About us:

Avara builds innovative products leveraging blockchain technologies. Avara’s suite includes the Aave Protocol, along with the native stablecoin GHO, Lens, an open social network, and Family, a design-first mobile crypto wallet. Avara’s vision is to build a people-powered internet that benefits all.

Our culture:

Having cultivated a thriving, collaborative culture, our team is kind, welcoming and passionate about what we are building. We celebrate differences and seek to develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool from all over the world. No matter where you are based, no ghost will be left behind and we appreciate every moment we get to work and have fun together.

About the Role:

As a Principal Engineer at Avara, you will lead the design and implementation of regulated payments infrastructure. Your expertise will enable seamless money movement and high-conversion payment acceptance across Avara’s products and partner ecosystem. Together, we will build bridges, remove toll booths, and increase financial access for billions of people.

How you can make an impact:

• Oversee the end-to-end process of designing, implementing, and deploying regulated payments infrastructure
• Ask questions, uncover edge cases, and tend to our documentation
• Go fast, be agile, but also know when to slow down. As a regulated payments business, we need to take some decisions slowly in order to design for zero-defects and massive scale
• Obsess over transaction processing speed and clear communication with Customers. This is how we build trust.
• Maintain short feedback cycles through communicating priorities, failing forward, and learn as a team

Let’s connect if:

• Minimum of 3 years in a Staff or Principal Engineering role, with a strong preference for experience in Fintech and Payments
• Advanced proficiency in TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, Restful and distributed backend system design
• Solid grasp of transaction processing and ledgering and asynchronous risk monitoring
• Experience building mission critical, API-first, services in a production environment for enterprise-scale customers
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Driven by the opportunity to make decentralized finance the backbone of fintech and to contribute meaningfully to its practical application in the real world

Haven’t quite met all the criteria? Let’s not miss out on the chance to speak. Whilst you might not meet every single requirement, you might bring other, more exciting skills to the companies!

Equal opportunity statement:

Avara celebrates diversity and view each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Avara.

As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone’s potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.

About Twinstake

Twinstake is a leading institutional staking provider which offers unrivalled knowledge and experience of the institutional market from on our founding heritage coupled with deep crypto expertise and technology from our team of core devs and industry veterans.

We stand out in:

• Compliance and Risk Mitigation
• Non-custodial Solution
• Enhanced Reporting and Data
• Optimised Performance
• Premier Service

About the role

We are seeking a back-end software engineer for our platform team who is passionate about developing robust and scalable back-end systems. This role is pivotal in building and maintaining the technological backbone of our services, including API development, database management, and CI/CD processes. Your expertise will ensure our platform’s reliability, performance, and alignment with our compliance and risk mitigation strategies.

What you’re good at:

• Design and implement back-end services, including APIs, microservices, and database schemas, to support front-end applications and enhance user experience
• Lead the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and ensure high-quality code releases
• Manage database migrations and optimizations to ensure data integrity, performance, and scalability
• Collaborate with front-end developers and product managers to define and meet project requirements, creating a seamless workflow between back-end and front-end components
• Advocate for and implement best practices in back-end development, including code reviews, testing, and security measures
• Participate in the planning and execution of DevOps strategies, working towards improving infrastructure automation and monitoring
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems, ensuring they meet the latest security and technology standards
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and methodologies in back-end development, CI/CD, DevOps, and the crypto industry to continuously improve our platform

What you bring:

• Proven experience as a back-end developer, with a strong background in developing scalable and secure web applications
• Experience in the crypto industry with an understanding of blockchain technologies and ideally staking mechanisms
• Expertise in back-end languages and frameworks, Python preferred but will also consider other technologies (e.g. Java)
• Solid experience with database design, management, and migration strategies for relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions
• A strong understanding of API development principles and experience building RESTful services
• Interest in DevOps practices and experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible) is highly desirable
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

What makes you stand out:

• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in the software development community
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

What we offer:

• Exposure to innovative technologies in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
• Great internal growth and development
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks
• Flexible hybrid working