Paxos is hiring a
Remote Staff Software Engineer Regulatory Core
\nAbout Paxos\n\nPaxos is on a mission to enable the movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. Todayโs financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky - supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So weโre rebuilding it. \n\nAs a regulated blockchain infrastructure company, we use technology to tokenize, custody, trade, and settle assets for enterprise clients like PayPal, Bank of America, and Interactive Brokers. Paxos is a top-funded blockchain company, with more than $500 million in total funding from leading investors like OakHC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal Ventures, and Declaration Partners. Together, we empower todayโs financial leaders to build a more open, trusted economy.\n\nAbout the team\n\nWe're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our growing Regulatory Core Engineering team. We're a key contributor to the growth of Paxos, responsible for building the platform to address our customerโs regulatory, compliance and risk concerns - helping bring their Paxos-based products to market faster and easier.\n\n\nAs a Staff Engineer youโll get to: \n\n\n* Design and build the platform to address critical compliance and regulatory challenges of building digital asset products - KYC, Onboarding, AML and risk management.\n\n* Taking ownership of design, coding, testing and deployment of key proprietary software components of our tokenized commodities platforms.\n\n* Scale transaction processing systems to service millions of customers.\n\n* Develop distributed microservices in Go.\n\n* Search for the truth in product conceptualization and development, ensuring designs and implementations are fully aligned with the company mission and product goals.\n\n* Immerse yourself in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency for enterprises and investors, our regulation-first approach, and more!\n\n* Learn more about being a Staff Engineer at Paxos\n\n\n\n\nYour experience should include:\n\n\n* 8+ years of software development experience, including at least one of the following: Golang, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++, Python.\n\n* 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining distributed systems.\n\n* Strong computer science and programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms).\n\n\n\n\nYou might also have: \n\n\n* Mastery of core engineering concepts including data structures, design best practices, run-time optimizations, and algorithmic complexity.\n\n* Solid understanding of concepts like load balancing, HA/failover, ingress, inter-service communications in a microservices style cluster, idempotence, ACID, guaranteed delivery, etc.\n\n* Technical expert in at least one domain like Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, or AWS.\n\n* Can understand and articulate the architecture of an entire system, including the technical trade-offs between different design implementations of high performance, low latency order state management.\n\n* Familiar with online web application architectures and infrastructures, including clustering (Kubernetes), containerizing (Docker), message queuing (MQ / Kafka), telemetry/instrumentation (Prometheus/Grafana), etc.\n\n* Familiar with APIs / Connectivity technologies, REST API or sockets, TCP, UDP, multicast.\n\n* Eager to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse multi-disciplinary team, collaborating effectively with stakeholders.\n\n* Constantly seeks to learn new technologies, innovate and discover better ways to solve engineering challenges of high performance trading systems and APIs, including performance tuning, latency optimizations and constant new development of APIs\n\n\n\n\nWhat youโll love about Paxos:\n\nPaxos has consistently been recognized on the Forbes Fintech 50, CB Insights Blockchain 50 and Built Inโs โBest Places to Workโ lists. Paxonians have significant ownership and impact on our business, as well as benefits like company equity, health insurance, family leave, a quarterly stipend for development, a stipend for home office setup and unlimited PTO. From team product demos and virtual lounge and learns to care packages and an active Slack #shoutouts channel, there are countless opportunities to connect and make your mark. Help us continue to build a new, open financial system from one of our three offices or right from your home!\n\nLearn more: \n\nInterested in learning how we build and scale stablecoins? Join us for a live panel and Q&A on September 26 at 4:00 pm ET. Register here to secure your spot!\n\nCompany\n\n\nWeb 3.0 Is Still the Place to Be\n\nA Conversation with Paxos Product Leaders\n\n\nPaxos Raises $300M in Series D Funding at 2.4B Valuation \n\n\n\n\n\nCustomers\n\n\nPaxos & PayPal Bring Crypto to Millions of Users\n\nMercado Libre Reaches 1M+ Users in 60 Days With Paxos\n\nPaxos Was Built to Protect its Customers\n\n\n\n\nMedia\n\n\nCNBC Crypto World Interviews Paxos CEO on USDP stablecoin\n\nPaxos CEO Charles Cascarillaโs Perspectives on the Current State of the Global Economy\n\nYahoo Finance Interviews Paxos CEO on Testimony to U.S. Congress and Stablecoin Infrastructure\n\n\n\n\n \n\nOur Paxos team is made up of passionate people from all over the world with different perspectives and experiences. If this opportunity excites you, but your experience doesnโt perfectly match the descriptionโฆapply! Unique voices help us build a more transparent and open economy.\n\n \n\n#LI-XX1\n\n#LI-remote\n\nPaxos offers a competitive total compensation and benefits package, including equity. Actual salary within that range is dependent upon the individualโs skills, experience and qualifications.\nExpected range for the salary component for candidates located within the United States is:\n\n$265,000โ$312,000 USD\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Crypto, Testing, Finance, API and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n
$62,500 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide