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Senior Backend Engineer

Lightspark

Job Description

Lightspark is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team in Culver City, California. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining our production services. You will work closely with the community to enhance the Lightning Network protocol and implementations, creating a rich services layer to serve the next set of users and use cases, and bringing Lightning to mass adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, scale, and maintain production services.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the Lightning Network and collaborate with the community to improve core protocols and implementations.
  • Create a rich services layer to serve new users and use cases, facilitating the mass adoption of Lightning.
  • Build frameworks to collect and analyze Lightning data for solution improvement.
  • Extend Lightning with advanced functionality to solve complex problems and introduce it to broader audiences.
  • Collaborate in a highly collaborative environment to learn and grow.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or back-end engineering.
  • Proven experience in writing high-quality, well-tested code.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams.
  • A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is ideal but not required.
  • Experience using data to influence decisions.
  • Familiarity with off-the-shelf coding/deployment solutions such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Rust, C, C++ is preferred.

About Lightspark

Lightspark is the easiest, low-cost, most reliable, enterprise-grade way to send and receive payments globally, enabling money to move just like bits and bytes do on the Internet. We are committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission.

Compensation

  • Salary range: $200,000 - $230,000 per year.

Join us in our mission to build an open payment protocol for the Internet at scale and help businesses around the world benefit from real-time payments and build amazing new experiences for themselves and their customers.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

  • Inclusive and diverse workplace
  • Opportunities for growth and learning

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