Senior Software Engineer

StarkWare, Israel's largest deep-tech blockchain company and a global leader in blockchain infrastructure, has developed technology that overcomes the blockchain industry’s key challenge: scalability. By applying zero-knowledge proofs, StarkWare enables tens of thousands of transactions per second with reduced costs, preserving security and privacy.

Its Layer 2 innovation, Starknet, operates on Ethereum and potentially Bitcoin, allowing developers to build decentralized, scalable, and cost-effective applications on the blockchain.

As our Senior Software Engineer in StarkWare, you will design and develop complex high-performance, high-quality software, spanning across algorithms, application logic, and infrastructure.

Our system is built in a microservices architecture that interacts with external systems (such as the blockchain and our partners’ systems) and meets demanding performance, resilience, and security requirements. The code is written mostly in Python and in C++ and utilizes continuous delivery and automated testing methodologies.

The right candidate:

• Has at least 3 years of backend development experience in a high-level object-oriented language (preference for Python and C++17)
• Is a University graduate in Computer Science (with a high GPA)
• Has experience building complex, high-scale, high-performance software
• Is curious by nature and a quick learner

Ideally Experienced With

• Advanced OOP and design patterns
• Performance optimizations
• Linux operating system, its internals, and ecosystem
• Interaction with NoSQL databases at scale
• Implementation of services in a microservice architecture
• Cryptographic primitives and protocols / Blockchain technologies
• CI/CD and TDD methodologies