\n\nFigment is the world’s leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. We provide the most comprehensive staking solution for our over 200+ institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders to earn rewards on their crypto assets. These clients rely on Figment’s institutional staking service including rewards optimization, rapid API development, rewards reporting, partner integrations, governance, and slashing protection. Figment is backed by industry experts, financial institutions and our global team across twenty three countries. This all leads to our mission to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web3 ecosystem.\n\nWe are a growth stage technology company – looking for people who are builders and doers. People who are comfortable plotting their course through ambiguity and uncertainty to drive impact and who are excited to work in new ways and empower a generative company culture.\nAbout this Role\n\nWe are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help grow our APIs team. The team’s mission is to implement required business logic and APIs that allow users to stake and unstake their tokens on a variety of networks. Figment offers various staking/unstaking products on the Ethereum network and a portion of our team’s responsibility lies in developing, understanding, and integrating with smart contracts on Ethereum.\n\nWe are looking for a seasoned principal engineer with a strong Ruby on Rails background and Solidity development experience. In this role, you will be responsible for different projects, leading or collaborating with other engineers on the team, participating in architectural decisions, and communicating your ideas with Product and Engineering managers.\n\nThis is a full-time remote position, for candidates in North American time zones (+1/-1). If you enjoy working on a dynamic and collaborative team with lots of opportunities to learn and drive impactful business outcomes, then this role may be a good fit for you. Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects while demonstrating a strong sense of ownership.\nWhat you will be doing\n\n\n* Full technical accountability for products & processes.\n\n* Leading initiatives end-to-end through technical design, technical roadmap, implementation, and testing.\n\n* Contributing code as a Principal-level IC, demonstrating best practices, and setting standards for the rest of the team.\n\n* Working closely with Product managers to clarify requirements, communicate design solutions, and set expectations.\n\n* Work closely with our Security team to deliver the most secure software solutions we can.\n\n* Collaborate with cross-functional team members on all aspects of product development.\n\n* Lead and refine the team’s software development processes.\n\n* Demonstrate technical expertise in multiple domains and act as a mentor to others on the team.\n\n\n\nWhat you will bring to the team\n\n\n* Experience as a principal engineer on a team of more than 3 developers\n\n* Strong Rails background and track record of successful Rails projects\n\n* In-depth understanding of systems design and multi-service architecture\n\n* At least one year of experience with smart contract development and defi protocols\n\n* Strong communication and problem-solving skills\n\n* Ability to own complete features and systems end-to-end - conception, breakdown, implementation, deployment\n\n* Familiar with data storage solutions (SQL/Redis/Data warehousing)\n\n* Passion to learn new technologies quickly and enjoy learning new things\n\n* Strong bias towards simplicity and maintainability\n\n* Results-oriented individual with a high EQ\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of Figment’s core principles is “Making the Invisible Visible” - ensuring transparency and information sharing in all communication. Figment is committed to transparency regarding pay, benefits, and other compensation types for all internal roles as well as all roles being hired for.\n\nBase Salary: The CAD base salary range for this position is CAD $200,000 - $220,000. The US base salary range for this position is USD $200,000 - $220,000. This range reflects base salary only, and does not include additional compensation or benefits. For candidates in other countries, the pay range will be disclosed upon your first interview with Figment (being a globally remote company, the list of salary ranges would simply be too long to note here!). The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum range for a new hire across all Canada or the US. A candidate’s specific pay within the range will be determined by various factors including job-related skills, relevant education, and training.\n\nBenefits: All employees of Figment receive the following competitive benefits. For candidates beyond Canada and the US, benefits will be outlined during your first interview with Figment.\n\n\n* 100% remote-first environment, with co-working spaces in our employee “hubs” across the globe for those who enjoy a hybrid model\n\n* 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days\n\n* Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one\n\n* Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements \n\n* A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in\n\n* Monthly Wifi reimbursement\n\n* A yearly Learning & Development budget\n\n* 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada)\n\n* Stock Options in the company\n\n* Competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually - we believe that the company’s success should be shared with our employees often\n\n\n* For roles listed within the Sales Department, there is instead a competitive commissions structure which will be outlined during your first interview with Figment\n\n\n\n\n\n* Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!\n\n* A culture of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high-growth environment\n\n\n\n\n\nSee here for Figment's Privacy Policy and California Employee Privacy Policy.\n\n\nFigment is a remote-first company operating with a global footprint across 23 countries. Are you interested in helping us build the future of digital assets?\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Web3, Defi, Crypto, Ruby, API, Sales and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nWe’re a highly skilled team of software engineers who are building an awesome product and moving fast. We value people who take initiatives, and empower everyone at Klue to make a real change in the product or processes. \n\n\nWe are looking for Backend Engineers to work with our team to deliver high quality products in the most efficient way.\n\n\n💡FAQ \n\n\nQ: Klue who?\nA: We’re Klue and from a technical perspective, Klue’s mission is to descale huge amounts of data to the human level, so people can process it and make use of it. Klue is that trusted intermediary, right now it’s proven for sales enablement, but tomorrow it’s all teams enablement.\n\n\nQ: What level of experience are we looking for?\nA: Right now we are looking for senior level experienced Back-End Engineers. \n\n\nQ: What is our development team working on?\nA: As part of our backend team, we are concerned with data storage and retrieval and the infrastructure to enable that. Here’s what our development team is working on and the opportunity for motivated Software Engineers to dig into, alongside us:\n- Big Data - lots of data \n- Ingesting thousands of news articles, web pages, marketing and sales data points per day. The challenge is indexing them for a long period of time and making them searchable and ready for different analysis.\n- Expanding our Rails REST API and offering public APIs to enable integrations.\n- Architect infrastructure for a scalable, resilient and robust service. We are migrating from a monolith architecture to K8S-hosted microservices. \n\n\nQ: What is our current tech stack?\nA: Python (Flask), Ruby (Rails), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, GCP, AWS, Tensorflow, Keras, Docker, Kubernetes.\nWe code review all changes, continuously integrate, pay down technical debt, and aim for high automated test coverage. We love microservices and, while we mostly use Python, Ruby, Google Cloud Platform, Linux, JavaScript, and React, new services can be built using whatever tools make sense to get the job done and support our game-changing innovation.\n\n\nQ: Are you HYBRID FRIENDLY 🤩 ?\nA: YES! Our hub is in Vancouver, BC, and most of our engineering is located in PST. Ideally, this role would be located in a Canadian timezone. We currently have team members in a couple of other hubs across Canada (Toronto & Winnipeg) and other countries.\n\n\n\nQ: What skills do you bring? \n* Expertise in at least one of the general programming languages like Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Javascript, or similar.\n* Expertise in relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL\n* Experience in designing REST APIs\n* Experience using NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch or MongoDB is a plus\n* Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP is a plus\n* Bonus if you have Data Engineering interest and experience; ETL Pipelines, Snowplow, Snowflake, Big Query Redshift, Airflow, or equivalent.\n\n\n\nQ: What motivates our current team right now?\n* The type of work. Challenging, stimulating and meaningful work. New and relevant tech stack. We know engineers/developers especially want to work on hard technical and innovative problems.\n* The inspiration from skilled and proven leaders.\n* Entrepreneurial fingerprints on what will be a future billion dollar company anchored in Canada.\n* Culture, team, and the work environment.\n* High degree of autonomy and accountability.\n* High degrees of transparency and high quality communication.\n\n\n\nQ: What are the people at Klue like?\n* Builders\n* Intellectually Curious\n* Ambitious\n* Objective Oriented\n* Check us out!\n\n\n\nQ: What about total compensation & benefits?\n* Benefits. We currently have extended health benefits starting on your 1st day.\n* Time off. Take what you need. We want the team to prioritize wellness and avoid burnout. Vacation usually falls into 3 categories: recharging, life-event, & keeping a work-life balance. Just ensure the required work gets done and clear it with your team in advance. You need to take at least two weeks off every year. The average Klue team member takes 2-4 weeks of PTO per year.\n\n\n\n\n$140,000 - $175,000 a yearWe gather compensation benchmarking data across the BC & Canadian Tech Industry and use that data to build a range for our current team and future talent. Your exact salary is determined by experience level, skill, capabilities, and internal pay parity.\nIf you feel like this role is a great fit and have questions about comp, get in touch and we’re happy to discuss further. There is always an ongoing conversation around compensation.\n\n\n⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLastly, we take potential into consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above. If you know you have what it takes, even if that’s different from what we’ve described, be sure to explain why in your application. Reach out and let’s see if there is a home here for you now or in the future.\n\n\nWe’ve made a commitment to support and contribute to a diverse environment; on our teams and in our community. We’re early in our journey; we've started employee led resource groups, committed to Pay Up For Progress, and use success profiles for roles instead of 'years of experience'. We continue to scale our efforts as Klue grows. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and have dedicated that commitment to our current and future #kluecrew. During the interview process, please let us know if there is anything we need to make more accessible or accommodate to support you to be successful.\n\n\nAll interviews will be conducted via video calls. We work in a hybrid model of WFH (remote) and in-office. We’re excited to meet you and in the meantime, get to know us:\n\n\n 🌈 Pay Up For Progress & 50 - 30 Challenge & Klue Blog\n✅✅ Win-Loss Acquisition (2023)\n🅰️ Series A (2020)\n🐅 Series B (2021)\n🏆 Culture, culture, culture! \n🎧 Winning as Women & Competitive Enablement Show\n🔍 Glassdoor\n🐝 About Us\n🐥 Twitter\n📸 Instagram\n☕️ LinkedIn\n🦄 Wellfound (AngelList)  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Video, Education, Cloud, NoSQL, Ruby, API, Senior, Marketing, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, Canada