Figment powers the future of Web3 through industry-leading blockchain infrastructure. As the leading provider of staking solutions, we help 500+ institutional clients optimize their crypto rewards, including top exchanges, asset managers, wallets, foundations, custodians, and major token holders. Our clients trust Figment for a comprehensive suite of services, including reward optimization, cutting-edge API development, detailed rewards reporting, seamless partner integrations, governance support, and slashing protection.
Backed by a team of passionate and intelligent Figmates, with a 100% remote-first global presence across 12 countries, our company is on a mission to accelerate the adoption, growth, and long-term success of the Web3 ecosystem. We’re building the infrastructure that will power the decentralized future.
As a fast-growing tech company, we’re looking for builders and innovators — people who thrive in the face of uncertainty and are motivated to make an impact. We are also looking for true teammates - people who are genuine, humble, and driven to level up together. If you're excited to shape the future, contribute to an energetic company culture, and work at the cutting edge of blockchain technology, we want you to join our team and help us lead the charge!
About the opportunity
Join Figment and help it in becoming the world’s leading staking services provider. Figment currently has over $15B assets under stake and growing. This role combines data engineering practices and software development, focusing on data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. The position requires building custom tools and automating data processes in a highly secure and scalable environment.
How you will make an impact
- Implement and maintain reliable data pipelines and data storage solutions.
- Implement data modeling and integrate technologies according to project needs.
- Manage specific data pipelines and oversees the technical aspects of data operations
- Ensure data processes are optimized and align with business requirements
- Identify areas for process improvements and suggests tools and technologies to enhance efficiency
- Continuously improve data infrastructure automation, ensuring reliable and efficient data processing.
- Develop and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes using technologies such as Dagster and DBT to ensure efficient data flow and processing.
- Automate data ingestion, transformation, and loading processes to support blockchain data analytics and reporting.
- Utilize Snowflake data warehousing solutions to manage and optimize data storage and retrieval.
- Collaborate with Engineering Leadership and Product teams to articulate data strategies and progress.
- Promote best practices in data engineering, cloud infrastructure, networking, and security.
What you bring to the team
- Extensive experience with data engineering, including building and managing data pipelines and ETL processes.
- Proficiency in the Python programming language and SQL.
- Experience developing highly concurrent and performant applications ensuring scalability and efficient resource utilization in distributed or multi-threaded systems.
- Experience implementing robust microservices following best practices in error handling, logging, and testing for production-grade systems.
- Experience with using CI/CD pipelines for automated data infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.
- Experience with the data orchestration tool Dagster or Airflow.
- Experience designing and orchestrating complex DAGs to manage dependencies, triggers, and retries for data workflows, ensuring reliable and efficient pipeline execution.
- Experience with the data transformation tool DBT.
- Experience designing and implementing complex data transformations using advanced DBT models, materializations, and configurations to streamline data workflows and improve performance.
- Experience optimizing and troubleshoot DBT pipelines for scale, ensuring that transformations run efficiently in production environments, handling large datasets without issues.
- Experience with cloud data warehousing platforms (e.g. Snowflake)
- Experience architecting and optimizing Snowflake environments for performance, including designing partitioning strategies, clustering keys, and storage optimizations for cost-effective scaling.
- Has an understanding of security and governance policies within Snowflake, including data encryption, access control, and audit logging to meet compliance and security best practices.
Technologies we use
Python, Snowflake, SQL, Dagster, dbt
Teams you’ll collaborate with most often
In addition to collaborating with other Data Engineering team members, this role will collaborate most often with our Data Science team.
Why you might be excited about us
At Figment, we offer an exciting range of competitive benefits designed to support and empower every member of our team:
- 100% remote-first environment. Our flagship office is in Toronto, Canada. We also have additional co-working spaces in New York, Montreal, London, and Singapore. That means if you want to do your things in the office (if you’re near one), at home, or a bit of both, it’s up to you.
- 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days.
- Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one.
- Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements.
- A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in.
- Monthly Wifi reimbursement.
- A yearly Learning & Development budget.
- 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada).
- Stock Options in the company.
- A competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually - we believe that the company’s success should be shared with our employees often
- For roles listed within the Sales Department, there is instead a competitive commissions structure which will be outlined during your first interview with Figment
- Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!
Other reasons you may love working at Figment
- We are a team of under 200 members, which allows for an impactful contribution from day one.
- We place a strong focus on personal career development to shape a role that fits your goals and interests. Your satisfaction and well-being matter to us, and we’re here to support your ongoing growth.
- Our culture is one of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high-growth environment.
- Our team members themselves recommend working at Figment - with an eNPS score of 54 (which is ranked as ‘great’!).
- We are also extremely proud of ranking as one of the top Web3 employers by Talent Titans.
Compensation
One of Figment’s core principles is “Making the Invisible Visible” - ensuring transparency and information sharing in all communication. Figment is committed to transparency regarding pay, benefits, and other compensation types for all internal roles as well as all roles being hired for.
Base Salary: The CAD base salary range for this position is CAD $140,000 - $175,000. The US base salary range for this position is USD $140,000 - $175,000. This range reflects base salary only, and does not include additional compensation or benefits. For candidates in other countries, the pay range will be disclosed upon your first interview with Figment (being a globally remote company, the list of salary ranges would simply be too long to note here!). The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum range for a new hire across all Canada or the US. A candidate’s specific pay within the range will be determined by various factors including job-related skills, relevant education, and training.
Interview process
At Figment, we try to go above and beyond in making sure that you have the best possible experience interviewing with us. We strive for a smooth, organized, and informative process.
- During your first Recruiter Call, you will be provided with more information about Figment, the position and what to expect for the rest of the interview process. Please be prepared to discuss why you are interested in joining Figment and what excites you about the position and company.
- As we go through the process, we work to make sure that you hear back from us in a timely fashion. If we decide at any point that we’re unfortunately not moving forward, we will give you feedback on why it was not a fit.
- We aim for the entire process to take around 2-3 weeks from initial screen to offer. There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule, that’s the time-frame you can expect.
See here for Figment's Privacy Policy and California Employee Privacy Policy.
At Figment, we have a thorough hiring process to verify the identity of all job candidates. This includes checking documents, conducting in-person interviews, biometric authentication and completing background checks. Candidates must pass all these steps to be considered for a job with Figment. Anyone who provides false information or tries to skip these steps will be disqualified from the hiring process immediately.
To learn more about Figment, our team, and the amazing work we are doing, visit our website. Are you ready to join us?
