.
• Proficiency in NodeJS and Typescript, with a strong understanding of their respective ecosystems.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, low-latency and reliable platform components in production environment, while serving heavy-traffic requests.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working with asynchronous flows to scale, broad experience with message brokers such as: AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Experience with Redis.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Experience with blockchain or cryptocurrency - Advantage.