Backend Engineer

About the role

Backend Engineers at Iron Fish work cross-functionally—collaborating with designers, leadership, and other engineers to design features and break down high-level goals into tasks and timelines. This role is perfect for someone excited to work on uncharted territory in decentralized networks and cutting edge cryptography.

Why Iron Fish?

We promise you will be challenged, and always learning. This project involves distributed systems, some heavy-duty cryptography, UI/UX challenges of simplifying complex information, and more. You will build tools that help bring equality to the global economy, so that everyone has access to complete financial sovereignty. We value kindness, curiosity, and the willingness to learn and to teach.

What you’ll do

As an engineer in a fast growing company, the day-to-day may vary. But here is some of what you can expect to do:

• Build, document and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure
• Communicate and document architectural designs and requirements
• Write high quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers

What we are looking for

Below are just some examples of what your background may look like—go ahead and apply even if your experience is a little different.

• Written production-level code in Node, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Rust
• Worked in at least one of our focus areas:
  • Cryptocurrency architecture development
  • Web and/or Electron application development
  • P2P application development
  • Security

Nice to haves

• You’ve worked with Electron, Rust, Kubernetes, Indexdb
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc..)
• You are interested in world economies or what it takes to build a global currency