We enable Individual Investors to Design and Execute DeFi Arbitrage trades easily using No-Code
AlgoBlocks is strongly positioned to disrupt the world of arbitrage trading in DeFi by enabling everyday investors to design and execute smart trades without knowing a single line of code!
We’ve recently secured commitments from Crypto Fund investors, trading houses and family offices in South East Asia – including an anchor investor who is a renowned family office in Singapore that regularly invests into the cryptocurrency space. Now we are looking to move fast to build a lean, elite team to build our MVP to get to the next stage of growth!
AlgoBlocks is a highly intuitive no-code tool that enables individual investors to make sophisticated and automated trades in DeFi – including highly coveted “arbitrage trades”. Think of us as the “Zapier” for DeFi trading to put together blocks of algorithms that form instructions for trade(s). Traders can also be part of a larger trading community to learn and earn by sharing their winning algorithms with other traders.
AlgoBlocks was founded by a team of executives who are all serial entrepreneurs and have held leadership positions in crypto trading, financial services and fund management companies. The founder holds 3 technical patents relevant to machine vision and a former EIR at a renowned exclusive accelerator in South East Asia.
AlgoBlocks is incorporated in Singapore and is in compliance with the rules and regulations of that jurisdiction. This position is located at our Hong Kong office.
The Role: Head of Engineering (Potential to grow into the CTO Role)
AlgoBlocks is looking for a Head of Engineering to build our product and a lean, mean engineering team in Hong Kong. This person will have tremendous responsibilities and exposure from Day 1 as part of the founding member of AlgoBlocks. This full-time position is based in Hong Kong and will report to the Founder.
The person should preferably be located in Hong Kong already with a valid work permit. Temporary remote working possible for only select candidates but with the view to relocate to Hong Kong as soon as possible. (When the covid related travel restrictions go away)
Responsibilities
· Head of engineering role in also providing thought leadership and technical representation of AlgoBlocks (Including the fund-raising process and other PR drives). You are not just an engineering head – you will be the technical face of AlgoBlocks.
· Recruit and scale an engineering team appropriate at each stage of the growth cycle of AlgoBlocks. (E.g. A team suitable for building a MVP, 1st launch etc)
· Ability to conceptualize and translate capital markets trading technology concepts to crypto trading.
· Knows or can quickly learn how to do a TGE. [Essential and non-negotiable]
· Perform hands-on design, prototypes and proofs-of-concept and development as required in blockchain technology (Essential)
· Establish the environments in which blockchain solutions can be implemented, including dev, testing, and production environments
· Collaborate with local and overseas development teams
· Participate in the large scale blockchain technical solutions and full development life cycle
· Provide support to various testing activities including unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing
Qualifications
Soft Skills
· Self-starter with passion for learning about new technology and the ability to roll up sleeves – knowing how to build lean and iterate until a strong, scalable product-market fit is achieved.
· Experience in cryptocurrency market, startup environment and passion for cryptocurrency industry (Essential)
· Experience or strong knowledge of DeFi (Essential)
· Understanding crypto trading and financial trading strategies (Highly Preferred)
· Passionate about programming and problem-solving in a collaborative team environment
· Excellent verbal/written communication, strong interpersonal and presentation skills – including being a good PR and spokesperson for the firm in the region
· Strong knowledge and connections in the Indian crypto market a plus – given the SEA market is part of the GTM strategy
Technical Skills
· Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science or related discipline (Masters preferred)
· At least 2-3 years practical work experience in Cryptocurrency Software Development and Information Technology
· Experience in Solidity, ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155 is a huge plus
· Knowledge of GIT or other source code management tool
· Experience or knowledge of derivative trading applications a plus
· Solid Experience in JAVA, Node.js, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Spring boot
· Experience in Rest API and any NoSQL DB is highly desired
· Experience in programming smart contract on Hyperledger Fabric is an advantage
· Experience in build and manage Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
· Familiar with Window server and Linux (Ubuntu)
· Familiar with Cloud solution deployment and administration
Salary / Remuneration
Negotiable (Salary + ESOP and KPI based Token Options)