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Kaiko is a rapidly growing fintech startup in the digital assets industry with an international presence. Our mission is to be the foundation of the new digital finance economy, which promises to expand financial opportunity and inclusion globally. We do this by empowering market participants with accurate, transparent, and actionable crypto data to be leveraged for a range of market activities including strategy backtesting, in-depth research, valuation, analytics, and integrations.
About the Job
Overview
Kaiko Data and Platform Department
Kaiko operates a data infrastructure which is growing to a critical service for most of our customers. As per any critical service and under its ongoing SOC 2 Audit process, Kaiko has to meet operational standards in the financial environment like a 99.5% uptime, very strict data quality and requirement rules, 100% auditable processes for its regulated services.
The platform department is responsible for designing the services that will support the delivery of the designed products to our customers. The mission consists in transforming requirements for new product increments designed by the portfolio team into implementable iterations jointly with the Engineering department, supervising its delivery up to launch in production.
The platform department is made of Product Owners and a service delivery manager supervising the product lifecycle as a whole.
Kaiko platform department is scaling as the company scales, and a dedicated Product Owner will take on specific pipelines and services under their area of ownership.
One of these areas is the off-chain & analytics pipeline :
(i) Kaiko connects to all centralized exchanges around the world to aggregate tick data
(ii) Kaiko builds jointly with partners the connectivity solutions to make our data services and solutions available worldwide seamlessly
(iii) Kaiko builds its own engines towards delivery of IP owned products
Your Missions
● Crypto Centralized Exchange qualification : Work jointly with the Kaiko Indices business unit towards an IP owned Exchange qualification. The project has already started, model needs to be refined with internal stakeholders and launched.
● Worldwide Extranet Connectivity : Work closely with Kaiko's Product manager for Off chain market data to expand our distribution networks with on-boarding of new partners, jointly with our SRE engineering department.
● Product Lifecycle: Take ownership under the VP Platform supervision of the Off Chain Business unit quarterly product increment, working closely with the Product Manager - On Chain Market Data. You'll also need to work closely with the Service Delivery Manager to integrate the larger picture of the full quarter group level delivery cycle.
● Quantitative & Indices Finance : Take ownership from a platform perspective of newly created business units (Indices and Quantitative data) in the larger group level delivery cycle, so that they meet the standards defined for Off Chain and allow them both to scale with a dedicated PO in due time.
● You'll also be in direct relationship with customers to demo our services distributing the Off chain data and accompany them towards integration of our services during their onboarding.
Must Have
For this position, we will consider both Entry Level to 2-3 years experience profiles
● The candidate has a solid engineering background in data/software/computer science, development and management
● A knowledge in Blockchain ecosystem and/or engineering principles is a plus
● Very good communications skills, both internally and externally, problem resolution oriented spirit
● Knowledge in Capital Markets infrastructure is a plus
● Strong Analytical skills, Project oriented profile, knowledge of agile as a spirit (not a scrum maximalist) is a plus
Qualifications
● Masters of Science / Engineering
● Programming qualifications or education is strongly preferred.
● Fully fluent in English is mandatory
● Other languages covering a financial market or region is a plus.
Company Benefits and Perks
● Hardware of your choice
● Remote friendly
● Health insurance
● Meal vouchers
● Multiple team events (annual retreat, casual drinks, etc.)
● An entrepreneurial environment with a lot of autonomy and responsibilities
● Staff surprises!
Additional Information
Contract type: Full Time
Desired starting date: [ASAP]
Location: Paris, France (Boulevard Haussmann, 8th arrondissement)
International applicants welcome!
Interested? Apply now by emailing your resume and a short introduction to jobs@kaiko.com!
