About the client: It is a fintech company backing the R&D of multiple global exchange and custoday platforms. With high-frequency, low-latency and highly available trading engine running on distributed public cloud, millions of orders and trades are processed every day on a 7x24 basis. Located in Ottawa, the philosophy of this company is to design and deliver secure, scalable, self-healing and production-ready fintech solutions leveraging modern cloud-native technologies. It was founded in 2018 by a group of passionate software engineers. The team consists of experienced researchers and engineers, as well as established business partners.
Senior/Principal Software Engineer is a Full Time position in Ottawa, ON, Canada. 

​Responsibilities  

Core responsibilities
  • Design, develop and test new features and products. Be curious about application performance and motivated in improving performance and scalability.
  • Full practice of continuous integration and delivery. Write containerized applications that can be easily built with monitoring enabled.
  • Cloud-native staging and production environment with Kubernetes, Helm and beyond.
  • Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to build reliable system and success on every roadmap.
  • Work in Agile way and frequent collaboration with team members.
  • Work with a distributed global team. Collaborate with them and respond on production issues.
​Other duties
  • Interview and review potential candidates and provide feedbacks.
  • Help colleagues to resolve issues related to their work, such as but not limited to, setting up environment, debug collaboration, options and solution review.

Requirements​

  • The candidate must have a bachelor's degree or above in computer science or relevant major. The candidate should have at least 3 years of software development experience.
  • Familiar with Java, or familiar with at least one coding language and has strong interest in learning new technologies.
  • Self-motivated and proactively looking to solve problems.
  • Be curious to learn. Be able to do research spec independently or with minor supervision.
  • Good understanding on OOD/OOP and design patterns. Candidate should have some working knowledge on data structure and algorithm.
  • Familiar with REST API and JSON-RPC. Know the common practice of API development.
  • Experience on Relational database such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Candidate should also have some experiences on db optimization.
  • The candidate should care about the performance and scalability of applications. Experience on caching development with Redis is a plus.
  • Prior experiences with SQL development and optimization will be an asset.
  • Experience on major blockchains API integration (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.)
  • Experience on developing high-frequency, production-grade trading systems.
  • Experience on developing and deploying code in public cloud like AWS / GCP / Azure.
  • Familiar with solidity, solid and tracible experience on defi, smart contract will be an asset. 
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