Backend Engineer

Bitmark Inc. – a venture backed software company – is looking for candidates to join our team and accelerate development of our blockchain and related services. You’ll get to work in an environment that deeply values design and engineering, alongside a talented team with industry-proven open source (we are ex-Openmoko people) and design experience.

About the company: Bitmark Inc. is a blockchain startup defining property for the digital environment by enabling issuance of property titles for digital assets. As the facilitating network for ownership and stewardship of personal digital ecologies, Bitmark embraces creators and digital environmentalists vying for a healthy internet and Internet of Things.

Essential job functions

We have several projects ongoing in parallel, which are Feral File, Autonomy, and Bitmark Protocol. Please let us know which project you are interested in if you would like to apply this position. The engineering manager will also work with you to determine which project makes you a better fit according to your interests and skills through the interview process.

Feral File

A hybrid between an online gallery, marketplace, and publisher of artist editions. Invigorating the future of exhibiting, curating, and collecting digital media in partnership with the digital art community through Bitmark NFTs.

• Develop and maintain the backend of Feral File
  • Integrate Bitmark SDK to manage Bitmark NFTs
  • Support the display and distribution of different types of digital artworks, e,g software, video, pdf, audio, image, 3D, animated gif, etc.
  • Support international payments in both fiat and cryptocurrencies
• Leverage CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment
• Scale the service to support higher transaction volume
• Create internal data analytics to help with decision making

Autonomy

Autonomy is a full node wallet, a P2P contact list, and a recovery network. Working together, they give you independence, make Bitcoin easy to use, and ensure that you never lose your money. It’s like having a Bitcoin full node in your pocket!

• Develop the Autonomy pod, the Bitcoin full node designed for running in the cloud privately for each user
  • Increase the privacy, safety, and security of Autonomy pod, which will require Torgap, Signal messaging, etc.
  • Design a scalable architecture for running more Autonomy pods
  • Lower the cost of running an Autonomy pod
• Develop the backend of Autonomy app and other Bitcoin-related microservices powered by Bitmark (e.g. fee estimation, price history, explorer, etc.)
• Work with communities to make the solutions Gordian-certified

Bitmark Protocol

Bitmark Protocol is a system for organizing information about the world’s digital resources. People can activate — use, transfer, generate revenue from — resources safely with each other by verifying what a resource is and who controls it through Bitmark Protocol.

• Maintain the Bitmark blockchain and the Bitmark Golang SDK
• Work with communities to advance the Bitmark Protocol. The research topics include but are not limited to:
  • Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
  • InterNFT
  • RGB
  • Cosmos

Required

• Strong computer science fundamentals and coding skills (we use Golang)
• Knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, LevelDB, Redis)
• Knowledge of communication methods to interact with applications and other services (REST, WebSockets, RPC, etc.)
• Knowledge of configuration management (Git, containers, Ansible)
• Cloud services (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean)
• Conversational-level English

Plus

• Cryptography and cryptographic tools (e.g. Tor, Bitcoin, end-to-end encryption communication)
• Kubernetes

• Stock options
• Child care benefits