About Virgo Group

Founded in 2018, Virgo Group of Companies has been dedicated to offering cryptocurrency trading services across Canada. Our diverse business lines include VirgoCX, VirgoCX Wealth, and Virgo Digital Asset Management, providing exceptional services that span various aspects of crypto trading. Expanding our footprint further since 2022, we have also built a strong business presence in Australia, the U.S., and more in future. Rooted in a culture of continuous innovation, Virgo Group is prepared to become an integrated global digital asset service provider.

VirgoCX is committed to making crypto trading safe, easy, and affordable for Canadians. It is Canada's trusted non-custodial trading platform, registered with FINTRAC (MSB# M19955733), and dedicated to streamlining trading experience and empowering clients with advanced technology, superior liquidity, and best-in-class security.

Mission and Vision

VirgoCX's mission is to provide easy and affordable access for all Canadians to buy and sell cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, XRP, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDC and more. Whether you are a new or experienced trader, VirgoCX is your trusted crypto trading partner that supports you throughout your journey.

We are now seeking a skilled Back End Developer to join our tech team and help build secure, scalable, and high-performance services for our trading platform.

Responsibilities:

• Develop JAVA software for cryptocurrency trading platforms and payment system
• Develop trading system infrastructure as directed
• Design, develop and maintain the SQL database with high-level performance
• Connect APIs with external partners
• Work with our core system team to deploy trading system components in our production trading platform
• Identify opportunities to optimize system latency and resiliency
• Create tools to automate the configuration, deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting of trading system components
• Be responsible for troubleshooting system issues as and when they occur
• Engage with the team during system design discussions, code review

Qualifications:

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree (or above) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar, with excellent results
• A software engineer with 4+ years experience in developing clean, maintainable and performant code
• You have 3+ years of experience developing in JAVA8, J2EE, Redis, RabbitMQ, Spring Framework, MySQL and other database languages
• You can find the balance between delivering clean, testable, secured, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features
• You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust and secured software and are willing to be on call to support the systems you develop
• You’re able to precisely articulate software concepts and designs
• You have excellent written and verbal English
• Bilingual is an asset, especially Chinese or French