My client in the Blockchain industry is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to be based in their New York City office. They are building a leading blockchain platform that will positively change the cryptocurrency space and alter the future of technology.

You will be responsible for designing and developing their distributed-systems products and platforms. Their software is built using C#. In this position, you will work in every layer of the service tier (transports, messaging, framework, data persistence, business logic) and develop a rich understanding of both the system mechanisms and the application business domains.

Start Date: ASAP
Salary: $160-190k DOE plus excellent benefits, package and PTO.
Location: Manhattan, New York City

Responsibilities:

• Be part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team focused on delivering world-class industrial-strength distributed-systems software.
• Possess Management capabilities, as well as experience building an engineering team.
• Write in C++, C#/.NET to build and enhance our product offerings.
• Work with other developers, test engineers, and project managers to develop and deliver software products and solution implementations.
• Contribute to the evolution and enhancement of both our trading venue and blockchain platform product lines.
• Participate in solution development/delivery, using our products and platforms.
• Leverage Agile practices.
• Analyze, design, code, and test software elements.
• Prepare technical documentation and diagrams.
• Cultivate expertise in relevant aspects of target business domains and apply that knowledge to maximize technology value.
• Assist project and product leaders in making risk-managed planning and release decisions.

Required Skills and Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in C++ and C#/.NET.
• Experience working within Linux environments.
• Experience building, leading and managing a team of Engineers.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to work with multi-threading and concurrency
• Able to demonstrate knowledge with micro services and distributed architectures.
• Experience working with low level communications, TCP, UDP, streaming I/O.
• Able to demonstrate a deep knowledge base of Software Testing including Unit, Integration, System and Acceptance.
• Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in writing and interpreting documentation, as well as software/architecture diagrams.
• Able to demonstrate strong knowledge base of CLR, memory management and performance optimization.

Pluses:

• Knowledge of CI (Continuous Integration) and Node.JS
• Experience as an engineer within the trading systems, financial accounting, payment systems and/or post-trade system industry is preferred.
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm about the cryptocurrency/blockchain space.