Staff Engineer - Exchange

What is the role about?

As a Staff Engineer, you have an impact on technical decisions, as well as a variety of projects and initiatives at Bitvavo. In this role, you are part of the Exchange team whose objective is to increase trading volumes, trading flows, and modes that allow users to buy and sell their favorite digital currencies on our platform. Together with our Engineering Managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers, you strive to improve our existing architecture whilst mentoring and building strong relationships with our Senior Engineers.

Do you have an affinity for Crypto? Our team is looking for self-driven, talented team players who can help make digital assets available for everyone!

How will you make an impact?

• Being part of the Exchange domain and leading technology initiatives from start to finish
• Being responsible for designing, architecting, developing and implementing the strategic vision and solution for our future scalable data-driven trading activities
• Defining best practices, processes and coding standards that fuel innovative ideas for emerging business needs and demands
• Mentoring and inspiring engineers on technical decisions and initiative
• Raising the bar on practices and standards while demonstrating leadership

How will you be successful?

• 7+ years of experience in a similar role within the Financial Services industry
• Experience with AWS,TypeScript, JavaScript and NodeJS (we are switching to Kotlin)
• Experience with event-driven microservices (Kafka)
• Distributed systems
• Knowledge of algorithm complexity and framework structures
• High level/high performance systems, low latency design
• Firm understanding of programming design patterns and principles
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming