Senior Back-End Engineer (Javascript, Python)

As 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 frontend engineers as well as DeFi strategists and will be bridging the constraints posed by web-scale 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.

• Design and implement AI endpoints and support infrastructure for proprietary 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 the backend infrastructure for Volume’s Defi dApps, Bots, and AI models. 
• 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. 

• Excellent JavaScript skills 
• Excellent Python skills
• Degree in Computer Science
• Experience with 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.  

• Good Rust skills
• Proficient knowledge of Go