Platform Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

AlphaVerse is seeking a Platform Backend Software Engineer to contribute to their mid-frequency trading and crowdsourcing platform. The engineer will play a key role in developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure for all AlphaVerse products. This role requires a proactive individual with a passion for building products from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

• Implement, extend, and maintain platform features
• Write clean, well-documented code with appropriate test coverage
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging production issues
• Be on-call on a rotating basis
• Contribute to technical documentation and internal knowledge base
• Participate in team meetings and design discussions to gain system understanding
• Take ownership of smaller projects and features from design to deployment

Requirements:

• Able to thrive in the crucible of an extremely fast-paced, demanding start-up like environment
• Able to bear immense responsibility for high-stakes, large-scale production infrastructure
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design
• High proficiency in Python with a strong understanding of how it works at the lower level
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful services
• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Datastore, Cloud Storage
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or an equivalent SQL database)
• Experience with Cython/C/C++in a performance sensitive environment is a plus