Galaxy

Associate/VP, Back-End Software Engineer

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23 days ago
India (city not specified)Senior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable back-end systems for custody, DeFi, trading, and related business lines.
  • Support the onboarding of new custodial and execution accounts and venues.
  • Partner with technical leads on high-level system design and technical approaches for medium-to-large initiatives.
  • Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship features.
  • Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Drive impact analysis and detailed design and translate designs into engineering tasks.
  • Automate business workflows to improve operational and capital efficiency.
  • Implement core components and pair with other engineers as needed.
  • Own production services end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, ongoing reliability, and issue resolution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on back-end development.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Python, and/or other back-end development languages.
  • Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and ORM frameworks.
  • Ability to balance system design work with hands-on delivery.
  • Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Fluent in English and interested in cryptocurrency and building the future.
  • Traditional finance or cryptocurrency experience supporting trading, middle-office, or back-office systems is a bonus.
  • Experience with Claude Code, Codex, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, or message-based architectures is a bonus.
  • Experience with commercial software full-lifecycle development, distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven design is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive paid time off.
  • Hybrid working arrangements.
  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace.
  • Generous paid parental leave.
  • Opportunities to learn about the cryptocurrency industry.
  • Employee Resource Groups and a collaborative entrepreneurial work environment.

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About Galaxy

1,001-5,000 employees

Galaxy provides an institutional digital-assets platform spanning trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, and it builds and operates AI/HPC data-center infrastructure. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates the Helios campus in Texas and is developing a multi-gigawatt U.S. capacity pipeline. It monetizes through fees, market activities, and infrastructure services for financial institutions and enterprises across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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