Lead Lightning Network Infrastructure Engineer

Lightspark is building open payments for the Internet—always-on payment solutions powered by Bitcoin, the only open, neutral network for moving value. With enterprise tools like Connect, UMA, and Spark, businesses can send and receive money instantly, securely, and at a fraction of the cost, anytime, anywhere. Lightspark is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, but serves the world.

Location: Los Angeles HQ

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Engineering

Compensation: $240,000 to $280,000 per year

Job duties – Designing, building, and scaling production services in Python, Go, and Rust. Debugging production issues and supporting customers in their integration of the company's services. Creating long term strategies and tooling to improve the stability, debuggability, monitoring, and support for company’s services and customers. Implementing new features of the Lightning Protocol to keep the company’s services at the cutting edge of the Lightning Network. Learning and sharing knowledge around the Lightning Network, Bitcoin Network, and other blockchains to contribute to the company’s highly collaborative environment. Collaborating with the Lightning network and Bitcoin communities to make core protocol improvements. Leading and mentoring a local team of Lightning Engineers. Acting as a technical leader to ensure the integrity of the platform and promote good practices across the team. Build frameworks to collect and deeply analyze Lightning data for the purpose of solution improvement.

Education and Experience required – Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering and 7 years of experience in Software Engineering or related occupation.

Background –

1) 7 years of experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining API services and distributed systems using GraphQL, REST, Thrift, Manhattan, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Memcached;

2) 7 years of experience working with engineering and product leadership teams to help drive technical strategy and roadmaps by identifying problems, ideating solutions, formulating milestones and delivery dates;

3) 7 years of experience mentoring engineers by providing specific, actionable feedback both adhoc and in annual reviews, performing code reviews on Github and Phabricator, reviewing design documents in Google Drive, and helping break down projects;

4) 5 years of experience developing novel engineering solutions using Go and Rust, Python, Scala, Java, and Kotlin;

5) 2 years of experience working with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Docker;

6) 2 years of experience configuring deployments using Helm and Terraform, while implementing monitoring and alerting best practices using Prometheus and Grafana.

Location – Culver City, CA (May telecommute within a reasonable commuting distance from the office)

How to apply – Email [email protected] with job reference #LLNIE in subject line.

Lightspark is on a mission to build an open payment protocol for the Internet at scale and therefore we’re committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.