Staff API/Back-End Engineer

A rapidly-growing company developing an NFT platform to unite the most established names and famous brands in sports, entertainment, and culture, is looking for a Staff API/Back-End Engineer. The selected candidate will be playing a leading role in maintaining, refining, and growing the company’s APIs and core services. The U.S.-based company is determined to build a world-class NFT, unique digital collections, and experiences for users. This position requires 6-8+ hours of overlap with the PST time zone.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive and execute several initiatives simultaneously
• Take ownership of assigned tasks and have opinions on the features you’re working on 
• Feature development for core infrastructure and APIs, from ideation to deployment
• Take charge of architecture planning (on the monolith, microservice, etc.) and integration 
• Write code, make sure it gets tested, and see it through to deployment
• Maintain and scale the existing services
• Establish a back-end that interacts with a plethora of services and platforms, encodes media in numerous ways, leverages queueing to manage real-time IPFS pinning and token minting, etc.
• Contribute to conversations around scaling and growing the services
• To execute platform requirements, collaborate with UX engineers and product managers
• Create software that is reliable, scalable, well-designed, simple to maintain, and well-tested
• Push and refine the company’s proprietary technologies, platforms, and creative practices

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
• Prior experience building APIs and back-end services using Node.js, Typescript, MongoDB, or similar technologies
• Prolific experience developing and/or integrating decentralized technologies, infrastructure, and data systems
• Experience using Git and version control as and when needed
• Eagerness to scale complicated things and work on web3
• Excellent English communication and collaboration skills
• Nice to have some prior startup experience 
• Adaptable and accountable in a dynamic environment
• Commitment to long-term impact