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Principal Backend Engineer

ParadigmOnsite

At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, you’ll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets. 

About Paradigm


  • Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. 
  • We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy. 
  • We’ve built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month.
  • We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry!
  • We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Genesis Trading, Dragonfly Capital, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.

Your mission


As a key player on our backend team, you'll drive the development of major features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams across the company. You'll be at the forefront of creating customer-focused solutions, working in cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features. Additionally, you'll contribute to projects that enhance our platform’s reliability, scalability, and performance, ensuring we stay ahead in the industry.

What You'll Do


  • Build & Innovate: Develop secure and scalable web services & systems that power high-speed trading and real-time market data.
  • Enhance & Support: Ensure our customers have stable access to our products both by crafting robust systems and fixing them when there are production issues.
  • Collaborate & Lead: Drive the evolution of our platform, in collaboration with cross functional partners.

What You Bring


  • Expertise: 8+ years in backend engineering, strong in Python/Golang, databases, and distributed systems.
  • Microservices Mastery: Skilled in scaling microservices, with experience in websocket architecture.
  • Leadership: Proven team-building and technical leadership skills, with a passion for learning new tech.
  • Advanced Systems: Experience with Kafka, Redis, AWS and/or Kubernetes.

Your Perks & Benefits


  • Competitive Pay: Top-tier compensation in the industry.
  • Generous PTO: Unlimited vacation.
  • Full Benefits: Comprehensive packages tailored by country.
  • Technology & Learning Allowances: 3,500 USD for your first-year setup, $2,000 USD refresh every 2 years, plus $1,000 USD annually for learning and development.

Paradigm is an equal opportunity employer.

Life at Paradigm

Paradigm is the industry leader in solving complex health care challenges and improving lives for injured workers. For almost 30 years, we've set the standard for outcomes-focused care for workers compensation cases involving the most challenging catastrophic injuries. With the most connected and experienced team in health care, Paradigm defines and delivers outcomes that exceed financial and health expectations for our clients, as well as for individuals and their families. With a mission to help as many people as possible, we work to restore an injured worker's health, their spirit, and their hope for a brighter future. At Paradigm, the ultimate measure of our success is whether we help an injured worker and their family live a better life. That's because we know that when we focus on the patient, we deliver better value for our clients as well. Paradigm extends our reach with an expanded range of innovative services that bring an expert-rich and outcomes-driven approach to a broad spectrum of complex care cases. We deliver these solutions through our Paradigm's three divisions: Catastrophic Care Management offers guaranteed outcomes for life-changing injuries at a fixed price, leveraging unparalleled catastrophic injury experience, clinical experts and data. Complex Care Solutions achieves cost-saving results for cases involving complex injuries through a broad and unique set of products and services. Specialty Networks delivers outcome-focused networks that address the most challenging, expensive and unmanaged segments of care: orthopedic and spine surgery, pain management, addiction recovery, and post-acute care. Follow us at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ParadigmCorporate Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParadigmSays YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ParadigmOutcomes
Thrive Here & What We Value• Flexible work environment• Unlimited vacation with minimum 10 days PTO annually• Competitive pay and transparent pay bands• Equal opportunity employer• Diverse, global team led by organizational principles• Missiondriven to bring on-demand liquidity for traders without compromises• Backed by top traders and investors in the space• Celebrate national holidays, floating holiday honors

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