Backend Engineer
Bastion- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
Candidates should possess 5+ years of professional software development experience, strong expertise in JavaScript (React, Node.js), experience building APIs (REST, WebSockets) and microservices, a solid understanding of scalable and secure system design, and familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail are also required.
The Senior Front-End Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend and frontend systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand compliance requirements and business processes, developing and testing software to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and security, monitoring and analyzing data to identify potential compliance issues, providing technical support and troubleshooting for compliance software, keeping up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in compliance software development, maintaining compliance software documentation and training materials for end users, writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code (JavaScript, React, Node.js), optimizing systems for performance and security, contributing to architectural decisions and technical strategies, and participating in code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring coding standards.
Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform
BitMEX is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform that focuses on Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and XRP. It allows traders to leverage their positions, offering up to 100x leverage on Bitcoin contracts and varying leverage on other cryptocurrencies. Users can trade perpetual contracts, which do not expire, enabling them to hold positions indefinitely as long as they meet margin requirements. BitMEX serves a wide range of clients, from individual retail traders to institutional investors, and generates revenue through trading fees on transactions. The platform is recognized for its strong security measures that protect users' funds and data, and it also offers a Testnet for users to practice trading strategies without financial risk. Additionally, BitMEX provides a robust API for traders to create custom trading tools and access real-time data.