Block
Senior Software Engineer, Lightning Intelligence
Block, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Job DescriptionOur
Lightning Intelligence
team is part of our Bitcoin Platform team which sits within TBD's business. We pride ourselves on being the first publicly traded company to adopt Bitcoin's Lightning network here at Block. Over the years, Lightning usage has increased and we're doubling down on providing tools and services to augment sending and receiving Lightning payments. The Lightning Intelligence team is looking for engineers to help improve and expand Lightning usage at Block. One of our first projects is improving data about the lightning network and helping our partners make more informed decisions when they peer with other nodes and send payments.As a key member of our Lightning Intelligence team, you won’t just be tasked with software development; we seek a visionary committed to our values. Your role will be innovating and building a robust risk management service, and working closely with our product and compliance teams. You will play a key role in protecting our ecosystem, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while also balancing the privacy-preserving ethos of the Lightning Network.In this role you will:Design and build the first systems to help Bitcoin Platform to assess and act quickly on risks to our Lightning servicesIntegrate with third party data sources, to feed in additional attribution data to our risk engineWork closely with cross-functional stakeholders to gather and refine requirementsEnd to end own the life cycle of the systems that you will build, from design to release and beyondQualificationsYou have:6+ years of experience in developing large-scale platforms and backend systemsA strong motivation to contribute to a meaningful product that will fundamentally change the way people interact with financial institutionsExperience working with Bitcoin/Lightning or the desire to learnExperience working across teams and disciplinesExperience building backend systems at scale, involving modern eventing, database, and infrastructure toolingA pragmatic approach with a focus on deliveryAbility to excel in macro and micro elements of software designWillingness to contribute to the growth of those around youDemonstrated technical initiative and leadership on previous projectsTechnologies we use and teach:Go, Kotlin, JavaAWS, Terraform, Docker, KubernetesDatastores of all kinds (such as MySQL, DynamoDB, and Snowflake)Monitoring and visualization tools (such as Datadog and Looker)
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Lightning Intelligence
team is part of our Bitcoin Platform team which sits within TBD's business. We pride ourselves on being the first publicly traded company to adopt Bitcoin's Lightning network here at Block. Over the years, Lightning usage has increased and we're doubling down on providing tools and services to augment sending and receiving Lightning payments. The Lightning Intelligence team is looking for engineers to help improve and expand Lightning usage at Block. One of our first projects is improving data about the lightning network and helping our partners make more informed decisions when they peer with other nodes and send payments.As a key member of our Lightning Intelligence team, you won’t just be tasked with software development; we seek a visionary committed to our values. Your role will be innovating and building a robust risk management service, and working closely with our product and compliance teams. You will play a key role in protecting our ecosystem, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while also balancing the privacy-preserving ethos of the Lightning Network.In this role you will:Design and build the first systems to help Bitcoin Platform to assess and act quickly on risks to our Lightning servicesIntegrate with third party data sources, to feed in additional attribution data to our risk engineWork closely with cross-functional stakeholders to gather and refine requirementsEnd to end own the life cycle of the systems that you will build, from design to release and beyondQualificationsYou have:6+ years of experience in developing large-scale platforms and backend systemsA strong motivation to contribute to a meaningful product that will fundamentally change the way people interact with financial institutionsExperience working with Bitcoin/Lightning or the desire to learnExperience working across teams and disciplinesExperience building backend systems at scale, involving modern eventing, database, and infrastructure toolingA pragmatic approach with a focus on deliveryAbility to excel in macro and micro elements of software designWillingness to contribute to the growth of those around youDemonstrated technical initiative and leadership on previous projectsTechnologies we use and teach:Go, Kotlin, JavaAWS, Terraform, Docker, KubernetesDatastores of all kinds (such as MySQL, DynamoDB, and Snowflake)Monitoring and visualization tools (such as Datadog and Looker)
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