ShapeShift is the leading non-custodial digital asset platform, serving hundreds of thousands of customers across the world
Since 2014, ShapeShift has pioneered a new era of digital finance, earning a place as one of the most beloved and respected brands in a booming and volatile new industry
The company recently launched its new platform at beta
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Led by industry veteran Erik Voorhees, the company is seeking out the best new team members to further scale the organization and maintain leadership while the phenomenon of decentralized digital finance expands around the globe
As part of this growing team, ShapeShift is looking to hire the role of a Senior Software Engineer
POSITION OVERVIEW
ShapeShift is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build features into ShapeShift products
The Senior Software Engineer will be working in a number of code repositories, using some combination of JavaScript, Python, and go
The ideal candidate will thrive in a development environment where engineers find creative solutions inside of a standard framework
Standards are constantly iterated on as the cryptocurrency environment is in a high state of flux, and development best practices evolve
This position offers a unique opportunity to build the next generation of crypto tools for customer financial sovereignty
This is a full-time, exempt position, based in Denver, Colorado and reports to the Engineering Manager
Your desire to make a real impact on an organization and the world grows by the day
The ideal candidate will be open to daily changes in workflow and protocol (and force us to improve workflows)
As a start-up in an evolving space, there are new challenges that require new solutions every day
GOALS OF POSITIONS
- Work with a small team within the larger organization to build new features
- Be able to lead the break down of work into discrete, independently release-able stories
- Write clean, maintainable code with unit tests
- Track work in engineering-wide workflow (inside of Jira)
- Produce responsive cross-platform features
- Follow enterprise-wide coding and architecture standards
Contribute to standards as requested
- Proactively adds documentation to help others
- Understands networking basics and how different software systems communicate
- Can troubleshoot issues across systems independently
- Can be counted on for on-call tier-2 issue resolution
- Ability to be on-site and work with our team on a consistent basis
There is some opportunity for remote work and we are flexible with schedules but typically you will be in the office alongside the team
SUCCESS METRICS OF POSITIONS
- Consistent cycle-time for story completion
- Build features that pass third-party tested acceptance criteria
- Features developed include metrics collection to inform new product decisions
- Push code that if creates new issues in production, is simple to troubleshoot and resolve