BitMEX is the world’s leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, which has pioneered cryptocurrency trading through relentless commitment to change, and continues to set benchmarks for innovation, liquidity, and security today.
As the world's most advanced peer-to-peer crypto-products trading platform and API, BitMEX gives knowledge, confidence, and precision to hundreds of thousands of traders, transacting billions of USD a day.
About Us
BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”.
Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 11 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30 different cryptocurrencies.
In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances."
For more information on BitMEX, company initiatives, product listings, launches and competitions, please visit the BitMEX Blog or www.bitmex.com, and follow our Discord, Telegram and Twitter.
Overview
As a Senior React Engineer at BitMEX, you are an engineer with experience in design and implementation of fast, real-time web applications. The BitMEX platform is written with React.JS and carefully tuned for performance. If you're right for this role, you have experience either working on a trading platform or are a user of a derivatives exchange yourself, BitMEX or a competitor, have a strong desire to work in the bitcoin space, have significant professional experience with React and a passion to grow as an engineer on this platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Development of the BitMEX Web Frontend and React Native components
- Work independently, cross team / cross skillset to deliver products to end users
- New feature design and implementation, bug fixing, and performance tuning
- Working closely with the API and Engine teams to integrate new features and unique consumer-facing products
- Mentoring other engineers on coding practices, design philosophies, and engineering craft
- Exploring and evaluating new stack components and architecture ideas as necessary
- Regularly reviewing code
Requirements
- Intimate experience with JS and JS performance characteristics
- Experience with NodeJS, React, and Flux architecture
- Experience with Jest, Flow, Webpack, Make, and Sass a plus
- Experience making complex, data-driven products accessible to consumers
- Ability to simultaneously develop several products and concepts in development
- Familiarity with current UX trends and curiosity for new UX concepts (conversational UI, etc)
- Experience with trading derivatives products, preferably bitcoin derivatives
- Understanding of Bitcoin’s value proposition, willingness to be paid in bitcoin
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