Senior Blockchain Engineer - Rust/Solana

Looking for the fast paced, innovation fueled start-up life? MetaWealth is one of the most promising fintechs, present in Bucharest, London and Marbella, with a clear mission to become Europe’s top investment platform. We’re focused on exposing tokenized assets (eg: real estate) to investors and capital markets. We currently have 1500 Investors in 24 countries and over €50 million in assets under management.
Being a multi-cultural Engineering-driven organization, you will feel here best while tackling difficult DeFi challenges with heavy AI assistance for maximum efficiency.
We’re looking for a result-driven Senior Software Engineer with expertise in building scalable back-ends (microservices with GO or Node.JS, RESTful APIs, unit testing etc) that will act as a partner, own the outcome of his work, and share in the success.
Responsibilities

Understand and own the business domain and challenges we’re faced with

Create optimal domain driven architecture that will balance robustness and maintainability with the simplicity a start-up needs when accelerating

Build resilient microservices and APIs, fast.

Create or contribute to our automated deployment pipeline and observability setup

Develop, test and deploy secure and maintainable code, heavily assisted by AI

Monitor production backend systems to ensure stability and performance

Closely work with and inspire your peers (including front-end and blockchain engineers), product team and business team

Requirements

4+ years of building high-concurrency systems and APIs with GoLang (preferred) or NodeJS, using microservices and event-driven architecture.

Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Congnito, Redis, SQS etc

Proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)

Experience writing unit tests, load tests and other automated tests

Great at debugging production issues by assumption/validation, data extraction and analysis

Previous experience with Docker, K8s, GitHub Actions, Terraform

Ownership, speed, curiosity, result-driven, entrepreneurial mindset

Nice to Have

Experience integrating with or developing Solana programs (Helius, Anchor, SPL token, Token 2022, Metaplex Core)

Previous extensive integration of AI in the development flow

Experience with DeFi

Worked in the past with AWS Amplify or AWS CDK

Some front-end experience (eg: React, Redux)

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