Back End Developer (Node.js)

Full Time  — Contract to hire : REMOTE

Unbanked is a global fintech platform built on blockchain. Unbanked’s platform connects traditional enterprise, fintech, banking, systems with blockchain infrastructure giving real world utility to digital assets. Our products enable instant remittance and the transfer of value on blockchain rails in a compliant and regulated environment.

We’re looking for a talented Back End developer with a range of skills to help us build the future of crypto payments. Our core consumer facing product, BlockCard, is a crypto debit card available in the US. We have built a white-label platform for easily onboarding partners to run their own cryptocurrency debit card programs using our technology. Existing partners include the likes of Litecoin and Paxful.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for helping our team build and maintain BlockCard. You’ll get the chance to work across a variety of technologies, but our backend is primarily written in Node.js. As much of our team works remotely, we look for candidates with strong communication and problem solving skills. 

We expect you to be able to take end-to-end ownership of product features assigned to you. You should be well versed in debugging and troubleshooting user reported errors as well as providing fixes. Aside from developing new features, you will be responsible for helping improve the underlying application architecture in terms of performance, caching, security, uptime, and error handling. You should be comfortable operating under a CI/CD environment.

 

REQUIREMENTS

• A strong background in writing Node.js applications (i.e. Express.js)
• A background in CS: algorithms, data structures, system design, and database design
• A history of unit testing or behavior driven development experience
• A strong interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies (are you hodling?)

 

EXPERIENCE

We favor candidates with experience in several of the following languages and frameworks:

• Express.js (Node.js)
• Laravel (PHP)
• Go
• Vue.js
• React
• React Native

 

Nice to haves:

• Experience working with highly available application architectures
• Experience working with continuous integration and/or automated build tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or TravisCI
• API design experience
• DevOps or Linux systems administration experience
• Cloud management experience (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Redis experience
• MySQL and/or Postgres experience
• Socket.IO (WebSockets) experience
• Algorithmic trading experience

 

More information at: unbanked.com 

At Unbanked, we value diversity and always employ, retain, promote, and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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