As a Software Engineer at Oku Trade, you'll work alongside our engineering team to maintain and improve both our backend services and frontend applications. This role offers the opportunity to work on meaningful projects with real impact while growing your skills across our technology stack.

You'll contribute to core components of our platform, including APIs, data processing routines, blockchain indexing, on-chain interactions across EVM chains, and React-based user interfaces. Working closely with senior engineers, you'll have the space to implement improvements and tackle challenging problems that directly affect our users.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and improve backend APIs in Golang and Node.js that handle high-throughput blockchain data and serve real-time market information
Work with EVM blockchain data, including parsing transaction logs, decoding smart contract events, and maintaining indexing services that track on-chain activity
Enhance our React frontend applications, focusing on performance optimization and user experience improvements for DeFi interfaces
Implement features across both backend and frontend, ensuring seamless data flow from blockchain to user interface

You might be great for this role if you have:

2+ years of Golang development experience with strong backend engineering skills
Hands-on experience with Web3 development, particularly working with EVM chains and understanding concepts of transaction indexing, MEV, and DeFi protocols
Strong React skills with experience building responsive, data-heavy interfaces
Enthusiasm for diving deep into complex systems and learning new technologies
Desire to grow your skills by working on challenging problems across the stack

What you'll do at Oku.Trade:

Work on critical infrastructure that processes millions of blockchain transactions daily while implementing new features to expand our capabilities
Contribute to improving our blockchain indexing architecture and API design as we scale to support more chains and protocols
Collaborate with a small team where your work has a visible impact on the product
Gain experience with production systems that thousands of users rely on daily

We'd love to hear from you if you're excited about:

Growing your engineering skills by working on real-world blockchain challenges
Contributing to systems that make DeFi more accessible and understandable
Working in a collaborative environment where you can learn from experienced engineers while making meaningful contributions
Building your expertise at the intersection of traditional web development and blockchain technology

Tools we are using today:

Golang, React, Node, Figma
Postgresql, Temporal, NATS, Clickhouse
Gitlab and Github
DigitalOcean, fly.io, Kubernetes, KNative, Pulumi

Oku Trade

Software Engineer

Chicago, Illinois (or remote if in North America)$115K-$175Kfull-time

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