Staff Backend Engineer, Zora labs

Product

Salary not provided

React

MongoDB

TypeScript

Python

GraphQL

Solidity

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US

More information about location

NFT auction marketplace

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NFT auction marketplace

21-100 employees

B2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceWeb 3.0

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

React

MongoDB

TypeScript

Python

GraphQL

Solidity

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceWeb 3.0

Company mission

Zora's mission is to build a new creator and community-owned economy.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of experience as an engineer, ideally 2+ as a tech lead
Strong technical background building APIs at scale (and ideally applications as well)
Proven track record of working effectively with cross-functional partners like product, design, and marketing
Exceptional communication and prioritization skills
Experience setting the hiring bar and shaping interview processes for engineering teams
Ability to design and implement performant, durable systems that make smart tradeoffs between product needs and technical constraints
Demonstrated success in delivering products consistently to external users

Desirable

Prior experience building on top of blockchains
Deep technical expertise in Python, GraphQL, and MongoDB
Comfort moving across the stack when needed (TypeScript/React/Next and Solidity)
Experience operating within high-ambiguity startup environments
Strong product intuition and a keen eye for design

What the job involves

We’re looking for a staff back-end engineer to join one of our core product engineering teams, responsible for shipping our protocol, API, and web and mobile apps. Your work will directly impact millions of users interacting with our products
Drive engineering excellence in maintainability, performance, and attention to detail, balancing pragmatism and polish
Lead larger-scale projects to build out major new features in the product
Build and maintain an API used by the product as well as external partners
Act as a standard-bearer across the team through technical leadership: writing well-reasoned technical RFCs, contributing to RFC and code reviews, pair programming, mentoring other engineers, sharing knowledge through talks and demos
Coordinate incident response for critical services, ensuring rapid recovery and systematic fixes to address root causes

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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