Staff Software Engineer (PHP), Platform needed at Paxful, Inc

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer is a seasoned professional with at least 10 years of experience in software development. Specialized in finance or crypto within the technology industry, this individual excels in leading problem-solving, driving coding excellence, ensuring comprehensive testing, and adopting scalable and secure software implementations for solutions in areas like trading, swapping, regulatory compliance, fraud detection, automation, and more.

Paxful is a people-powered marketplace for moving money from anywhere, to anyone. With over 12 million users across 170+ countries, Paxful offers access to crypto and local currencies using more than 450 payment methods.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote work environment
• Flexible working hours with a 4-hour overlap in Eastern Time (EST)
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies on impactful projects
• Collaborative, innovative, and supportive work culture
• Opportunity to mentor and lead a team of talented engineers
• Professional growth and development opportunities

Key Responsibilities

• Write production-ready, testable, and clear documented code, and handle edge cases.
• Understand team development approach, identify gaps, and recommend solutions.
• Maintain expertise in the team’s domain areas, its services, interactions, and data flows.
• Utilize design patterns for scalable applications, anticipating future changes.
• Perform systematic debugging within the domain.
• Ensure epics and projects are broken down, prioritized, and understood by the team.
• Communicate clearly with other teams, fostering effective and targeted communication.
• Promote documentation and knowledge sharing within the team and with stakeholders.

Requirements

• Solid track record of over 10 years demonstrating mastery of PHP, mainly in production backend applications.
• Solid experience in administration, modeling, optimization techniques in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated proficiency in working with third-party software integration using industry protocols like SOAP, REST, RPC, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
• Proven knowledge in processing queues such as Apache Kafka, or RabbitMQ, or standards like AMQP.
• Expertise in utilizing in-memory databases like Redis and Memcached.
• Understanding of Git and branching models for coordination with team members.
• Past experience within the fintech sector, or understanding of financial regulations, compliance, and security best practices.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in financial technology contexts.
• Ability to manage, coordinate, and prioritize work with multiple team members for delivering software with quality in time.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other departments.
• Able to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be located in the Americas or Europe (between time zones UTC-5 and UTC+3).