Staff Software Engineer, Backend
sound.xyz
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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About the role
- Set the technical direction for the team and help guide engineering vision
- Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
- Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core backend infrastructure
- Develop a robust product-focused API layer used by front-end developers and eventually external developers building on top of Sound
- Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
- Improve our real-time blockchain data pipelines
- Collaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility into service/site health
- Develop best practices for backend application development
- Mentor and train other engineers on the team
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience writing production software.
- Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
Benefits
- We offer top-of-the-line benefits, including health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Remote-first teamwork with team and community members around the world
- Work-from-home/remote office stipend
- Team offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in person
- Passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend infrastructureAPI developmentcode qualitydeveloper experienceblockchain data pipelinescontinuous integrationcontinuous deploymentloggingmetricsbest practices
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solving