Open Source Financial Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

This is a special role for a new initiative within the Lace engineering team, for tackling unplanned, ad-hoc, or backlogged work, as well as being a key part of improving ecosystem developer relations. Developing open source financial software, on the bleeding edge of an emerging technology sector, presents a number of challenges, including the rapid development of underlying protocols, the general pace of the Web3 space that creates time-based opportunities, and coordination with external contributors across both lower level libraries and the application itself.

In Short

• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products.
• Participate in post-incident analysis and development of corrective action plans.
• Use systematic debugging to diagnose issues within related domains.
• Foster a culture of observability and monitoring across teams.
• Interface with external developers utilizing and contributing to open source products.
• Lead the design of components and their interactions for small, unplanned improvements.
• Work from a refined backlog of technical debt reduction and lower priority bugs.
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision to complete tasks.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems.
• Write documentation and technical user manuals.

Requirements

• Experience in software engineering, particularly in open source projects.
• Strong debugging skills and familiarity with observability tools.
• Ability to work independently and manage unplanned tasks.
• Experience with Web3 technologies.
• Strong communication skills for interfacing with external developers.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology.
• Flexible working environment.
• Engagement in a collaborative and innovative team.
• Potential for professional growth in the Web3 space.