About Coin Metrics

Coin Metrics is the leading provider of crypto financial intelligence, offering network data, market data, indexes and network risk solutions to a wide range of market participants and observers . Since 2017, we have served the industry by offering granular data and insight dashboards that surface both blockchain and market trends. Our aim is to help builders as well as investors create new and sophisticated markets that are transforming how the world understands value. Our service is unique, our history is deep, and our market position gives us a front-row seat into the evolution of not just a new industry, but also its impact on global finance.

Coin Metrics puts unparalleled insight and accuracy into crypto data and analytics so that companies can accelerate value creation and minimize risk. Just as crypto markets are expanding, so are we. If the below job description sounds like it was written for you, get in touch!

YOUR PURPOSE

Coin Metrics is seeking  an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team to assist in developing our product offerings. This person will serve as a vital member of the engineering staff and work to build reliable software architecture solutions to be used across the organization. The Platform team owns the common components needed for other teams to build their solutions as well as the API interface used to expose CM Products & data. An ideal candidate has a deep knowledge of Kotlin and/or Java and is also experienced with diagnosing and resolving issues related to memory allocation, high performance threading and coroutines.

If you are passionate about digital assets and data-driven solutions and have a knack for building code using Kotlin, Java and Python, we would love to hear from you.

YOUR VALUE

• Building distributed, reliable, and performant software architectures using Kotlin
• Maintaining & developing our Python API Client and other Python system components
• Ability and willingness to learn new programming languages as needed
• Leading the development of a new Coin Metrics' product that exposes metrics via API;
• Working closely with network data and market data experts to build the product;
• Depth testing of your code;
• Developing our API;
• Developing flat files offerings;
• Developing various additional methods for delivering our data to clients; 
• Working on special data delivery projects; 
• Scaling and capacity planning.

YOUR EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience in a backend software engineering role or equivalent
• Proficiency in Kotlin/Java (Kotlin preferred) specially in areas of memory allocation, high performance threading models and coroutines
• Proficiency in Python
• Proficiency in SQL (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Understanding of how blockchains operate and their underlying data structures 
• Experience with Docker, GitLab CI, Gradle, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, Grafana, Linux
• Strong sense of ownership, entrepreneurial spirit, and/or startup-like experience, capable of driving towards solutions independently while seeking feedback when appropriate
• Passionate about being a part of a decentralized financial services future with advanced  knowledge of cryptoassets and blockchain technology