What is the role about?
As a Staff Engineer, you have an impact on technical decisions, as well as a variety of projects and initiatives at Bitvavo. In this role, you are part of the Exchange team whose objective is to increase trading volumes, trading flows, and modes that allow users to buy and sell their favourite digital currencies on our platform. Together with our Engineer managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers, you strive to improve our existing architecture whilst mentoring and building strong relationships with our Senior Engineers.
Do you have an affinity for Crypto? Our team is looking for self-driven, talented team players who can help make digital assets available for everyone!
How will you make an impact?
- Being part of the Exchange domain and leading technology initiatives from start to finish
- Being responsible for designing, architecting, developing and implementing the strategic vision and solution for our future scalable data-driven trading activities
- Defining best practices, processes and coding standards that fuel innovative ideas for emerging business needs and demands
- Mentoring and inspiring engineers on technical decisions and initiative
- Raising the bar on practices and standards while demonstrating leadership
How will you be successful?
- 5+ years of experience in a similar role within the Financial Services industry
- Experience within the FinTech/Trading space, and very good understanding of the inner workings of an Exchange are a must
- Experience with AWS,TypeScript, JavaScript and NodeJS
- Experience with event-driven microservices (Kafka)
- Knowledge of algorithm complexity and framework structures
- Firm understanding of programming design patterns and principles, as well as object-oriented programming
What do we offer?
Excellent employment terms, including:
- A very competitive package
- Catered lunch and breakfast in the office
- 26 days of annual leave, and your birthday off!
- Personal development budget and internal courses
- Unlimited access to coaching platform and monthly wellbeing budget
- Hybrid environment within The Netherlands
Who are we?
We are Bitvavo. We’re on a mission to make digital assets accessible to everyone. This means creating a user-friendly and reliable trading platform, with a wide variety of digital assets and transparent trading fees. Over the years we’ve become a trusted exchange used by over one million Europeans.
Bitvavo was founded in 2018 and has come a long way since then. We’re now a team of more than 200 employees from 33 different nationalities and we’ll keep growing to achieve our mission. Our headquarters are based in the canal district of Amsterdam.
