About us
ARKHON is a digital asset infrastructure company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Singapore. ARKHON’s mission is to empower financial institutions to offer a robust and secure digital asset capability to their customers with speed-to-market and composability. The team has decades of experience from top institutions such as Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Nomura, HSBC and Standard Chartered, as well as years of experience integrating and operating world-class digital asset businesses in a regulated and compliant manner.
Your role
As a Senior Engineer based in Singapore you will be a key part of the software development capability, building our world class digital asset trading and operations platform. The role will require a strong, demonstrable background in software development, test automation and product build & run. You will play an important part delivering the product roadmap, ensuring software quality, platform scalability and security - all driven in a lean agile approach. Working in collaboration with the operations, product and delivery teams you will work across the technology stack, forming part of the high functioning, productive scrum teams who will deliver features on a regular basis and run the products and platform 24/7.
What you will do
- As a hands-on developer, play a key role in the engineering capability, coding quality software, aligning to the engineering standards and deploying frequently.
- Technologies include: TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, React Native, Redux, Storybook, AWS, Terraform, K8S, Postgres, Redis, Kafka.
- Collaborate with the product team to make sure requirements for our external and internal clients are fit for purpose, ensuring stories are ‘dev-ready’.
- Be part of building a great engineering function, helping us attract and hire quality talent.
- Be comfortable engineering in a scalable, secure and composable architecture using constructs such as event-based streaming, microservices, open-source software, containerisation and native cloud capabilities.
- Be security focussed, be part of driving secure by design thinking early on (ISO 27001 compliant), to ensure our systems and data are safe, with effective controls in place to constantly test and validate through our delivery lifecycle and external threat management.
- Help build and run best practices across engineering, test automation and SRE, focussing on software quality, scalability and resilience.
- Leverage and evolve a stable path to production using automation, native cloud capabilities and DevSecOps tooling.
- Ensure we’re fit to run our platform 24/7, leveraging the best diagnostic tooling to enable monitoring, logging and alerting.
- Be constantly customer and product focussed, thinking of service quality and exceptional customer experience through to ensuring stories are dev-ready and fit for delivery
What you will bring
- Desire and passion to be part of a highly focussed, ambitious team that deliver amazing digital products and technology.
- Several years’ experience as an Engineer in a digitally progressive industry, with proven track record of development, automation and software delivery.
- Experience building and continuously improving technology platforms that are scalable, resilient and maintainable.
- Pragmatic and balanced approach to quality software delivery and value-driven client centricity.
- Demonstrable experience of Lean Agile ways of working – SCRUM, Kanban, XP etc.
- Solid understanding of building mobile and web applications, software engineering, microservices, API integration and cloud technologies.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English).
- Bonus: experience and/or a genuine interest in digital assets, cryptocurrency, blockchain and other distributed ledger-related technologies.
How you approach your work
- Dedication, detail and drive. Energetic, resourceful, and hands-on individual who can operate effectively with little direction and pursues goals with a sense of urgency. You are detail-oriented and readily cope with changing priorities, take initiative, and assume responsibility for following through
- Integrity, values and ethics. You have a strong, ingrained sense of professional integrity and ethics.
- Entrepreneurial and effective team member. Self-starter who enjoys solving complex problems while being part of a high-performance team in a fast-paced environment
- Agile thinker. See the big picture and map out the details to achieve your goals. You are creative about providing innovative solutions (new approaches and processes).
What we offer
- An opportunity to work in a rapidly expanding and hugely exciting industry.
- Great career development opportunities and being part of a fantastic team.
- Flexible working environment, including remote work, and casual work attire.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
