Staff Software Engineer: Dev Infra & Blockchain in Melbourne

We’re one of the world’s leading decentralized staking platforms. Join us on our mission to democratize access to financial opportunity.

About us:

• 14K+ Active stakers
• 98% Rewards to users

What we're building for:

• Immediate Impact: Our goal is to create technology that delivers value right now. As part of the pioneering wave of decentralized financial tools, we’re making them available and accessible to all.
• Cutting-edge tech: We’re bringing groundbreaking ideas to life across every layer of our product — from frontend development to smart contract architecture.
• Health: We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage to keep you at your best.
• Food: Delight in daily catered lunches and a variety of snacks throughout the week.
• Vacation: Enjoy flexible time off so you can recharge and stay at your best.
• Ownership: We offer significant equity alongside a competitive salary package. Receive monthly reimbursements for fitness, wellness activities, and gym memberships.
• Relaxation: Enjoy team events, offsites, and fun board game nights together.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with engineering, product and research teams to understand and document our technologies and product (e.g. open source software documentation, API doc, user education content).
• Design how existing and new content should be organized and presented to make content easier to understand and more discoverable.
• Measure documentation effectiveness to identify gaps for areas of improvement.
• Improve the content quality by obtaining both high-level and in-depth understanding of the product and technical details.
• Deliver content in various formats, including but not limited to written documentation, blog posts, public code repositories and video content.
• Ensure that management and project stakeholders are well-informed of project status, including conflicts and resolution plans.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience as a technical writer on complex products/technical projects (preferably in blockchain space).
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills in English language.
• Experience owning the end-to-end documentation creation and management process.
• Experience and proven ability in self-managing a high volume of tasks, priorities, and set yourself high standard of accuracy, proficiency and precision.
• Experience in collaborating with a wide range of people, teams and community members.
• Client-focused, partnering approach with both our business leaders and engineers to deliver a first-class experience for all stakeholders.

NICE TO HAVES:

• Prior experience in crypto/finance industry.
• Experienced as a technical writer on open source software.
• Programming or other past technical experience.

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and scale decentralized matching engine, risk system, and limit order book for blockchain protocol using CosmosSDK along with its surrounding backend systems.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in navigating tradeoffs (architecture, timeline, etc.).
• Ensure best practices within the engineering team through guidance on architecture, code reviews, performance, testing, efficiency, and other engineering excellence improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, researchers and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end-to-end.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 8+ years experience working as a backend software engineer.
• Experience with trading system development at a mid/high frequency firm writing code to communicate with exchanges (i.e. order entry and low latency feed handlers).
• And/or experience working on exchange infrastructure, dealing with low latency order intake, risk checks, and matching.
• Strong experience in a systems programming language and network programming knowledge.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures, excellent coding skills, strong CS fundamentals, and strong debugging capabilities.
• Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.

Senior Product Designer - Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the end-to-end design process, from ideation and prototyping to user testing and final implementation, ensuring a seamless and delightful user journey.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and other teams to design best-in-class experiences for our users.
• Design for our web, iOS, and Android platforms.
• Contribute to our design system and brand identity.
• Ensure the products we ship are consistent with our design and branding standards.
• Perform user research and use data to develop the right product strategy and solutions that delight our customers.
• Design marketing materials and partner with external contact design resources.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years of UX, UI, or product design experience.
• Strong product sensibility.
• Experience developing wireframes and prototypes.
• Proficiency with Figma.
• Proven experience building excellent consumer-facing mobile and web products.
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates excellence and passion for product design.
• You are an open-minded and accountable individual, who respects collaboration.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• Bachelor's degree in a related design major or equivalent work experience.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Interest in Crypto and or Blockchain technologies.
• Interest in FinTech.
• Interest in trading.

Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints.
• Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the Echoyield protocol.
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders.
• Write open source TypeScript & Python clients that allow users to interact directly with our on-chain smart contracts.
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.
• Architect performant and reliable backend systems.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years experience working as a full-time developer.
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a good understanding of CS fundamentals.
• You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've worked on high quality products in the finance or security space.
• Interest in fullstack development. Experience building Web Services, SQL, CSS, React, Redux.
• You have a strong interest in decentralized finance.
• You have experience building blockchain applications / smart contracts.
• CS Degree or equivalent experience.

Software Engineer - Frontend - Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints.
• Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the Echoyield protocol.
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders.
• Write open source TypeScript & Python clients that allow users to interact directly with our on-chain smart contracts.
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.

REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 2+ years experience working as a full-time developer (for new graduates, we require internship experience from a top tech company).
• You have a depth of technical experience and have demonstrated excellence through previous work.
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code.
• You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and 3 years of experience or alternatively, a Master’s degree in same and 1 year of experience.

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've worked on high-quality products in the finance or security space.
• You have experience building blockchain applications / smart contracts.

Staff Software Engineer - Melbourne, Australia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints.
• Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the Echoyield protocol.
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders.
• Architect performant and reliable backend systems.
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
• Mentor and develop other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years experience working as a full-time developer.
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
• You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.

NICE TO HAVES:

• You've worked on high quality products in the finance or security space.
• You have experience building & operating complex, highly reliable distributed systems involving microservices and APIs.
• An interest in full-stack development. Experience building and architecting backend Web Services, as well as Web or Mobile applications.
• You have a strong interest in decentralized finance.
• You have experience building blockchain applications, or smart contracts.
• You have experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.