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Role Description

As a Software Engineer at Obsidian, you’ll work on challenging projects across diverse domains—fintech, blockchain, AI, data science, and more. You’ll collaborate with a fully remote, distributed team of experts to design and build software systems that are robust, scalable, and impactful.

• Designing and developing new applications and systems
• Writing clean, testable, and well-documented code
• Participating in thoughtful code reviews and architecture discussions
• Debugging, optimizing, and improving existing systems
• Contributing to testing, CI/CD, and deployment processes
• Exploring new technologies and applying them to real-world problems

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Hands-on experience in one or more of the following domains: fintech, blockchain, AI, data science, open-source, enterprise software
• Documented experience in functional programming (strong preference for Haskell and/or Rust and/or the Nix Ecosystem)
• A solid grasp of system design and architecture principles
• Experience collaborating on distributed, fully remote teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across time zones
• Contributions to open-source functional programming projects

Benefits

• A strong generalist culture, where employees are expected to study and improve themselves in skills that were initially weaker when they joined
• Global flexibility – work fully remote from anywhere (except U.S. restricted/embargoed countries)
• Impactful work – your contributions won’t be lost in layers of management; you’ll directly shape products and solutions
• Innovative tech – work at the frontier of functional programming, AI, blockchain, and beyond
• Supportive culture – join a team that values rigor, learning, and collaboration over ego