📝 DRAFT — Full-Stack Engineer (Remote) at Request

Full-Stack Engineer (Remote) Request 💼 Tech ⏰ Full Time 🌍 Remote

posted 1130 days ago ✅ 4 applications

About the Job

Request is a 4 years old Swiss Foundation with a dozen team members in Europe, in Asia, and in the USA and with +35’000 followers on social media. We’re building an invoice technology to provide the most innovative invoicing experience.

Request Invoicing, our 8 month old product, is a crypto-friendly invoicing app on top of blockchain technology. At the moment, 80 businesses are creating and paying invoices in crypto currencies. Among them we count crypto organizations and freelancers.

We’re inventing features to make sure the businesses have an incentive to behave fairly, such as the invoice payers’ reputation system.
We aim at building an open system allowing our users to interact with the other projects we integrate.
We’re moving towards a fully decentralized tool where all stakeholders have incentives for the product to be successful.

THE ROLE
We are looking for an experienced Full-stack Engineer to join the development team, used to development on solutions with high usage (2000-5000 monthly users), to support our scaling phase.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in the Request Invoicing development
- Keep yourself up-to-date with our stack: Typescript, Node, React, Mongo, Kubernetes, Docker, NPM, Circle CI.
- Participate in the continuous improvement of the Request Network library, make it easy to pay and get paid on Ethereum and other public blockchains with open source packages: request-client.js, payment-processor, payment-detection, etc.
- Propose functional design improvements, challenge the infrastructure, the development & release process.
- Design and implement integrations with partners (Invoicing REST API, payment detection on other blockchains, accounting software etc.)
- Optionally gain knowledge and responsibility over our decentralized framework: ethers.js, IPFS, Solidity, Infura.

QUALIFICATIONS
- Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking
- Strong interest in blockchain technology, and the future of payments
- Strong knowledge of Typescript and Node.js
- Used to open-source development
- Understanding of API design (REST, RPC)
- Good understanding of git and continuous integration tools
- Self-motivated, innovative and proactive
- Ability to take responsibility for projects and the willingness to learn and grow professionally in a team environment
- Willingness to improve by giving and asking for feedback
- Team spirit above personal results

Bonus - this makes you stand out:
- Good knowledge of Ethereum: frequent dapp usage or smart-contract development
Familiarity with kubernetes, Helm, Google Cloud Platform, CircleCI
- Mobile development (architecture, design, development framework)
- Cryptography
- Monitoring of stability and performances

WHY WORK WITH REQUEST ?
- Being on the frontier of this new and exciting technology, you will be given the chance to lead the way forward!
- You will have the opportunity to work in a highly ambitious team that wants to have a lasting impact on the way we experience finance tomorrow
- Work in an informal and friendly environment that is very open to new initiatives and ideas
- The team is inclusive, with inspirational and international colleagues that like to participate in team events
- Unlimited vacation days with a mandatory minimum of 20/year.
- We all work remotely (even without pandemic) but we love to meet as frequently as possible, with at least 3 company-wide reunions per year where possible.
- Salary: 60 000€ - 80 000€ yearly