Principal Ruby Engineer, API

Figment is the world’s leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. We provide the most comprehensive staking solution for our over 200+ institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders to earn rewards on their crypto assets. These clients rely on Figment’s institutional staking service including rewards optimization, rapid API development, rewards reporting, partner integrations, governance, and slashing protection. Figment is backed by industry experts, financial institutions and our global team across twenty three countries. This all leads to our mission to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web3 ecosystem.

We are a growth stage technology company – looking for people who are builders and doers. People who are comfortable plotting their course through ambiguity and uncertainty to drive impact and who are excited to work in new ways and empower a generative company culture.

About this Role

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to come scale our APIs team. This team’s mission is to implement required business logics and APIs that allow users to stake and unstake their tokens on a variety of networks. Figment offers a comprehensive variety of staking/unstaking products on the Ethereum network; and a major portion of our team’s responsibility lies in developing, understanding, and integrating with Smart Contracts on Ethereum.

If you're a seasoned Principal Engineer with deep Ruby on Rails expertise and experiences, and who thrives on driving and solving complex challenges, we'd love to chat! In this role, you'll drive a variety of projects - leading or collaborating with other engineers on the team, driving or contributing to architectural decisions, and communicating your ideas with Product and Engineering leaders.

This is a full-time remote opportunity in Canada. Our team is dynamic and collaborative, with lots of opportunities to learn and drive impactful business outcomes. If you're someone who's comfortable working in an unstructured environment, enjoys navigating ambiguity with minimal direction, has a demonstrated ability in taking on a wide range of projects with a strong sense of ownership, and love to explore/build new technologies - this may be the perfect match.

What you will be doing

• Lead initiatives end-to-end through technical design, technical roadmap, implementation, and testing.
• Be the dedicated technical owner of products & processes.
• Contribute code as a leader and SME; influence best practices, and set standards for the rest of the team.
• Work …