Blockchain Engineer

Purpose of the job:

As a Blockchain Engineer at VALR, your primary purpose is to design, develop, and maintain blockchain-based systems to ensure the security, efficiency, and scalability of VALR’s platform. You will be instrumental in driving innovation, implementing best practices, and optimizing performance within our blockchain infrastructure.

What will you be doing:

Build, improve and maintain containerised clusters of blockchain daemons/consensus nodes in a scalable and highly redundant way

Develop and deploy NodeJS workers, within VALR’s infrastructure, that interface with blockchain nodes’ HTTP or Websocket interfaces
Implement robust monitoring tools to control the stability of VALR’s blockchain infrastructure using Grafana and Prometheus
Subscribe to relevant Discord, Telegram and Github channels and maintain healthy relationships with the web3 community as a way to quickly solve problems with Blockchain node execution
What we look for in you:

Skills relevant to the job include the education and/or experience, specialised training, and competencies required.

Formal software engineering qualification not essential but rather in-depth background and experience in software engineering
Practical experience is more relevant than a formal qualification
Proficiency in management and maintenance of cloud infrastructure
Experience with running Docker containers
Strong passion for cryptocurrencies and the technology that underpins it
Advanced NodeJS skills
Ability to quickly learn new technologies
Advanced understanding of security principles and practices
Previous experience in interacting with blockchain nodes (ie. Bitcoin, Ethereum) is an added advantage
Previous experience in using Google Cloud Platform is a plus
Some Kubernetes experience
Typescript and Solidity skills is a nice-to-have
Other technologies of interest: Message queues (RabbitMQ), Monitoring Tools (Grafana, Prometheus)
What can you expect from VALR:

Competitive salary: Get paid well to work in an exciting industry.
Leave: Compliance with statutory leave required by individual countries, in addition to flexible leave.
Remote work: Work from wherever you like – Employees to ensure that there is secure, stable internet connectivity in order to effectively work remotely.
Home office setup: Mac laptop and a discretionary allowance to buy all the extras needed to work happily from home – all of it yours to keep after 3 years. Terms and Conditions will apply.
Learning fund: An annual upskilling budget of R16,000 per employee, which will be converted to the respective currency of the employee’s payment, in addition to scheduled VALR training.
Performance bonus: When you contribute to VALR’s success, you’ll be rewarded with discretionary bonuses.
Regular get-togethers outside of work.
Annual company retreats.