Backend Engineer - Golang

About Luxor

Luxor is the leading software and services provider for Bitcoin miners and the broader compute industry. Our full-stack platform supports gigawatts of compute infrastructure, giving operators the tools to monetize their compute, optimize and trade hardware, access financial instruments, and manage energy.

We believe that compute power is becoming the world’s next major commodity and our products are built to support this shift. Our goal is to become the leaders in harnessing, refining, and trading compute, unlocking a new asset class for the world’s most important digital resource.

As Luxor continues to scale rapidly across software, hardware, financial, energy and cloud infrastructure products, every team member has the opportunity to shape mission-critical systems, influence company-wide strategy, and contribute directly to the future of the compute economy.

Role description

You will develop the technical design for either cloud or on-premises solutions. Also, influence designs across R&D using original research and advanced analysis. You’ll design solutions for business critical and highly complex engineering projects by applying extensive domain expertise in performance testing. You’ll provide oversight of code and design reviews, and ensure features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements.

Our teams own mission-critical aspects of a rapidly growing, globally distributed platform (eg: Hashrate Marketplace and many unique mining pools), in the cloud, and, as such, you will have an incredible amount of impact on the current state and future direction of our product, with visibility throughout the organization and a significant opportunity to take ownership.

This role will report directly to the CTO. This is a remote role.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate during the product design phases, analyzing requirements, and proposing innovative and alternative solutions.
• Collaborate on architecture definitions, always thinking of solutions that are scalable and secure.
• Develop quality code, with emphasis on correctness of the implementation.
• Collaborate in the evolutionary maintenance of the product.
• Design, document, automate and execute test plans.
• Participate in the process of generating and analyzing features.

Basic Requirements:

• To have broad and deep knowledge, including unique expertise. Considered a true expert and sought out for technical guidance on a wide variety of topics.
• Solid knowledge of Database technologies such as SQL, PL/pgSQL, and relational database schema design.
• To understand architectural principles; expert level in software engineering.
• Experience developing and tuning highly available server-side applications.
• Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of programming and experience with at least one programming language (Golang preferred).
• To understand REST APIs and general API design.
• English language proficiency.

Preferred Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology / mining pool industry.
• Experience with agile development methodology.
• Experience building highly scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience delivering and owning web-scale data systems in production.
• Experience working with certificates.
• Knowledge of GCP, Kubernetes, Docker and Postgres.
• Experience working with remote teams.

The ideal candidate:

• Passionate about cryptocurrency and public-blockchain technologies.
• Has an interest in creating an entirely new market with Hashrate (compute power) as a commodity.
• Has an interest in thinking and evolving the architecture of our software to make it robust and maintainable.
• Enjoys writing code and pushing boundaries of what has been done so far.
• Brings fun to the team but can also go down the rabbit hole to push quality code on schedule.

At Luxor we believe that meaningful contributions can be made by anyone. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Luxor welcomes all!

Luxor does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Luxor will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Luxor.