Overview

You will be joining a fast-paced engineering team made up of people with significant experience working with terabytes of data. We believe that everybody has something to bring to the table, and therefore put collaborative effort and team-work above all else (and not just on the engineering side).Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is on track to revolutionize how the financial sector works, through an entirely new system of technologically enforced contract guarantees. As a Blockchain Engineer, you develop and maintain services needed to interact with existing and future blockchains, to support Kaiko’s collection growth towards new types of data and new data sources.

You will be able to work autonomously as an equally trusted member of the team, in close relationship with the Data Engineers, and participate in efforts such as:

- Addressing “big data” problems: current head of ethereum blockchain is at 12M+, how do we index that data and query it efficiently?

- Working on Smart Contracts and Oracles : we partner with Chainlink and Tezos today

- Addressing high availability problems: data replication, disaster recovery, etc.

Our Stack

- Monitoring: VictoriaMetrics (+ vmalert and vmagent), Grafana
- Alerting: AlertManager, Sensu Go
- Logging: Vector
- Caching: Redis (phasing out in favor of FoundationDB)
- Secrets management and PKI: Vault
- Configuration management and provisioning: Terraform, Ansible
- Service discovery: Consul
- Messaging: Kafka
- Proxying: HAProxy
- Service deployment: Terraform, Nomad (plugged in Consul and Vault), Kubernetes (to a lesser extent, used for non production critical workloads)
- Database systems: ClickHouse (main datastore), FoundationDB (caching, deduplication)
- Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04
- Protocols: gRPC, HTTP (phasing out in favor of gRPC), WebSocket (phasing out in favor of gRPC)
- Geth and Solidity
- Platforms (packaged in Docker containers): Golang, NodeJS (phasing out in favor of Golang), Ruby (phasing out in favor of Golang)

Your Missions

- Design, develop and deploy smart contracts and work with Blockchains and Oracles

-Design, develop and deploy scalable and observable backend microservices tailored for Blockchain, DEXes and DeFi data collection (trades, liquidity pools, hash rate, etc)

- Work hand-in-hand with the business team and the data engineering team on developing new features, addressing issues and extending the platform

Who We Are Looking For

- Significant experience as a Software/Data/DevOps Engineer

- Deep understanding of Blockchain technology (Solidity, Vyper), Oracles, and Decentralized Finance (Curve, Balancer, AMMs, Yearn, Aave, Synthetix ... etc): ideally, you have used and integrated these protocols before

- You can abstract the complexity of low-level smart contract interactions through scripting and rest APIs

- Knowledgeable about data ingestion pipelines and massive data querying

- Worked with, in no particular order: microservices architecture, infrastructure as a code, self-managed services (eg. deploy and maintain our own databases), distributed services, server-side development, etc

Please note that we don’t have any “hard” requirements in terms of development platforms or technologies: we are primarily interested in people capable of adapting to an ever changing landscape of technical requirements, who learn fast and are not afraid to constantly push our technical boundaries.It is not uncommon for us to benchmark new technologies for a specific feature, or to change our infrastructure in a big way to better suit our needs.

The most important skills for us revolve around two things:

- What we like to call “core” knowledge: what’s a software process, how does it interact with a machine’s or the network’s resources, what kind of constraints can we expect for certain workloads, what purpose does it serve, etc
- How fast you can adapt to a technology you didn’t know existed 10 minutes ago

Nice to Have

- Experience developing financial product methodologies for indices, reference rates, and exchange rates

- Knowledgeable about the technicalities of financial market data, such as the difference between: calls, puts, straddles, different types of bonds, swaps, CFD, CDS, options, futures, etc

- Experience with Smart Contract static analysis tooling (e.g. Manticore) or formal verification (e.g. KEVM)

Personal Skills

- Honest, getting and giving feedback is very important to you
- Humble, making new errors is an essential part of your journey
- Empathetic, you feel a sense of responsibility for all the team’s endeavors and don’t pay attention to the individual level of involvement
- Committed, as an equally important member of the team, you want to make yourself heard while respecting everybody’s point of view
- Fluent in written and spoken English (we have 5 different nationalities in the team!)
- You have the utmost respect for legacy code and infrastructure, with some occasional and perfectly understandable respectful complaints

We do our best to select people that lead by example and experience rather than by position or seniority.

Recruitment Process

- Hangout/Meet/Discord (20mins)
- Meeting with the head of engineering as well as another senior member of the team for a technical/product RPG: you read that right, no written test, no whiteboard quicksort implementation (1h30)
- Informal discussion with other members of the company (business, sales, 30m) and HR meeting (20mins).
- Meeting with our CEO

Each step is generally held on a different day, we do our best to follow-up in the next 24 hours, and we always provide the candidates with a thorough explanation of our decision.

Company Perks

• Hardware of your choice
• Paid vacation
• Health insurance
• Multiple team events (annual retreat, casual drinks, etc.)
• An entrepreneurial environment with a lot of autonomy and responsibilities
• Staff surprises: just because we know that occasionally, small delights can brighten your day
• Other perks

Additional Information

• Contract type: Permanent - full time
• International applicants welcome!

Interested? Apply now by emailing your resume and a short introduction to jobs@kaiko.com! 

Your Responsibilities

- Conceptualize, launch and scale products, platforms and marketplaces
- Lead and execute projects and be accountable for your projects within the 360X team
- Deliver continuous product and platform support (incl. marketing plans, operational
implementation)
- Practice ongoing product and market observation (analyse, prioritise, optimise, repeat)
- Ensure product success and make product hypercompetitive in relevant market
- Coordinate with tech team, build and own a detailed development roadmap
- Communicate with senior management and banking partners about key concepts and issues

Your Skills

 Able to structure complex topics into digestable portions, prioritise and execute them
 Curiosity: celebrate novelty, unconventionality and uncertainty
 Know the right questions and possess the drive to find precise answers
 Strong communicator across diverse set of stakeholders in tech, business and cross-sector
 Passionate for financial inclusion, blockchain or crypto; knowledge of art, real estate and
gaming industries beneficial
 Teamplayer
 Track record of achievement

We offer

 An outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated individual to participate in the growth of
a unique incubator for the serial creation of new marketplaces
 A challenging project experience across a highly diverse set of asset classes, stakeholders,
and technologies
 A central and modern workplace with high development potential in Frankfurt/Main

The position is based in Frankfurt/Main and vacant immediately. We will support at every stage of
the visa process. If your background and qualifications meet these specifications, please forward
your application via eMail to: Marcel at: #mp@gemerapartners.com#

Your Missions

As a Product Operation Analyst, your role & mission will drive you to :

Product Monitoring: Build, maintain and request for development of monitoring tools and dashboards solutions in place, trigger and manage incidents proactively. You are able to provide Kaiko teams with key KPI on the product use metrics PMs & Growth team.

Product launches: you supervise and contribute to Product launches as per Kaiko’s launch process, guaranteeing delivery quality, service non regression and act as key actor for Go-no-go decisions for launches you lead.

Customer Support: You follow-up with customers' requests and calls raised following a rigorous case management process ensuring that (i) Kaiko product ops knowledge builds up and (ii) that we can follow on a customer basis their experience of our products. You provide on a regular basis feedback to the Product team from the support channels to make sure PMs are aware of negative feedback on our suite. You proactively monitor established communication channels with our customers to make sure contact attempts are not left unanswered in a timely manner depending on our own SLA commitment.

Customer onboarding: You are early on involved by Sales when signing a new customer to onboard them on our products providing them with the adequate level of explanations, documentation accesses and technical accesses relying on internal tools and infrastructure. You make sure this onboarding is as smooth as possible and are key to improve it.

You will take the lead on an external stakeholder management / internal key product process of your choice. 

What We Are Looking For

- A proactive customer oriented individual who is hands on their inquiries
- A data driven team member oriented towards gathering the max info on the product in an industrialized fashion via the tools
- A process friendly professional looking to automate all non added value tasks as they repeat themselves for maximum efficiency
- A contributor comfortable with lean canvas / product cycle approachA technically capable team member (python, REST scripting, postman, grafana setup and interpretation, data quality inquiry)
- A reliable and autonomous team member with a strong delivery oriented spirit

Additional Information

Contract type: 6-month internship

Desired starting date: [ASAP]

Location: Paris, France (Boulevard Haussmann, 8th arrondissement)

International applicants welcome!

Interested? Apply now by emailing your resume and a short introduction to jobs@kaiko.com! 

Your Responsibilities

• Drive the growth by setting a clear product strategy and mobilizing a crossfunctional team to achieve KPIs / OKRs

• Own end-to-end design, development, and rollout of software products for enterprise customers in the financial services industry

• Engage with customers to understand and enable their goals and address their hurdles

• Lean on your leadership and communication skills to drive action across technical, commercial and regulatory stakeholders

• Contribute to the continued growth of our product team culture and Processes Your Skills

• 4 years experience in a Business Analysis / Product Management role, ideally at a B2B software company or Financial Industry with some regulatory frameworks / oversight

• Front to Back analysis skillset and technical projects delivery record from idea to production (including design and testing oversight)

• Experience working closely with commercial teams and customers through all stages of the product development lifecycle

• Technical literacy and basic programming skills, including data extraction (e.g. SQL), understanding software architecture

• Intellectual curiocity about new products, businesses and technologies Nice to have

• Programming background and experience (incl. machine learning)

• Understanding how financial industry operates, including payment rails

We offer

• An outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated individual to participate in the growth of a unique incubator for the serial creation of new marketplaces

• A challenging project experience across a highly diverse set of asset classes, stakeholders, and technologies

• A central and modern workplace with high development potential in Frankfurt/Main

The position is based in Frankfurt/Main and vacant immediately.

We will support at every stage of the visa process. If your background and qualifications meet these specifications, please forward your application via eMail to: mp@gemerapartners.com

Key requirements:

• Excellent Writing skills, perfectly fluent English and with a sharp eye for details
• Extremely reactive while continuously sourcing for relevant information
• Digital savvy and knowledgeable about SM interaction
• Courteous, diplomat and tactful
• Strategic thinker
• Fluency in other languages a BIG plus

If you bring along:

• Design Skills (Pictures and/or Videos)

Let us know who you are!

Apply Today!

Tasks

• Design, implement and support client-side applications
• Write tests which will cover major amount of functionality and non-functional requirements
• Designing architecture of new client-side applications and features
• Participate in architecture meetings and take part in making architecture decisions
• Perform optimisation analysis and make optimizations in code
• Perform issue- and bug-fixing
• Provide estimations for all related tasks
• Provide feedback and improvement ideas for project life cycle
• Perform code review for other frontend developers

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or higher;
• 3+ years of experience in client-side JavaScript development;
• 1+ year of pertinent experience at a similar position;
• Perfect knowledge of details in Vue framework, HTML and CSS;
• Knowledge of software engineering processes;
• Experience in designing software solutions.
• Technical competencies and qualifications
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Deep knowledge of Javascript language;
• Good understanding of building tools, for example Webpack;
• NodeJS knowledge and how it differs from developing client-side applications is a plus;
• Experience in optimizing web assets and content (chunking, server-side (pre)rendering, lazy loading, etc.)
• Skilled at writing tests (test-driven approach is preferred) and using UI testing frameworks;
• Proficiency in html/css markup.

Required soft skills

• Impeccable communication, presentation and organizational skills
• Significant attention to details
• Maintain a positive attitude while giving and receiving constructive criticism to make improvements and take appropriate corrective actions;
• Honesty and ethic;
• Be open to changes (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace;
• Willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Project's technology stack

• Vue
• TypeScript
• SCSS

Working Conditions

• Flexible 40-hour work week;
• Possibility of remote work;
• Permanent, full-time position;
• Relaxed work environment;
• English courses.

As a Product Manager at Infura you will do the following,

• Define the product specifications for new products, product updates, and new product features. This includes detailed outlines of the product goals, UX requirements, pricing structures, target audience, and strategy for analyzing product performance.
• Own the release/launch plan for new products, product updates, and new product features. This includes working directly with Project Management, Engineering, Design, Marketing, QA, and Customer Support to ensure all teams are aligned on the launch requirements, timelines, and post release monitoring.
• Build complex data analysis and monitoring dashboards for everything from service level metrics to product specific usage which you will use to help guide the team's strategic decisions and priorities.
• Work directly with the Product Design and Customer Support teams to build user research plans and to be the lead pulse tracker of our customers. This includes direct customer research and community engagement for feature requests, bug reports, and general customer feedback.
• Developers are our customers therefore being closely tied in with the engineering team is critical. You will be working together to understand customer needs, the complexity of the technology we serve, and the limitations of specific features or products.
• Own the business outcomes of the products and features you manage. 

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or higher degree in computer science, math, economics, statistics, or related technical field
• Experience on a full development cycle through launch on a developer targeted product or service
• Experience building in depth product specifications and strategy for technical products or services
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data pipelines and data analysis tools such as, SQL, Grafana, Tableau, etc.
• Effective and powerful communicator who excels with a team that values autonomy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on a major cloud service provider and or software as a service provider
• Detailed understanding of project management pipelines and coordinating complex products across all project disciplines
• Have led or actively participated in a process for engaging customers on product feedback and thrive on interacting deeply with your product’s audience
• Experience participating in the full development cycle from proposal through live operations.
• Experience in using SQL, Python, Go or ETL systems
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Responsibilities:

• Orchestrating digital content strategies across all online platforms.
• Driving traffic and engagement that translates to sales and brand promotion.
• Managing a content marketing budget.
• Measuring the results of content marketing activity to inform future campaigns.
• Coordinating with a shared team of writers, graphic designers, and researchers to help accomplish your goals.
• Implementing SEO best practices.
• Knowing which platform different kinds of content are best suited to.
• Designing and implementing creative marketing strategies to disseminate content.

Content Marketing Manager Requirements:

• 5 years of hands-on experience and/or education in Marketing related field.
• Experience with online community building.
• In-depth understanding of crypto markets, communities, and technologies
• Data-driven and highly analytical.
• Proficiency with social media analytics.
• Time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, in English.
• Multi-lingual is a plus. 

Compensation

Salary and other benefits are TBD based on experience and fit.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, scope, and estimate complex backend products/upgrades

• Envision and develop features to help grow PancakeSwap

• Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team to plan projects at the task level

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners on all aspects of product development

• Identify and advocate for team-wide areas of improvement and best practices

• Regularly maintain and upgrade subgraphs

Skills & Qualifications

• Solid experience with GraphQL and subgraphs (Extremely important)

• Ability to write structured and clean code

• Experience with Javascript testing tools

• Experience with Web3 and Ethereum nodes

• Ability to work independently and innovate

• Experience with smart contracts and Solidity

• Ability to build and maintain a product at scale

Good to have

• Experience with NoSQL database

• Experience with WebAssembly

• Experience with IPFS

Responsibilities include:

• Design, implement and support software production.
• Write tests that guarantee high quality of functional and non-functional characteristics of produced code.
• Perform code review for other developers.
• Take part in making architectural decisions.
• Transfer your knowledge to other team members.
• Select and integrate frameworks and libraries which will be the part of software systems (and prove your selections).

The ideal candidate has:

• 2+ years of experience.
• Experience in Rust, with a fair knowledge of the language specification.
• Thorough knowledge of the standard library, and algorithms.
• Understanding of basics in DevOps engineering.
• Knowledge of principles and practices in Agile development.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning and git-flow.
• Knowledge of networking protocols, p2p and distributed systems is a plus.
• Understanding cryptography algorithms, blockchain concepts is a plus.
• Understanding of blockchain consensus algorithms work is a plus.
• Knowledge of one or more blockchain protocols: Hyperledger Iroha, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, Quorum, MultiChain, R3 Corda, Polkadot, Cosmos or other is a plus.
• Knowledge in C++ language is a plus.

The Role:

We are looking for a Java backend developer that has experience with critical production systems (i.e. payment systems, B2B systems, Telco or similar systems). 

Tasks

• Design, implement and support software system.

• Write tests which will cover major amount of functionality and non-functional requirements.

• Perform code review for other backend developers.

• Participate in architecture meetings and take part in making architecture decisions.

• Provide knowledge transfer inside the company (document important parts of the system, provide workshops or lectures inside the company).

• Provide mentorship for junior developers and interns.

• Analyze requirements and select technologies which will speed up implementation keeping quality on needed level.

• Provide estimations for all related tasks.

• Perform issue- and bug-fixing.

Education and experience 

• A bachelor’s degree or higher;

• 3+ years of experience in Java (or other JVM-based) development.

• Experience in blockchain-related projects will be highly appreciated.

• Knowledge of software engineering process frameworks and software lifecycle management.

• Experience in designing software solutions.

Technical competences and qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• An excellent understanding of development and testing methodologies (test-driven approach is preferred), object-oriented programming best practices.

• Proficiency in architecture design of software systems with SOLID principles application.

• Deep knowledge of Java (or other JVM-based) language.

• Good experience of using building tools (Maven, Gradle).

• Good understanding of how JVM works.

• Experience with multi-threaded, asynchronous code.

• Good understanding of networking principles and related design (REST, gRPC etc.).

• Good understanding of database design and knowledge in SQL/NoSQL.

• High level of Git usage experience, along with related workflows.

Project technology stack

• Java 8/11, Kotlin (less used)

• Spring Core/Boot/Cloud/Data/Security/Mail

• Postgres, Liquibase

• RabbitMQ

• Hazelcast

• Hyperledger Iroha

• Docker, compose, test containers, k8s, Helm

• Influx DB

• Swagger

• Prometheus

• JUnit, Mockito, MockMvc

• Gradle

• AWS (S3, Metering Service)

• ELK

• Git

Required soft skills

• Impeccable communication and organizational skills.

• Significant attention to details.

• Maintain a positive attitude while giving and receiving constructive criticism to make improvements and take appropriate corrective actions.

• Honesty and ethic.

• Be open to changes (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

• Willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  
  

Working Conditions

• Flexible 40-hour work week.

• Permanent, full-time position.

• The international team of professionals.

• Possibility to work from offices around the globe.

• Possibility to visit global meetups and conferences for education and/or for giving a speech.

• Quarter bonuses based on productivity.

• In case of relocation to Innopolis, Russia - help with settlement process.

• Relaxed work environment.

Requirements:

• Software development experience with any language

• Experience with Linux (being able to investigate OS and application performance issues)

• Basics of Linux shell scripting (shell, bash)

• Experience with docker containers or kubernetes.

• Understanding main network protocols and principles (IP, TCP vs UDP, HTTP)

• Desire to grow as Infrastructure/Cloud/DevOps engineer (strong motivation is the key factor for being successful in this position)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and/or relevant experience

• Able to work at night  including weekends

• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

• Interpersonal and communication skills

• Business-level English (written and spoken)

Desired skills:

• Ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks simultaneously

• Demonstrable problem-solving and analytical skills

• Interpersonal and customer-facing skills, with the ability to competently discuss complex technical issues with the software, operations, and leadership teams

• CI/CD tools and practices 

• Running and managing (micro) services in a cloud e.g. AWS

• Version control systems 

• Proficient in database management (RDMS, NoSQL)

Day to Day:

• Troubleshoot and solve challenging operational issues in a complex environment.

• Supporting server instances across several Clouds.

• Work directly with developers, customers, and partners to provide unique solutions to our customer's individual needs for their application deployment.

• Build and maintain ansible playbooks, terraform files, and scripts to automate and deploy resources and configuration changes

• Drive customer communication during critical events

• Create tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the team or  customers

• Work on critical, highly complex customer incidents.

• Answer in support chat

• Monitor logs and metrics from (micro)services and servers.

Physical work hours:

• The candidate will work on a scheduled shift, (8 pm – 8 am MSK or 8 am - 8 pm MSK)

• 12 hours work and 36-hours rest

Your Responsibilities

• Build smart contracts in Solidity for the Ethereum blockchain

• Design, scope, and estimate complex contract based on requirements given

• Envision and develop features to help grow PancakeSwap

• Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team to plan projects at the task level

• Collaborate with cross functional partners on all aspects of product development

• Identify and advocate for team-wide areas of improvement and best practices

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS or equivalent experience

• Understands and applies Solidity patterns to solve common problems

• Understands gas optimization the tradeoff between efficient code and readable code

• Knows how to write migrations and deploy code to EVM-compatible networks

• Familiar with Truffle, Waffle, and Hardhat, and the pros and cons of each framework

  Specifically familiar with Hardhat as this is the framework used by PancakeSwap

• Possesses exceptional judgment, problem-solving skills, and an analytical mindset

• Understands engineering best practices such as continuous integration

• Ability to work in areas outside of your comfort zone and motivated by personal growth

• Be able to work autonomously.

• The candidate should be independent enough to make important technical decisions on their own.

• The candidate should be driven and innovative.

Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of how PancakeSwap (Exchange, Farming, Info, Voting) works.

• Experience in writing automated tests for dApp frontends.

• Ability to create testing setup from zero.

• Be able to work autonomously.

• The candidate should be independent enough to make important technical decisions on their own.

• The candidate should be driven and innovative, planning the best ways to get full test coverage of the product.

Responsibilities:

• Setup the tools needed to enable end to end testing (JS framework, local blockchain)

• Analyse our codebases and propose a test plan for each

• Write appropriate end to end tests in order to protect the product from regressions bugs

• Monitor newly released features and continually add tests for these

• Consistently plan to upgrade and improve our testing infrastructure.