Senior Software Engineer, CoinDesk Indices (Remote - LATAM)

About CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk Indices (CDI) is a subsidiary of CoinDesk that has been the leading provider of digital asset indices by AUM (Assets Under Management) since 2014. CDI focuses on precision, rigor, research, and educating the marketplace and empowering investors. CoinDesk is a trusted and influential media, events, data, and indices company in the global crypto ecosystem.

CDI has three main product lines: single-asset reference indices, broad market and sector indices, and systematic strategy indices. The CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (XBX) is the longest-standing index and is used in the world's largest digital asset products. CDI's broad market and sector indices offer comprehensive benchmarks, and their investible sectors are created using CDI's industry-adopted taxonomy. CDI's systematic strategy indices help investors target specific outcomes.

About the Senior Software Engineer Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the CDI Engineering team, your responsibility will be to design, build, and test new and existing features on the Core Platform that supports the CDI business. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Governance, Product, and Sales teams to deliver on the technical roadmap and ensure that the backend services maintain high performance and scalability. As CDI's products are used by clients to inform their investment strategies, platform security and reliability are critical.

We are looking for self-motivated teammates who are passionate about code quality and excited to contribute to our mission, even if you are new to the crypto industry. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, implement, and maintain backend features using Python/NodeJS.
• Collaborate with Product, Governance, and Sales teams to deliver on the product roadmap.
• Define backend requirements for tools that enhance the analysis, reporting, and display of indices data.
• Collaborate with software architects and technical leads to ensure decisions prioritize future scalability and reliability.
• Build infrastructure components that optimize the developer experience and platform performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, and implement solutions.
• Contribute technical documentation related to software architecture, coding frameworks, components, and technical decisions.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Mentor fellow engineering teammates.

About You

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, working on distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency and demonstrated experience in the following technologies: Python, Java and/or C++, SQL, NoSQL, cloud-based development (ECS, Lambda), third-party tools (Kafka, Redis), web services/API layer (REST/JSON), build/dev tools (Docker, Git).
• Bonus points for familiarity with modern front-end technologies and frameworks like React/NextJs.
• Experience in DevOps methodologies, including Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Trunk Based Development.
• Well-versed in Agile Methodologies and previous experience working in a Scrum environment.
• Strong ownership, accountability, and efficient verbal and written communication skills.
• Full professional proficiency in English is required.

Equal Opportunity Statement

CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees with respect and in a nondiscriminatory manner. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion or belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status/service, physical or mental disability, or any other protected classification under applicable law. This commitment governs all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, promotion, training, compensation, discipline, termination, and benefits.

For more information on our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, please visit: https://www.coindesk.com/dei/.

Accommodation

CoinDesk is also dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process, please email accomodations@coindesk.com and let us know the nature of your request.

Please note that only CoinDesk's Talent Acquisition team will contact you directly regarding opportunities at CoinDesk. Disregard emails from any other addresses or persons. If you move forward in our hiring process, a team member will guide you through the interview process. We look forward to connecting!