Senior Full Stack Engineer

Our Mission

Orbital is on an exciting mission to revolutionize global cross-border payments by innovatively combining traditional fiat banking rails with stablecoins over blockchain rails for a variety of use cases. Our class-leading B2B payments platform offers multi-currency e-money accounts (corporate IBANs) combined with a suite of digital assets services. Our company sits at the frontier of payments & fintech, by intersecting blockchain and traditional (fiat) financial services, and is leading the way to bridging those two worlds for corporate enterprises globally.

Role Purpose

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are comfortable with Amazon Web Services (AWS), microservice architecture and ideally with previous Software as a Service (“SaaS”) experience. You will be responsible for a full software development cycle: Design => Develop => Test => Deploy => Operate => Support. We have dedicated DevOps and QA, but we are looking for someone that has a strong experience of understanding the full cycle and who can deliver end to end. Have good exposure to TDD and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable and reliable code
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Develop new user-facing features as well as APIs
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Skills and Qualifications

• Degree level education in Computer Science, Network Technologies or similar field
• Previous Backend Engineer experience, ideally within the FinTech/blockchain sector
• Strong experience in Software Engineering
• Experienced in TypeScript, JavaScript ES6+
• Server-side development experience e.g. Node.js
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Proficiency with SQL/NoSQL (Preferably MongoDB and DynamoDB)
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix administration
• Familiarity with AWS cloud platform (Preferably Lambda, EC2, EB, IAM, SQS, SNS, CI & CD, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudFormation, S3, EventBridge, EventBus)
• Excellent understanding of microservice architecture, serverless
• Version control best practices using Git
• Experience working in an Agile delivery team

Why Join Us

• Be part of a cutting-edge company at the forefront of the cryptocurrency payments revolution
• Lead groundbreaking research that shapes the future of payments
• Collaborate with a passionate and talented team dedicated to innovation and excellence
• Enjoy a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including shares, bonus, and more (additional benefits vary depending on the location)

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