Senior Blockchain Engineer at Midas (Turkey)
Midas· Turkey·
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Job description
At Midas, we are working on real-life engineering challenges to transform the world of finance. We’ve transformed investing in Turkey by delivering a seamless experience for everyday investors. Today, 4 million users invest with Midas. Backed by an $80M Series B, the largest fintech investment ever in Turkey, we are scaling faster than ever.
What You'll Do
- Design and operate secure blockchain systems that handle customer assets
- Own on-premises custody architecture, including HSM-backed key management, transaction signing, access controls, redundancy, backups, and disaster recovery
- Lead custody integrations and migrations while maintaining security and transaction continuity
- Develop, deploy, and maintain production-grade smart contracts and DEX integrations
- Build multi-chain transaction infrastructure across EVM-compatible networks, Solana, and other non-EVM ecosystems
- Build and operate RPC integrations, blockchain nodes, indexers, reorg-aware chain listeners, and on-chain data pipelines
- Own the transaction lifecycle from policy checks and signing through confirmation, reconciliation, and recovery
- Establish strong practices for observability, incident response, operational security, and failure recovery
- Work closely with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver reliable financial infrastructure
What You'll Bring
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating critical production systems, ideally in financial services, digital assets, brokerage, or exchange environments
- Hands-on experience with RPC integrations, node operations, indexers, chain listeners, wallets, custody systems, and transaction signing
- Experience designing, operating, or migrating on-premises custody infrastructure using HSMs
- Strong knowledge of key lifecycle management, cryptographic signing, access controls, backup strategies, and disaster recovery
- Production experience across both EVM-compatible and non-EVM networks, ideally including Solana
- Experience developing and operating smart contracts; strong Solidity knowledge is expected, while Rust or Solana development experience is valuable
- Experience integrating DEXs, DeFi protocols, or other on-chain financial workflows
- Understanding of node synchronization, RPC reliability, transaction models, finality, reorg handling, backfills, fees, and network-specific failure scenarios
- Knowledge of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, idempotency, data consistency, and observability
- Ability to independently own complex, security-sensitive projects from design through production
Why work at Midas
- Culture: Described as a fast-growing fintech with a flat hierarchy and a focus on ownership. However, Glassdoor-style ratings are low (2.0/5.0 based on 3 reviews) – take with caution. The large number of ex-employees from top Turkish tech companies (Trendyol, Getir, Papara) suggests a competitive talent environment.
- Remote/Hybrid Policy: Not explicitly stated, but offices in Istanbul (Uskudar and Üsküdar). Likely hybrid given the tech-heavy workforce.
- Engineering Culture: Strong emphasis on modern tools (Kubernetes, GitOps, observability stack). Engineering makes up ~43% of the workforce (149 out of 350). Active hiring for senior and lead engineering roles.
- Perks: Not detailed, but as a well-funded Series B company, likely offers competitive compensation (4.0/5.0 compensation rating) and equity.