Senior Backend Engineer
Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains, investing in early-stage companies at the intersection of traditional finance and public blockchains.
About Castle Island Ventures
Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. Their mission is to support entrepreneurs building the infrastructure and application companies required to help transformative blockchain protocols reach their full potential. They describe their focus as 'accelerating frictionless finance,' investing in early-stage companies operating at the intersection of traditional finance and public blockchains. The firm also produces a podcast and newsletter covering topics in this space, and maintains a portfolio of companies whose open roles are listed on their jobs board.
Skills
About the Role
You will design and implement core components that scale the product and solve architectural challenges. You will own features from design through deployment and production support. You will collaborate with teammates to improve reliability and performance and contribute to coding standards.
Requirements
- Strong coding skills in C++ or Rust with 4+ years of experience.
- Ability to work independently and propose well thought out solutions.
- Excellent team player.
- Python experience is a plus.
- Experience with high scale distributed systems.
- Experience with blockchain or cryptography is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core components for scalability.
- Take end to end ownership of features from design to production.
- Collaborate with engineers to improve system reliability and performance.
- Participate in code reviews and help set engineering standards.
- Identify bottlenecks and propose robust architectural solutions.