Join Golden Ratio Exchange as a Platform Engineer to build the developer experience for our R&D department. Design, code, and maintain self-service platforms, engineer the CI/CD platform, and improve developer experience. Work with a remote-first team in a well-funded R&D company.
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Job Description
Team: Cloud Platform
Location: Remote (Central European Timezone preferred)
About Us
We are a new, well-funded R&D company with a clear vision: to build the future of cryptocurrency infrastructure. Our ambition is to become the #1 cryptocurrency platform in the EU by market share within the next three years.
We are starting with a proven, operational crypto platform and are now assembling a world-class team to evolve it to the next level. Our core products include:
- Golden Ratio Exchange: An advanced, security-first exchange for professional traders.
- GRX Pay: A seamless payment gateway that allows merchants to accept crypto and receive fiat.
This is a rare opportunity to join a fresh company culture from day one, while working on the exciting technical challenges of a mature product. We are building a remote-first R&D culture and are in the process of establishing a physical hub in Ticino, Switzerland, for optional collaboration and team gatherings.
The Role
This is a software engineering role, not a traditional IT or DevOps position. We are looking for a Platform Engineer who loves to build products for other developers.
Your "product" is the entire developer experience (DevEx) for our R&D department. Your "customers" are all the other engineers in teams like Tenants, Assets, and Market. Your mission is to build the tools, abstractions, and self-service platforms that make our developers faster, safer, and more productive.
You won't just run RabbitMQ; you will build the "Queue (RabbitMQ) as-a-platform" that other teams consume. You won't just use an API gateway; you will build and maintain the "API gateway as-a-platform" that defines our standards. You will write high-quality, scalable code (using our company stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Nest.js) to create the internal tools that power our entire R&D organization.
While this is a remote-first role, you should be based in a CET-adjacent timezone to collaborate effectively with colleagues. You can also expect to travel for periodic in-person team gatherings.
What You'll Do
- Build 'as-a-Platform' Services: Design, code, and maintain the self-service platforms that all our engineers rely on. This specifically includes:
- API gateway as-a-platform
- WebSocket API as-a-platform
- Queue (RabbitMQ) as-a-platform
- User log processing as-a-platform
- Engineer the CI/CD Platform: Act as a core developer and maintainer of our CI/CD platform, building reusable pipelines, deployment patterns, and automation.
- Improve Developer Experience: Build the tooling and automation that defines and improves our development experience, from local setup to production.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Work with the team to manage and scale our foundational AWS services (k8s, databases, cache, vault) using code (e.g., Terraform).
- Maintain Standards: Help build the tooling that defines and enforces API standards, version control policies, and best practices.
- Reliability: Participate in on-call rotations and help lead incident response procedures and post-mortems.
What We're Looking For
- Software Engineer First: You are a strong software engineer with 3+ years of experience, preferably with TypeScript/Node.js, who is passionate about infrastructure.
- Platform Experience: You have a proven track record of building internal tools, developer platforms, or CI/CD systems. You treat "infrastructure" as a "product."
- DevOps/Infra Skills: Deep, hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
- CI/CD Expert: Experience building and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- "Customer" Empathy: You have a product mindset and genuine empathy for your "customers" (other developers) and their experience.
- Location: Based in a timezone adjacent to Central European Time (CET) for optimal team collaboration.
- Problem Solver: You are an autonomous problem-solver who can take a high-level goal (e.g., "we need a better API gateway") and own it from design to production.
Bonus Points
- Experience building custom API gateways or platform abstractions.
- Deep knowledge of our specific infra stack: RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis.
- Experience in a FinTech or high-security environment.
What We Offer
- Foundational Role: A unique opportunity to be a founding engineer building the entire developer platform for a high-growth FinTech.
- High-Impact: Your work will directly accelerate every other engineer in the company.
- Clear Ambition: The chance to join a company with a clear goal of becoming the #1 crypto platform in the EU.
- Greenfield Culture, Brownfield Code: A rare chance to join a new company culture with no baggage, while solving the interesting technical challenges of a mature product.
- Flexibility & Connection: A 100% remote-first role with periodic, all-expenses-paid team gatherings and a new hub in Ticino, Switzerland.
- Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package.
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