What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Fullstack Engineer, Connect position at Lightspark?
The Internet lacks a protocol for money. Lightspark is building the tools and services to make it happen. Lightspark builds enterprise-ready infrastructure for open payments for the Internet at scale using the Lightning Network. An always-on, low-cost, universal payment network will completely transform how money is moved, enabling businesses and developers to transform existing solutions and build new financial systems, services, and processes accessible to everyone, transcending geographical restraints. Lightspark is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, but serves the world.
At Lightspark, we are pioneering the future of payments by leveraging the Bitcoin network and diving deep into the capabilities of the Lightning Network. Our mission is to build a secure and robust payment infrastructure that bridges the gap between traditional finance and cryptocurrency.
We are seeking a senior full-stack engineer who thrives in entrepreneurial environments, enjoys writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence. As a member of our Connect team, your primary responsibilities will include designing, leading and building the user experience for our enterprise product, creating and automating our Connect SDKs, and developing new features for our APIs and websites.
What you will be doing
- Designing, building, and maintaining the Connect website experience for our customers, while also generating and upgrading our SDKs and APIs across multiple platforms and languages.
- Coding in Typescript, React and Python most of the time, but also occasionally in Go,, Kotlin, and more languages. You don't need to know all of these to join, but we hope you'll be excited to learn!
- Working closely with UX design, other developers, and Product Management to build world class software
- Working closely with DevOps to build automated testing and client continuous integration
- Designing and building production services, websites, and applications
- Creating a rich services layer to serve the next set of users and use cases - bringing Lightning to mass adoption
- Learning and growing in a highly collaborative environment
- Integrating with partners to build new services for Lightspark's customers
- Building core infrastructure to support new features and functionality
What we are looking for
Lightspark is on a mission to build an open payment protocol for the Internet at scale and therefore we're committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
