Who we're looking for
We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team. The Wallets & Funds system powers the custody of bitcoin deposits, enabling many thousands of trading customers to make secure deposits as margin in our Trading Engine.
Our systems are responsible for tracking deposits, creating withdrawals, and interacting with the base layer of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
BitMEX is building a best in class funds and wallets team to help us increase security and efficiency of our deposits, as well as onboard millions of new users in the years to come.
What you will be doing
Develop and maintain software to credit customer’s cryptocurrency deposits and prepare withdrawals in a safety-critical and high-uptime environment.
Improve test coverage of existing codebases as well as engage in test-driven development practices with the team.
Assist in architecting new cryptocurrency and wallet infrastructure relying on modern standards and practices.
Who you are
10+ years experience working as a team on a python codebase
Familiarity with a code-review and pull-request based workflow
Experienced with writing software that speaks a variety of network protocols, with awareness of appropriate threading / locking models, or asynchronous design to ensure correctness
Good to have :
Shipping and deploying container-based software
Experience of handling large datasets in python, perhaps with numpy or scipy tooling
Transaction-level awareness of cryptocurrencies (scripts, signatures, utxo set, proof of work, fees, blocks)
Use of type checked and code-formatted python, pytest and similar, CI / CD.
Awareness of defensive software security practices 
