Senior Full Stack Engineer, Big Time Studios
South America
Gaming studio integrating NFTs
Job no longer available
Gaming studio integrating NFTs
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive knowledge of Node.js, its strengths and its weaknesses
- Experience architecting scalable Node.js applications
- Strong programming background and knowledge of JavaScript (ES6/ES7), TypeScript
- Strong problem-solving abilities
- Prior experience working on shipped full-stack applications. Experience with AWS and Docker
- Experience with SQL database, database design, as well as NoSQL database paradigms
- Experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- Some familiarity with C++
- Must love games!
Desirable
- Experience with Game Development
- Blockchain experience (Ethereum)
- Front-end design experience
- Experience with react
- Experience creating and maintaining REST APIs in node/typescript
- Experience interacting or creating subgraphs in thegraph
What the job involves
- Own the technical design and implementation of robust, scalable and extensible online services
- Collaborate with the engineering team to implement back-end services for our upcoming game
- Build web services to interact with the blockchain as well as game servers
- Optimize and debug complex systems spanning multiple services and providers
- Build robust, extensible and easily maintained code
Our take
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have become a popular commodity, and Big Time Studios is bringing them into the world of gaming. The company is developing the world’s first action game based on crypto technology, with the view to making NFTs accessible to a mass-market audience.
The company is creating technology that other gaming companies will be able to deploy but, in order to get to market and prove the concept, the studio is developing the first game of this kind, "Big Time". The title is an action role-playing game in which players acquire and trade NFT-based items, that has industry veterans from studios such as EpicGames and Blizzard on board for development.
With the ultimate goal of becoming the gold standard for what NFTs and crypto can offer gamers, the company was both well-regarded and anticipated in the community. Unfortunately, rather than invest the capital it raised from this anticipation into growth, the company invested in high-risk crypto lender Genesis, which has since become embroiled in the FTX scandal and filed for bankruptcy.
Despite the rather large setback, it is entirely possible that Big Time Studios still had a sizable runway yielded from the crypto boom, and only time will tell if the company manages to progress beyond this. For now, "Big Time" remains in closed Beta, only accessible to players holding NFT passes, and there is no way to tell when new news of the project will be announced.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$10.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.3m
Company benefits
- Fully remote work
- Yearly company offsite
- Flexible PTO
- Experience creating a new IP with franchise potential
- Experience working with gaming veterans of game titles with a gross aggregate revenue well over $10B USD
Company HQ
Historic Core, Los Angeles, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ari Meilich
(CEO)Previously co-founded Benchrise. Served as a Project Lead for Decentraland, acting now as an Advisor. Experience in Neuroscience Research for Brown University, New York University, and as a Market Research Analyst for CRV.
Thor Alexander
(President & Executive Producer)Previously founded Lucky Puppy, acting as CEO, and MMP Game Development, serving here as an Editor. Experience as Vice President of Production for Decentraland, Executive Producer for Zynga, Director of Product Management for Metaplace, and Development Director of Electronic Arts (EA).
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