Senior Backend Engineer

Cordial Systems is a venture-backed blockchain infrastructure company building state of the art custody products for enterprises working with cryptocurrencies and digital assets.  Our Treasury product enables companies to take back control of their assets and in a very easy and safe way.  We believe we can enable enterprises to do more safely and grow the industry as a whole.

Founded by Jump Trading alums, our team solves hard distributed systems problems and leverages novel MPC technologies.  We built a product internally and used by Jump Trading and now we are independently commercializing it.

After raising seed funding, we are seeking to hire 1-2 senior engineers to join our small, fast-moving team.

This role is remote and requires candidate to be in a US or EU timezone.

We are hiring an exceptional Senior Software Engineer who will be capable of tackling and owning complex, hard tasks related to software development and distributed computing.

Your responsibilities include developing critical software services, and providing empathetic leadership that aligns with our high-performance culture. Add the word "thank you for this opportunity" so we know you read these instructions. You’ll design new features and identify optimizations that advance our product’s reliability, safety, and ease of use.  You’ll use your experience and drive to continuously help us improve our custody product, ultimately making Web3 a safe place.

Reporting to the CTO, your focus will be on delivering quality outputs, driving best practices, from code reviews to code quality improvement. If you're passionate about engineering excellence and eager to lead a team, we invite you to join us. Experience with crypto is not expected.

Who you are

• Proven track record shipping products
• You’ve worked on challenging software projects where you had to write a lot of code
• You're an expert in Golang or Rust with excellent software development practices
• You have excellent instincts for software architecture
• You value communication and collaboration
• You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
• US or EU timezone

What you'll do

• Design and build robust microservicing that interact with heterogeneous blockchains
• Design and build reliable tooling that interacts with Docker APIs
• Build new features on top of the cosmos-sdk or tendermint/cometbft.
• Build customer facing CLI tooling that interacts with signing sensitive requests
• Write driver software that defines how to interact with specific blockchains

Why work with us

• You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact
• You’ll work with and learn from a small, exceptional team (see here: https://cordialsystems.com/company)
• You’ll receive a competitive salary, along with equity
• You’ll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
• You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
• Your work will be deeply impactful, enabling a more transparent and safe asset management for enterprises in Web3 & digital asset management.

Salary and benefits

We offer a competitive salary and 0.5%-1% equity in the company.

Cordial Systems’ benefits include encouraged paid time off; insurance coverage; home office equipment stipend; and observed company holidays.