Software Engineer, Kaiko
Cryptocurrency market data provider
Job no longer available
Cryptocurrency market data provider
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the foundation of the digital finance economy by serving as a single source for market information.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience as a Software/DevOps Engineer
- Knowledgeable about data ingestion pipelines and massive data querying
- Worked with, in no particular order: microservices architecture, infrastructure as a code, self-managed services (eg. deploy and maintain our own databases), distributed services, server-side development, etc
- You’ll notice that we don’t have any “hard” requirements in terms of development platforms or technologies: this is because we are primarily interested in people capable of adapting to an ever changing landscape of technical requirements, who learn fast and are not afraid to constantly push our technical boundaries
- In short, we are looking for someone able to spot early on that spending 10 days to migrate data to a more efficient schema is the better solution compared to scaling out a database cluster in a matter of minutes if we are looking to improve performance in the long term
Desirable
- Experience with data scraping over HTTP, WebSocket, and/or FIX Protocol
- Experience developing financial product methodologies for indices, reference rates, and exchange rates
- Knowledgeable about the technicalities of financial market data, such as the difference between: calls, puts, straddles, different types of bonds, swaps, CFD, CDS, options, futures, etc
What the job involves
- You will be joining a fast-paced engineering team made up of people with significant experience working with terabytes of data
- You will be able to work autonomously as an equally trusted member of the team
- Addressing high availability problems: cross-region data replication, disaster recovery, etc
- Addressing “big data” problems: 200+ millions of messages/day, 160B data points since 2010
- Improving our development workflow, continuous integration, continuous delivery and in a broader sense our team practices
- Expanding our platform’s observability through monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing
- Design, develop and deploy scalable and observable backend microservices
- Reflect on our storage, querying and aggregation capabilities, as well as the technologies required to meet our objectives
- Work hand-in-hand with the business team on developing new features, addressing issues and extending the platform
Application process
- Call with the People team (20 mins)
- Interview with the Hiring Manager (45 mins)
- Cross team interviews with 2-3 team members (30 min)
- Interview with the CTO (30 mins)
- Offer, reference check
Our take
As cryptocurrency has become increasingly mainstream, the demand for a proper crypto data infrastructure has also grown. Kaiko builds custom crypto data plans for enterprises, providing the necessary data layer for institutions to utilise digital assets effectively.
Founded in 2014, Kaiko has moved swiftly to form key partnerships in the market infrastructure and data space, for example its 2022 collaboration with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). This has given Kaiko investors access to data centres around the world while at the same time enhancing access to crypto data feeds for investors and traders on the ICE network. What's more, the company now serves some of crypto's most high-profile players, such as CoinShares and Paxos.
Kaiko has set its sights on further developing its infrastructure, with an especial focus on expanding its connectivity solution. This will allow the company to remain agile and competitive in the years to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$53m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82.6m
Company benefits
- 21 paid holidays per year
- 401K plan
- The hardware of your choice
- Great health insurance
- Remote-friendly
- Contribution to your monthly gym subscription
- Multiple team events (annual retreat, casual drinks, etc.)
- An entrepreneurial environment with a lot of autonomy and responsibilities
- Staff surprises!
Company values
- GRIT: We work with perseverance and passion to reach our goals
- AUTHENTICITY: Come as you are and grow into who you want to be
- TRUST: We own our work and have both our clients and colleagues backs
- THOUGHTFULNESS: We care and respect each other while embracing our differences
- OWNERSHIP: We are a team of go-getters and pride ourselves on our ability to take initiative
- EXCELLENCE: We are committed to delivering high standards to our colleagues and clients
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Leadership
Ambre Soubiran
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked in strategy and financial solutions at HSBC before joining Kaiko in 2016. Previously co-founded By Toan in 2009.
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