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Job description
Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.
Responsibilities
- Build software enterprise-ready infrastructure for an open payment protocol for the Internet.
- Build new software financial systems, services, and processes accessible to everyone.
- Design, build, scale, and maintain production services.
- Build a deep understanding of the business and collaborate with the community to make core protocol and implementation improvements.
- Create a rich services layer to serve the next set of users and use cases bringing Lightning to mass adoption.
- Build software frameworks to collect and deeply analyze internal data for the purposes of solution improvement.
- Extend Lightning via advanced functionality that solves the next wave of complex problems and introduces the company to broader audiences.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 3 years as a Backend Engineer or related occupation.
- Alternatively, in lieu of a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 3 years as a Backend Engineer or related occupation, employer will accept 7 years of experience as a Backend Engineer or related occupation.
- Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
- 3 years of experience in the following:
- Infrastructure or back-end engineering;
- Utilizing one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, or C/C++;
- Developing software solutions for Blockchain technologies;
- Developing software applications for the Bitcoin Blockchain;
- Writing high quality and well tested code;
- Complex systems design and implementation;
- Communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams;
- Using data to influence decisions;
- Off-the-shelf coding and deployment solutions (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS).
About Lightspark
Lightspark is a Bitcoin-focused fintech company building software and APIs to enable instant, low-cost global payments using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and its own Layer 2 solution called Spark. It allows sending and receiving fiat, stablecoins, or bitcoin in real-time via simple developer tools. Founded by David Marcus in 2022, it raised $175 million to promote mainstream Bitcoin adoption for money transfers.