As a Senior Back-End Engineer, you will be responsible for the backend
infrastructure, performance, stability, and scaling of user-facing dApps. You
will work closely with smart contract, protocol, and front-end engineers, as
well as DeFi strategists and AI Researchers. You will bridge the constraints
posed by web-scale applications, AI applications, and blockchain technology.
As an early employee, you will be a critical part of our core team and
significantly influence the company's direction.
Responsibilities
* Design and implement AI endpoints and support infrastructure for proprietary models.
* Maintain the backend infrastructure for Volume’s Defi dApps, Bots, and AI models.
* Work with LLMs (e.g., Llama3) to enhance AI capabilities with user-specific context.
* Develop and maintain data management dashboards for user interaction and context control.
* Maintain services and scripts for the marketing team infrastructure with Mixpanel, Storyblock, and Discourse.
* Write high-quality, reusable, and well-tested code to meet our company goals.
* Demonstrate security and secret management across numerous services.
Requirements
* Excellent JavaScript skills
* Excellent Python skills
* Degree in Computer Science
* Experience with [Node.js](http://Node.js), Docker, DBMS technology including postgresSQL and SQLlite and caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcache
* In-depth understanding of the Python software development stacks, ecosystems, frameworks, and tools such as Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Dask, spaCy, NLTK, sci-kit-learn, and PyTorch.
* AI/LLMs: Experience with large language models and prompt engineering.
* Familiarity with blockchain governance or enthusiasm to learn.
* Team player and are comfortable reviewing others' code and implementing feedback from others on your work.
* Exceptional communication skills.
* Comfortable with asynchronous written communication, synchronous video calls, pair programming, etc.
Nice to have
* Good Rust skills
* Proficient knowledge of Go
