Technical Support Engineer (Linux) – London

Parity Technologies builds core infrastructure for blockchains and Web 3.0 technologies. This means dealing with P2P networking, consensus algorithms, cryptography, databases, and decentralised applications. We strive to write the fastest, lightest, and safest core technology in Blockchain and write lots of open-source code.

We have built and launched live networks like Kusama and Polkadot atop the Substrate blockchain framework at Parity Technologies. We want to bring to these networks first-class end-to-end user experiences which tell a story of how easy it is to use these next-generation blockchains. 

The Role

As a Technical Support Engineer you are the go-to for any and all issues related to the hardware that enables our employees to be productive while they are in the office or on the go. You are responsible for fixing the myriad of problems brought to to you with an unparalleled instinct for diagnosing the issue and a passion for helping others. 

Not content to just consider an issue resolved by a quick fix, you want to understand our users regular workflows in order to identify the best solution for any problem that pops up, and you are excited to learn new skills that broaden the scope of problems you can help fix. While you have the knowledge and expertise to work with machines, you enjoy interacting with people and helping someone new. 

Core Responsibilities

  • Support for all internal technical operations.
  • Solve enterprise scale problems by creatively engineering automated solutions.
  • Install, configure, and maintain Linux and Mac workstations.
  • Troubleshoot and provide solutions for networking and connectivity issues.

What We Value

  • Have enough knowledge of Linux and Mac operating systems to be comfortable and sure when helping your colleagues.
  • Manage the command line interface with ease – both in Linux and MAC environments
  • Passion and good knowledge of common Open Source Software products
  • Have great knowledge and interest in the fast-changing consumer and professional IT device market.

About the position 

This is a highly varied ‘all things support’ type position, the successful individual will be supporting all levels of employee technical support issues.  The ability to build productive relationships with colleagues at remote locations around the world will make you successful in this role as will patience and a sense of humour. The End User Technical Support is part of the Security Team at Parity Technologies, so you will be working hands-on with end user security issues and exposed to security topics within an organisation which is building the infrastructure to build web3.

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Sanctions Compliance Associate

At Anchorage we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service. We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn.We are a remote-first, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in San Francisco, New York City, Indianapolis, Sioux Falls, Porto, and Singapore.The Sanctions Compliance Associate will be a part of a team continuously enhancing a program based on industry developments. This role is crucial in ensuring the quality of execution in the sanctions alert dispositioning activities, which is key in the Anchorage Digital’s BSA/AML and Sanctions Compliance Framework.

As a Sanctions Compliance Associate, you will:

    • Drive the execution of the sanctions program and sanctions alert dispositioning
    • Assist the OFAC Officer and Sanctions Compliance Team with building out the Sanctions program
    • Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders on firm wide initiatives
    • Deliver results in a timely manner
    • Drive internal discussions with stakeholders to facilitate the relevant Sanction projects

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

    • Experience in BSA/AML and/or Sanctions
    • Knowledge in BSA/AML and/or Sanctions Regulations
    • Expertise in using blockchain analytics tools to disposition alerts
    • A passion for building at early stage startups
    • Strong Attention to detail and high level of curiosity 

Although not a requirement, bonus points if you:

    • Have expertise in data analytics and/or spreadsheet pivots/formulas for data analysis
    • Find yourself utilizing block explorers in your personal or professional life
    • You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. 🙂

About Anchorage Digital – People: Who we areThe Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As  a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives. Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

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Financial Manager (PH)

Join the leading Crypto Brand in the Philippines!Who we areWe are one of the oldest and largest crypto platforms in Southeast Asia offering exchange and wallet services to our users. Our product lineup also includes electronic payment service and e-wallet. Through our wallet, users can send money to anyone, pay for bills, shop online at over 100,000 merchants, receive money transfers from 200+ countries even without a bank account, and of course view and purchase cryptocurrencies.

What you'll do

    • Manage the company’s full spectrum accounting process including month end, quarterly and year end processes, create and/or update financial policies, procedures and processes
    • Supervise and review the work of the accounting team including cash reconciliations, check runs, AP/AR transactions
    • Managing the financial reporting of the Company to ensure all provincial, federal and financial regulatory reporting deadlines are met 
    • Work with other department heads in discussing matters concerning finance such as contracts, operational issues, compliance and budgeting and forecasting etc.
    • Overseeing commercial decision making from tender analysis, margin analysis, pricing analysis etc
    • Coordinate and facilitate all tax requirements regarding bookkeeping and optimize tax expenses
    • Risk Management to ensure the business has a solid risk framework in place
    • Source and lead the implementation of new financial system and the migration from old system to the new system

What we expect from you

    • CPA with 5+ years' experience in a financial managerial position with a proven record of success
    • Sound decision making skills based on accurate and timely analyses
    • Exceptional interpersonal communication and leadership skills, with the ability to communicate and manage staff at all levels
    • Ability to collaborate with upper management to organize, plan and achieve company financial goals
    • Big 4 Auditing experience is a plus
    • Process automation and system implementation experience is highly desirable

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Legal Counsel (PH)

Join the leading Crypto Brand in the Philippines!Who we areWe are one of the oldest and largest crypto platforms in Southeast Asia offering exchange and wallet services to our users. Our product lineup also includes electronic payment service and e-wallet. Through our wallet, users can send money to anyone, pay for bills, shop online at over 100,000 merchants, receive money transfers from 200+ countries even without a bank account, and of course view and purchase cryptocurrencies.

What you'll do

    • Provide clear and actionable counsel to the business on a broad range of legal and regulatory issues involving transactional, operational, and risk-related matters. 
    • Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment, including the impact on the company's long-term strategy for business.
    • Provide innovative legal solutions for complex projects involving new technologies to support commercial objectives including the analysis and advice on new regulatory guidance in the fintech industry. 
    • Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial contracts, such as but not limited to vendor contracts and investment agreements.
    • Serve as part of a multi-jurisdiction international legal team.
    • Assist in guiding and driving licensing efforts and eliminating regulatory and operational blockers by collaborating with cross-functional teams internally and engaging with local regulators.

What we expect from you

    • Minimum 4 -7 years of post-qualification experience in general corporate, M&A, regulatory compliance, and/or dispute resolution practices in the Philippines. 
    • Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, clear communication, and business pragmatism.
    • A good team player and enjoys working in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.
    • Motivated self-starter with a passion for payments and cryptocurrency and requires minimal supervision.
    • Fluency in English with outstanding writing and communication skills.  

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AML Officer (PH)

Join the leading Crypto Brand in the Philippines!Who we areWe are one of the oldest and largest crypto platforms in Southeast Asia offering exchange and wallet services to our users. Our product lineup also includes electronic payment service and e-wallet. Through our wallet, users can send money to anyone, pay for bills, shop online at over 100,000 merchants, receive money transfers from 200+ countries even without a bank account, and of course view and purchase cryptocurrencies.

What you'll do

    • Researches, assesses, implements, and manages the areas of financial services regulations and laws and procedures, consumer protection, and public interest laws.
    • Implements the Anti-Money Laundering program of the organization
    • Develops and puts in place sound KYC/KYB frameworks and ensure ongoing monitoring and review
    • Assists with issues escalations to the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Compliance Officer; recommends further due diligence where required
    • Works closely with the front line staff in overseeing AML compliance procedures and advises on anti-money laundering queries.
    • Review account with red flags and assess the need to apply the necessary actions
    • Ensures that operational processes are compliant, sufficient, documented, and implemented such as enhanced due diligence, KYC etc.

What we expect from you

    • Graduated from a 4-year business, accounting, law or similar course from a reputable institution.
    • A minimum of 2 years of experience relative to Regulatory and AML Compliance and/or system audit, in the Banking/Financial Services Industry.
    • At least 2 years of KYC experience with a financial institution or other regulated business.
    • AML certification is desirable.
    • Proven business and operational experience
    • Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
    • Good organizational skills, ability to prioritize, manage multiple tasks, adhere to strict deadlines.

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Senior Product Manager (Nigeria)

Company Summary

AZA Finance is the largest non-bank in Africa and an established provider of Payments, FX and Treasury providing cross-border payment solutions which accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure. By leveraging cutting edge technology with our proprietary technology, AZA Finance is able to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and across frontier markets.

Our API product provides both wholesale currency purchase and retail settlement via our robust API while our Web-Based platform is our B2B over-the-counter product that caters to businesses with wholesale currency needs, especially those paying partners and suppliers.

Licensed by the UK’s FCA and the Bank of Spain, AZA Finance is a market-maker in every major African currency. AZA Finance was founded in 2013 and now has offices in Nairobi, Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Kampala, Accra, Durban and Dakar.

Job Summary

We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference to the lives of millions living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.

If you’re someone that loves to solve complex problems using only the tools you build, then you’re already the right fit to join us as at AZA. The AZA product team is known for their cross functional product knowledge and hands-on approach to getting things done.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to be part of our product team. Our product and engineering headquarters are located in London, with distributed teams in Lagos, Nairobi and remote colleagues across the globe.

In this role, you will:

  • Manage the entire product lifecycle from planning to implementation.
  • Build and manage product roadmap and product strategies working in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Lead innovation across products and components working with the technology division.
  • Analyse user behavior and conduct research to identify trends within our target customer base and market, then translate those insights into product features.
  • Build constant feedback loops with clients and internal teams incorporating them into the decision-making process.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to develop, learn and iterate on product features and workflows, ensuring high-level execution.
  • Manage backlogs and coordinate delivery using agile methodologies.
  • Coordinate company-wide launches and communications.
  • Define and analyse metrics that inform the success of products after any launches.
  • Create and maintain documentation, education and training materials.
  • Provide operations oversight working with channel management, account management, customer service and external partners.
  • At least 5 years working in product management.
  • Experience managing and launching B2B products.
  • Fintech background preferred.
  • Have a demonstrated ability owning and driving results in an innovative and fast paced environment
  • Flexibility and adaptability required for handling fast growth stage phases
  • Quickly grasp complex concepts and distill them down to something simple and easy to understand
  • Is exceptionally strong in both quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Demonstrate superior communication skills to stakeholders across the business
  • Naturally curious and inquisitive and don’t readily accept the status quo
  • Ability to conceptualize, manage and prioritize across multiple competing priorities
  • Flexibility and adaptability context and priorities on growth stage
  • Use data to drive decision making
  • Frontier markets and/or crypto experience is a plus
  • A competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
  • One of the hottest, fastest scaling start-ups in Africa.
  • Casual work environment.
  • Great work-life balance.
  • We value autonomy.
  • Opportunity for growth for all employees.
  • Opportunity to work hard and play hard.

AZA is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. AZA does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability

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Freelance Technical Writer

Bitstamp is the original Cryptocurrency Exchange.

Since 2011 when we started in a garage with just two laptops and some big ideas, we have been at the forefront of the crypto industry, driving innovation and ensuring that above all else we are human in our approach, trusted by our customers and, with an unwavering belief in blockchain technology, providing secure and innovative access to crypto to all corners of the world.

Our success has been always about the amazing ideas, talent and passion of our people and the disruption we have created together on our crazy crypto journey. We are growing faster than ever, creating opportunities where we find the best people and always looking for the next bunch of crypto-curious thinkers and individuals who want to make the next difference.

Bitstamp is looking for a remote writer to join our freelance team and produce educational content. As a freelance writer, you will write and edit clear and compelling articles that cater to a wide audience, from beginner to pro and institutional traders.

What you’ll do

  • Research, write and edit Bitstamp education articles.
  • Deliver around 4-8 articles per month (exact deliverables to be mutually agreed upon).
  • Revise content based on feedback from Bitstamp editors.
  • Appropriately structure and add keywords to improve SEO performance based on guidance from editing team.
  • Have an eye for detail, consistency, and accuracy in all deliverables. Proactively communicate your copy decisions to the editing team.
  • Own your projects through every stage of production.
  • Open to feedback and growth – strive to document and share your process, workflow, feedback history, and decisions.

On day one you’ll bring

  • Bachelor’s degree (with a focus on English, communications, journalism, education engineering, mathematics, or equivalent).
  • Native English speaker / writing style.
  • 3+ years’ experience as a writer or editor.
  • In-depth knowledge of the crypto industry. Finance and trading experience or knowledge preferred.
  • Strong communication skills across remotely distributed teams and partners.
  • Attention to detail, accuracy, quality, and speed.
  • Resilient, motivated, and passionate about creating written content.
  • Outstanding grammar and proofreading skills.
  • Ability to distill complex topics into simple, concise messaging.

We’ll love it even more if you have

  • Experience working in a fast-paced tech environment.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills.

You will fit right in at Bitstamp if you are

  • Passionate – about crypto, about change, about making a difference.
  • A Creative thinker – a box? what box? there is no box.
  • Self-motivated – you are resourceful and seek solutions through collaboration.

Logistics

  • Remote.

Our Story

Bitstampers are truly passionate about bringing cryptocurrency to the mainstream and championing independent investing with life changing potential.

We are proud to be leading the way in creating access to this next generation of finance and have become the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange by driving innovation and ensuring that we are, above all else, human in our approach, trusted by our customers and, with an unwavering belief in blockchain technology, always strive to provide secure and innovative crypto access to all corners of the world.

This doesn’t happen by chance, and we believe our success has come from our belief in the power of being different and finding people who want to explore together, create together and support each other’s growth.

We have already achieved so much, and have our sights set firmly on our future. Come join in our revolution and be part of the Bitstamp story.

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Front-end Engineer (Blockchain)

About the role

MAKE is looking for a full-time mid-level or senior front-end engineer who will help us build a cross-browser blockchain wallet using React and TypeScript. The role expects active collaboration with team members in the European timezone.

Required Skills

  • At least three years of experience with Javascript
  • At least two years of experience with React
  • Experience with TypeScript
  • Understanding of client-side architecture principles: Flux, MV*
  • Understanding of object-oriented design
  • Understanding of semantic markup
  • Understanding of scrum-like iterative development processes
  • Comfortable with version control, build and test automation, continuous integration
  • English proficiency sufficient to communicate with American co-workers
  • Self-organization and proactiveness

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with browser extensions
  • Experience with Node.js
  • Experience with React Native
  • Experience with other programming languages

Compensation

Compensation dependent on experience and skill level.

Location

The position is remote. We have team members in Ukraine, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA.

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UX Writer/Technical writer

MELD is a new generation of banking like products built on blockchain technology and guided by the goal to bring banking to all people in the world. MELD is a decentralized and trustless network built on the Cardano Blockchain using smart contracts and governed by the MELD token. This provides a fast, safe and transparent set of tools for all participants to lend and borrow in.

Are you up for the task of building a DeFi protocol? Do you think you can do it better than traditional finance? We would love to have you join our team and reach this goal. You will help us explore and design a new type of blockchain ecosystem for lending, borrowing and other financial products. You will work with design and engineering teams to describe the user experience and connect it to technical documentation. You should have a great understanding of blockchains, crypto, and mobile/web app development and design.

The role is to document the UX and UI on several levels and coordinate/align it with the other documentation. You will be working closely with the designers, product management and developers to facilitate understanding and consistent product development.

Key qualifications

  • Strong communication.
  • Very strong English writing experience.
  • Project management experience.
  • Proactive and precise.
  • Design, editorial, service design experience is a plus.
  • Experience with blockchain and crypto.

Your responsibilities

  • Study to understand the relevant dApp technologies.
  • Write user stories, use cases, user flows and product requirements for both our web app and native mobile app products.
  • Coordinate and align the UX writing with technical specifications, functional documentation and product vision documents.
  • Work closely with designers and developers to build such products and update the UX documentation.
  • Coordinate with roadmaps and tasks.
  • Work with partners, other teams like operational, legal, marketing, etc to make sure the development team is always up-to-date and can progress smoothly.
  • Support and participate in the business requirements and product requirements.
  • Write periodic reports and updates.
  • Help build a positive and healthy working environment, to ensure that everyone thrives.


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DeFi Security Researcher

You will be working closely with the engineering team and be responsible for designing secure frameworks for financial products of Perpetual Protocol and figuring out potential systemic flaws that can lead to exploitation and financial losses.

*This is a full-time position that is 100% remote, only open to people whose timezone within UTC +5 and UTC +11. This role will be entitled to an annual team token distribution.

Responsibilities

  • Revise the current design of products of Perpetual Protocol

  • Communicate with the engineering team to help enhance the security and avoid potential loopholes

  • Engage in the design process of new features on the security and architectural aspect to prevent any financial exploitation

  • Review the code produced by the engineering team to make sure it’s secure whilst delivering the expected functionality

  • Brainstorm complicated but practical attack scenarios with the engineering team and propose corresponding solutions

  • Research the design of competitors or related protocols on the security aspect and share them with teammates

  • Keep updated on security incidents in DeFi (decentralized finance) and pass them to the team when relevant

Requirements

  • Great software engineering skills

  • Enthusiastic & knowledgeable about software development security, financial products and DeFi

  • Knowledge of how blockchains work, especially Ethereum and Optimism

  • Proficiency in Solidity

  • Strong communication and organization skills

  • 2+ years of work experience in software development, security firm or DeFi

Nice to have

  • 2+ years of familiarity with DeFi

  • Successful bug bounty submission experiences

  • Any form of security insights sharing, including but not restricted to articles, talks or bug bounty reports

  • Participation in CTF (capture the flag) or any security competition

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