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Bullish Global

Senior Engineer

Bullish Global, New York, New York, us, 10261


Focused on developing products and services for the digital assets sector, Bullish has rewired the traditional exchange to benefit asset holders, enable traders and increase market integrity. Supported by the group’s treasury, Bullish’s new breed of exchange combines deep liquidity, automated market making and industry-leading security and compliance to increase the accessibility of digital assets for investors. Bullish exchange is operated by Bullish (GI) Limited and is fully regulated in Gibraltar.

Mission:

To make trading with digital assets more rewarding and secure.

Vision:

To be the most innovative, respected, and trusted leader in crypto.

Reports to:

Director, Engineering

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Bullish CoinDesk Engineering group in our Financial Services organization and to help lead back-end development of services, frameworks, and tools critical to the development and operation of CoinDesk Indices, CoinDesk Media, and CoinDesk Events products. Bullish is a cutting-edge cryptocurrency exchange and financial services project that is built leveraging a blockchain platform which is also maintained and improved within the organization.

A successful applicant for this role will have experience designing and building back-end systems and APIs that are critical to the success of high-performance and security-sensitive products and services, ideally within the financial services industry. This is a hands-on technical development role, but as a Senior Engineer they would also be expected to demonstrate leadership skills and an ability and willingness to mentor team members in addition to possessing technical proficiency.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain microservices, frameworks, and tools that are developed in Node.js, Python, and related technologies.

Closely collaborate with other development teams within the organization to identify pain points, common needs and ways to improve their development process and the overall reliability of the systems we build.

Identify design flaws and problems proactively and devise a plan to execute and solve these problems.

Promote strong engineering standards and principles within a multidisciplinary team environment.

Provide mentorship and guidance to team members.

Maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent level of professional experience.

5+ years of software development experience, preferably in an environment where latency and throughput are important factors (e.g. finance industry).

Background working with cloud providers such as GCP and AWS.

Experience or knowledge of IaC (infrastructure as code) tooling (e.g. Terraform/CDK/Pulumi).

Proficiency in Node.js and frameworks like Express.

Well versed with Python 3.8+.

Comfortable with Postgres & Redis or similar solutions.

Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Pytest, TestContainers).

Good knowledge of API development, RESTful web services, and API gateways.

Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git) and trunk based development.

Experience with running containers in local and production environments (Docker/Kubernetes).

Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD (e.g. Buildkite/Github Actions).

Preferred:

Experience with tooling used to deploy containers into Kubernetes (Helm).

Experience with implementing monitoring and observability platforms within a microservices environment.

Designing high availability and fault tolerant systems.

As a candidate you:

Are passionate about software development and learning.

Carry a positive attitude towards new challenges and complex work.

Are flexible - we work in a constantly changing crypto environment and we need to be flexible as the landscape changes.

Are a team player - someone who wants to help build a better team and grow along with their teammates as we solve complex problems.

Annual base salary:US$121,000 to US$223,000

Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are fast evolving and striving towards being a globally-diverse community. With integrity at our core, our success is driven by a talented team of individuals and the different perspectives they are encouraged to bring to work every day.

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