About the company
CoinAlpha, founded in 2017, is a FinTech software engineering company specializing in trading software and services for digital assets, combining expertise in data engineering, machine learning, and blockchain engineering to create trading solutions that empower companies to take control of their token liquidity. CoinAlpha created Hummingbot, the leading open source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots. In addition, CoinAlpha operates Hummingbot Miner, the successful liquidity mining platform for centralized exchanges. Hummingbot Miner lets users of the open source Hummingbot software earn rewards from projects - such as Algorand, Solana, and AscendEx - by running market making bots on certain trading pairs. CoinAlpha invented the concept of liquidity mining in a 2019 whitepaper. Having started the company in 2017 as a quantitative hedge fund, CoinAlpha’s founders combine 22 years of experience in investment banking and trading at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan with engineering and product leadership roles at Silicon Valley companies like Apple and Nitro. CoinAlpha has raised a total of $13.6 million from Initialized Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, 1kx Capital, Borderless Capital, Ironfire Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund, and other funds and angels.
Job Summary
We are looking for a dev-ops engineer who will apply his/her experience, best practices, and pull out all stops to keep our Hummingbot Liquidity Mining systems running and scaling up smoothly, to keep up with explosive user and trading volume growth.
What you'll be doing:
Design and set up real-time monitoring metrics, logging and alerts for liquidity mining and trading related backend systems Work closely with backend engineering team to ensure sufficient test coverage Propose and discuss improvements and changes to backend systems on reliability, security and scalability aspects Be part of the core team and make a significant impact in a fast-growing, VC-backed blockchain startup
You're a great fit if you have / are:
Fluent in Python with prior experience in building and maintaining Python backend applications. Experience in managing large scale, mission critical backend systems Knowledge in common backend technologies like AWS, Kafka, MySQL, Kubernetes, etc. Knowledge in logging and metric systems like Datadog, ELK, Splunk, etc. Knowledge in common unit testing frameworks like pytest and nosetests Good sense in how to maintain the security and reliability backend systems Good communication skills and fluent in both written and spoken English Proactive - propose and implement solutions rather than wait for down time or disasters to happen *Perks at Hummingbot: * Become a core member of an experienced Silicon Valley-based team that is well-connected in crypto, blockchain and machine learning Join a remote-first, engineering-driven team with 30+ team members across 6 continents Competitive salaries Work hard, have fun culture International travel for conferences, team meet-ups/retreats Work schedule flexibility; unlimited vacation policy
