Software Engineer, Financial Services
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 be responsible for designing, implementing and bringing to market software products for financial services customers. You'll work in a small, high-performing, fast-moving team building intuitive, easy-to-use applications while maintaining world-class security architecture. You will find creative solutions to logical and visual challenges, working closely with Product and Design teams to deliver new software systems. You'll own features completely end-to-end, acting as a builder rather than just a developer, leveraging AI tools to accelerate your velocity while acting as the gatekeeper of high quality and security for mission-critical code.
Requirements
- 5+ years working as a Full Stack developer.
- Experience with NodeJS, React, and TypeScript.
- Proven experience building and scaling large-scale, distributed systems where data consistency, high availability, and performance under heavy load are hard requirements.
- A proven track record as a Builder who can take a feature from an abstract idea through implementation to production ownership.
- Experience integrating modern AI development tools into workflow to boost velocity, combined with rigorous engineering discipline.
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering practices including clean code, architectural design patterns, comprehensive testing, and rigorous code reviews.
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- Expertise in the full software development life cycle.
- Previous experience building digital asset custody solutions or working at a digital asset-focused financial service business is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, scale, and support digital asset custody and financial software systems for financial services customers.
- Work directly with product and business teams to iteratively deliver software to production.
- Solve highly challenging technical problems and untangle complex, deep-production bugs in large-scale environments.
- Influence the technical direction for the financial services business.
- Contribute to team roadmap discussions and planning.
- Interact with cross-functional partners from other Fireblocks Departments.
- Manage identity and access management (IAM), user management, data security, and product-specific security measures.
- Work in coordination with cross-functional teams to ensure security measures are effectively integrated into business processes.
- Work closely with the SecOps team and SOC to ensure required security logs and events are available.