What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for a highly skilled and expert Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team at Circle. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a meaningful role in developing various services on our wallet infrastructure and maintaining the underlying code.

What you'll work on:

Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to solve problems and identify areas for improvement
Builds services, APIs, and SDKs which align with data protection standards and aid in the implementation of protection controls for other developers
Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes
Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future
Conduct whitebox tests and optimize performance
Participate in conferences and educational programs
Follow new and emerging technologies and provide training, help, and support to other team members
Taking the lead on projects, as needed

You will aspire to our four core values:

Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.
Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals.
High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards. You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

4 years minimum professional software development experience in object-oriented languages like Go
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a closely related field.
Familiar with the Golang Web Framework like Gin, Fasthttps and know the Golang develop related tools like go mod, go lint, etc
Familiar with database operations like MySQL, Postgresql, NoSql, etc. And understand how to use raw commands to operate databases
Familiar with unit test development and looking for high-quality coding
Strong understanding of the microservices development cycle and programming techniques and tools
Familiar with cryptography would be a plus
Excellent project and time management skills
Excellent communication skills (in both English and Mandarin), able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively.
Self-starter, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision.
Led teams (2-4) technically on architecture and system design

We also prefer but don’t require

Experience developing REST APIs
Amazon AWS certifications such as DevOps and/or Solutions Architect Associate/Pro levels
Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Vue.js.

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