Senior Back End Engineer, Explorer

Blockchain.com is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible, and fair financial future—one piece of software at a time.

We are looking for a proactive, thorough Senior Back End Engineer to help build the next generation of Blockchain Explorers. You will play a critical role building explorer related APIs such as blockchain indexers and its related tools, integrating with 3rd parties and creating many other components related to the explorer ecosystem. Ultimately, you should be able to adapt quickly to meet the needs of our fast growth and the rapidly evolving crypto ecosystem.

As a Senior Back-End engineer you must be able to build testable, scalable systems, drive technical discussions and make a positive impact on the team's development by advocating the best engineering practices.

Our development team tackles some of the most interesting problems in the crypto space while rapidly and securely scaling a distributed platform that touches millions of people every day. We want you to join us!

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Build systems to support new blockchains in our explorer
• Ingest and process blockchain data
• Integrate with 3rd party software
• Build scalable API for our Front-end to consume
• Contribute to existing services
  
  

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• You are highly motivated, self-driven, passionate about crypto currencies,
• You find your way around when confronted to a novel problem not many people faced before,
• You take full responsibility for all the projects you work in
• Real world experience with Blockchains
• Deep understanding of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms (PoW/PoS), and data structures (blocks, transactions, Merkle trees).
• Experience parsing blockchain data (e.g., parsing Bitcoin/Ethereum blocks, querying nodes, or using APIs like Etherscan/Blockchair)
• Strong grasp of REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems design
  
  

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Competitive full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an exciting, emerging industry.
• Performance-based bonuses
• Apple equipment provided by the company
• Hybrid role from our office in Palermo, four days per week in the office.
• Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
  
  

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