VP of Engineering (Hands on) – ZKX
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ZKX (11-50 Employees, 2 Yr Employee Growth Rate)
1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $0 Venture Funding
What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?
Description
ZKX is the first permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet. We’re building a decentralized exchange that lets users trade derivatives using reward mechanisms, liquidity provisioning, and simplified access to complex trading strategies. We’re passionate about democratizing access to global yields so anyone can invest in them.
You can read more about our vision, what we’re building, and our roadmap here.
We’re backed by well-known venture funds in the ecosystem. By joining us, you have the opportunity to work with a global team and the chance to shape the future at ZKX.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-load decentralized services architecture and its ecosystem
- Maintain and optimize existing codebase
- Test coverage
- Architecture design
- API design
- Participate in solving problems and incidents in high-load systems
- Integration with external services
Our stack
- Node.js
- GO
- Typescript
- MongoDB
Requirements
- Commercial experience in the development of Backend services and microservices
- (high load and decentralised) is a MUST
- Commercial Node.js/GO lang development experience (5+ years)
- Commercial experience in high-load applications design and development
- Commercial experience in developing decentralized applications
- Excellent knowledge of object-oriented development
- Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture, Microservice Architecture
- Experience in building complex RESTful APIs
- Test Driven Development – TDD, CI / CD
- Experience in agile/scrum methodology
- Understanding of the engineering principles of developing robust applications,
- practical application of methodologies, algorithms
- Experience of blockchain technology
- Background in a high growth start-up or scale-up
Benefits
- Global Team – Work with a team with extensive experience across venture building, technology scale-ups, and financial derivatives structuring in 10+ countries across the planet.
- Team Culture – We value your expertise in work! While we are remote-first, we believe in building culture and meet IRL every couple months for team Boot Camp.
- Life@ZKX – Opportunity to travel the world, work with a talented team and connect with key people in the industry.
- Free Professional Coaching – To feel stuck, lose the sense of direction, happens to the best of us and a perspective may be all that we need to get back on track.
- Financial Incentives – Competitive salary, token package, and high-performance incentives.
- Gym Membership – Startups are demanding and we understand the importance of keeping good health and staying in shape.
We’re working to address some of the core problems in DeFi and are proud to be creating new fundamentals for the ecosystem. We constantly challenge ourselves, value transparency and trust, and love what we do.
Join us in delivering DeFi as it’s meant to be!