**What is BlockFi?** BlockFi's mission is to provide liquidity, transparency and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. We build bridges between traditional finance and digital markets that enable growth for all participants. We're a team of builders and strivers, proud to champion financial inclusivity and offer economic opportunities around the globe. We provide the same inclusivity to our team members. BlockFi is a place where diversity is celebrated, individuality is recognized, and every single team member is valued. We are changing the status quo to be the first financial company that people love, and we rely on our people to make it happen! BlockFi is looking for a **Staff Software Engineer **to join our Institutional Trading Platform Engineering team! **About the Team** The Institutional Trading Platform Engineering team is focused on building a crypto platform for our Institutional trading business. You will partner closely with the operations team and product to build capabilities that will facilitate the movement of multi-billions worth of assets internally and externally by integrating with multiple internal and third party platforms. You will also shape tools and products that allow us to effectively track and report all the transactions across platforms. The team's technical stack is TypeScript, React, & Python (Backend) with services hosted on AWS. We're building the core services that power our business and help manage multi-billion worth of assets. We are pragmatic problem solvers that are excited to tackle some of the most interesting challenges in the Crypto-FinTech arena. **Your Mission** As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle hands-on, high impact work as we develop a platform built for global scale. You will act as technical leader for a team, identify and define problems, design and implement technical solutions and tools, and mentor and teach more junior engineers. We are looking for proactive, collaborative, and adaptive engineers who have real world distributed systems experience at scale. - **Architect/Design**: - Create architecture and formulate design decisions for your services which are aligned with business vision and meet quality criteria. - Work with diverse stakeholders to ensure our systems are built for availability, reliability, resilience, scalability, performance, and security from the ground up. - Write design proposals and review proposals from other engineers. Ensure tradeoffs are clearly and publicly documented. - **Deliver and Own Solutions**: - Responsible for creating and executing on plans and designs end to end at a team level: estimating, prototyping, implementing, testing, maintaining, debugging, and supporting high-quality software in production. - Work with stakeholders to understand and document both functional and quality attribute requirements. - Ensure that teams adhere to quality standards through cross-team communication, mentoring, code review, and backlog grooming. - Accountable for system availability and monitoring system health; ensure alerts, metrics, and runbooks are in place; and debug issues in production. - **Lead**: - Technical leader of a team, with significant technical and cultural impact beyond that team. - Guide engineers in focusing on outcomes and carefully considering business goals, tradeoffs, quality attributes, cross-cutting concerns, and risks. - Continuously improve engineering standards, processes, planning, solutions, and efficiency. - Listen and guide debates to help reach a consensus. Once a decision is made, clearly communicate and support that decision. - **Adapt**: - Quickly learn new tools and technologies, develop an understanding of existing systems, and identify and tackle high impact work. - Proactively seek to learn about the company, products, processes, and culture. Align technical decisions with business goals. **Your Expertise** - **Technical Breadth as well as Depth in Several Areas**: - You have solid experience with frontend Javascript frameworks like React - Deep knowledge and experience with the Amazon AWS ecosystem. - Nice to have some experience with GraphQL. - Developing and maintaining unit and automation tests is important to you. - Able to clearly identify, communicate, and document technical tradeoffs, and guides others to do the same. As a bonus, mentoring, sharing knowledge and technical presentations are exciting to you. - **Technical Ownership**: Experience owning software systems end-to-end, designing, estimating, implementing, testing, maintaining, debugging, and supporting high-quality software in production. - **Communication**:Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to listen and learn from as well as explain complex ideas to stakeholders of varying levels of technical expertise. - **Collaboration**:Demonstrable experience with establishing strong relationshi