Senior Front-End Engineer, Zora labs
React Native, Product
$160-190k
Plus equity + tokens
More information about location
NFT auction marketplace
Job no longer available
NFT auction marketplace
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$160-190k
Plus equity + tokens
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Zora's mission is to build a new creator and community-owned economy.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
- Strong technical background building consumer- or user-facing applications at scale using React/React Native
- You’re comfortable working through the product lifecycle, partnering closely with Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers to bring ideas to life
- You have a strong product sense and keep user needs front and center when building and improving features
- Familiarity with crypto features and concepts
- A desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development and Web3
- EU or U.S. (EST) time zone
What the job involves
- Zora is a new kind of on-chain social network where you can express yourself freely, connect with others, and discover the value of your imagination. We believe that by using crypto, we can enable a more equitable system for creators, fundamentally rediscovering the power of the internet
- We’re working tirelessly to make Zora available to as many people as possible with a simple, fun, and rewarding consumer app. Our mission is to make creating on the internet free and valuable
- We’re looking for an experienced Front-End Engineer (React Native focus) to join our Social team, the team behind the core social experiences driving hundreds of millions in onchain activity on Zora
- You’ll play a key role in evolving our existing social features and bringing new ideas to life — from concept and design to launch. If you’re excited about shaping how people create, connect, and collect onchain, we’d love to have you on board
- Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers across the stack to build and continuously improve trading-related features
- Develop and maintain performant, scalable user interfaces across mobile and web
- Take ownership of projects end-to-end, working independently while seeking guidance from senior peers and managers as needed
- Communicate status, updates, blockers, etc., to cross-functional stakeholders
- Respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation
- Participate in RFC and code review
Our take
Zora is one of a number of companies leading the growth of pro-creator platforms in the Web3 space with its Ethereum-based NFT marketplace. The company was founded in 2020 as NFTs began to dominate headlines, and swiftly raised major funding as a potential competitor to the incumbent leader in this space, OpenSea.
Though its rival OpenSea is the undisputed leader in the NFT marketplace, a number of growing pains and controversies have led to a demand for more decentralized avenues.
Zora has moved swiftly to take advantage of the growing pains and controversies plaguing its rival, quickly gaining a customer base of individuals and companies looking for alternatives. One of Zora's major strengths is that the marketplace protocol that it creates is also used by a number of third-party sites. In essence, Zora is both a sales platform and a SaaS for other businesses.
While the future of NFTs is difficult to predict given the extreme volatility the sector has experienced since 2022, Zora looks well-positioned to thrive as long as the market does. That being said, it is branching out into the AI space, under the understanding that there is a crossover market between the aforementioned and crypto.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$50m
EARLY VC
Oct 2020
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $52m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible time-off policy
- New Macbook Pro for full-time employees
- Company equity
- Remote work
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Jacob Horne
(Co-founder)Involved in Crypto since 2015, while still studying. Joined Coinbase as a Product Designer out of university and became Product Manager, before co-founding Zora.
Slava Kim
(Co-founder)Served as a Lead Designer at online and mobile advertising company Rambler & Co, before joining Coinbase as a Product Designer.
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