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# DevOps Engineer - Contractor at Coin Market Cap Ltd

- **Company:** Coin Market Cap Ltd
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/coinmarketcap/901558ef-445f-4fdf-8fba-b2c0c5a505e3

## Job description

Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop backend architecture for business systems, ensuring high availability, high performance, and scalability.
2. Perform service governance and performance tuning in high-concurrency scenarios to continuously improve system stability, throughput, and response efficiency.
3. Develop core services and business modules, including user systems, authentication, authorization, and open API capabilities.
4. Participate in microservices architecture design and implementation, promoting system modularization, service-orientation, and engineering excellence.
5. Troubleshoot production issues, analyze performance, and resolve complex technical problems.
6. Collaborate with product, frontend, QA, and cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality delivery of requirements.
7. Continuously optimize development processes, code quality, and technical solutions to improve maintainability and R&D efficiency.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
2. 3-5+ years of Java backend development experience with a solid technical foundation. Outstanding fresh graduates may also be considered.
3. Proficiency in Java core technologies, with a deep understanding of JVM, concurrency programming, collection frameworks, I/O, and network communication.
4. Familiarity with mainstream frameworks like Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, with experience in microservices development and governance.
5. Experience in developing high-performance, high-concurrency systems, with familiarity in caching, asynchronous processing, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and thread pools.
6. Proficiency in common middleware such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, with an understanding of their use cases and performance optimization methods.
7. Understanding of common distributed system issues and solutions, including idempotency, consistency, distributed locks, transaction processing, and service fault tolerance.
8. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of independently troubleshooting production issues and resolving complex problems.
9. Familiarity with authentication and authorization mechanisms, with experience designing and developing with OAuth2, JWT, SSO, RBAC, and Session.
10. Experience with Kubernetes, including containerized deployment, service orchestration, auto-scaling, and configuration management.
11. Experience with AWS cloud services is a plus.
12. Strong coding standards, documentation skills, and teamwork abilities.

## About Coin Market Cap Ltd

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CoinMarketCap is the world’s most trusted source for real-time cryptocurrency data, market capitalizations, pricing, and on-chain analytics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Binance)
- **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (registered); has remote-first operations across 47 countries
- **Founded**: May 2013
- **Founders**: Tran Van Hien (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Information Services / Cryptocurrency Data & Analytics
- **Target Customers**: Crypto traders, investors, institutions, media, and web3 developers (B2C, B2B)
- **Mission**: To accelerate the crypto revolution by organizing the world’s crypto intelligence and making it easily accessible to all.

## Products & Services
- **CoinMarketCap Website & Mobile App**: Flagship platform tracking 13M+ cryptocurrencies, ranked by market cap. Includes portfolio tracking, watchlists, and community features.
- **CMC API**: Public and Professional API endpoints for DEX data, market data, and on-chain analytics.
- **DexScan**: On-chain data tool covering 70+ blockchain networks with real-time security features and advanced filters.
- **CMC Academy**: Educational portal for learning about crypto and blockchain.
- **CMC Labs**: Startup accelerator for early-stage crypto projects.
- **Diamonds Loyalty Program**: Gamified rewards system for user engagement.
- **Market Indicators**: Fear & Greed Index, Altcoin Season Index, Token Unlocks, BTC ETF Tracker.
- **AI-Powered Tools**: TLDR summaries, Whitepaper Summaries, and Community Price Predictions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; acquired by Binance in April 2020 for **$400 million**.
- **Key Metric – Annual Revenue**: ~$22.1 million (Recent estimate from LinkedIn/BuiltIn).
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $5 million (Initial Coin Offering, 2022).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is Binance Digital Limited. Partners include major exchanges, media outlets (Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, U.S. government).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Tracks over **13 million** cryptocurrencies (as of Feb 2025).
  - Surpassed **13.2 billion page views** in 2021.
  - Employs **181 people** across 47 countries.
  - 276,292 LinkedIn followers.
  - Over 65 active job openings as of 2026.
  - Achieved ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification (June 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Trust & Credibility**: Widely cited by major news outlets and even the U.S. government for research and reports.
- **First-Mover Advantage**: Founded in 2013, it is the longest-running and most established price-tracking website in the crypto space.
- **Comprehensive Data**: Tracks 13M+ cryptocurrencies, offering the most extensive coverage.
- **Data Alliance**: Pioneered the DATA Alliance to promote transparency and accountability in crypto data.
- **Binance Backing**: As a subsidiary of the world’s largest crypto exchange, it has immense resources, network effects, and distribution.
- **ISO Certifications**: Recently achieved ISO 27001 (Information Security) and ISO 27701 (Privacy), giving them institutional-grade trust.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion of On-Chain & DeFi Data**: Continued investment in DexScan and DEX data endpoints.
- **AI & Automation**: Deepening AI integration (TLDR summaries, chatbots, Smart Contract QA).
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Growing API usage and developer-focused tools.
- **Community Engagement**: Scaling features like Community Sentiment, Price Predictions, and loyalty programs.
- **Globalization**: Maintaining a fully remote, distributed workforce across 47 countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "Hardcore" – results driven, fast learning, and passionate. The company emphasizes a DNA of talented, hardworking individuals.
- **Remote-First**: Most roles are remote/global, with hubs in Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary with the option to be paid in crypto.
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, flexible working hours, company-sponsored holidays, team-building activities.
- **Growth & Impact**: Opportunity to work on a product used by hundreds of millions of users and cited by global governments and media.
- **Engineering Focus**: Heavy investment in blockchain infrastructure, on-chain data, AI, and smart contract QA.

## Sources
1. [CoinMarketCap About Page](https://coinmarketcap.com/about/)
2. [CoinMarketCap Careers Page](https://coinmarketcap.com/jobs/)
3. [LinkedIn – CoinMarketCap](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coinmarketcap)
4. [Built In – CoinMarketCap Careers](https://builtin.com/company/coinmarketcap)
5. [Jobs at CoinMarketCap (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/coinmarketcap)

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