About the role
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About Universal
Universal is a wrapped asset protocol designed to enable any asset to trade on any chain. Our goal is to unify liquidity across multiple blockchains and bring the offchain asset universe fully onchain. The Universal team has decades of experience in technology and finance, with previous work at organizations including Coinbase, Google, Longevity Fund and NASDAQ. We're proudly backed by leading investors including a16z Crypto and Coinbase.
Your Opportunity
You'll help build systems critical to Universal's current and future operations, responsible for handling billions of dollars of trading volume. You'll join during a period of rapid growth and help shape resilient systems that can handle the growing pains that come with the territory. You'll be at the vanguard of a new era in financial technology, and help find solutions to problems we don't even know exist yet.
What you'll do
- Build and own scalable services responsible for reliable and secure APIs that transfer value and assets across all blockchain protocols
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Requirements
- You spend your free time learning new things, and have a demonstrated interest in DeFi and financial technology
- You have 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems
- You take security seriously
- We work mostly in Typescript, Go, Rust, and Python. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
Nice To Have
- Familiarity with Coinbase Developer Platform, Prime Trading and Custody systems
- Experience with offensive security in crypto and finance
What we offer
- Competitive salary and equity
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- Work remotely
- Health, dental and vision insurance (US)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Work Laptop and Display
- Regular international offsites
- 401(k) Plan and Match (US)