Software Engineer

Birthday Research

Birthday Research (BR) is our Blockchain Research and Development arm. Fuelled by the best minds in the industry, BR seeks to develop best-in-class blockchain innovations with the mission of enabling the next bound of Web3.

As a pioneering force, our work spans cryptographic research, deep blockchain consensus development, and smart contracts development — with a laser-sharp focus on driving the industry frontier while tackling the most demanding DeFi challenges of today. To date, one of our core contributions, DeFiChain, has garnered over 1 billion USD in total value locked on the layer-1 protocol.

We are a fast-growing, globally distributed, close-knit team of multi-disciplinary doers and getters. Join Birthday Research today to be a part of the driving force shaping the future of decentralization.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product designers, and managers to design and develop TypeScript based applications using React, React Native, Next.js and/or Node.js.
• Write highly performant codes that are clean, simple, maintainable, and battle-tested with test-driven development (TDD) for maximum test coverage automated from pull request all the way to release.
• Take on active responsibility in creating highly scalable UI Components and/or backend modules for our scaling needs.
• Develop and maintain a product lifecycle from start to finish
• Write effective REST API server in with express or NestJS
• Work with SQL databases like PostgreSQL with Prisma or TypeORM

What you’ll need:

• Experience working in a fast pace tech-driven startup as a Software Engineer with at least 4 years of experience or in a similar capacity.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript with experience working in Web, Node, or Mobile technologies.
• Experience with server-side Javascript frameworks such as express.js or NestJS.
• Ability to take full ownership and work independently while collaborating with others in a fast-paced agile and async team.
• A collaborative and resourceful individual with excellent communication skills able to make radical decisions while being empathetic and respectful.
• Willingness to pick up new and emerging bleeding edge blockchain technologies.
• Deep technical understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptography, BIPs, DeFi, UTXO, EVM, or Nakamoto Consensus is highly preferred.
• Experience participating or maintaining in open source software development is highly preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience deploying with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Experience with containerized technologies such as Docker