Backend Engineer, Story Protocol
Full Stack
$170-230k
3 days a week in office
IP infrastructure for the internet era
Open for applications
IP infrastructure for the internet era
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$170-230k
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower creators by providing a blockchain-based platform where the evolution of creative IP—whether it's prose, images, audio, or more—can be transparently tracked, attributed, and monetized.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Math/Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in full-stack development, with a specialized focus on the design and implementation of application development, frontend/backend services. Strong experience in designing, developing API and SDK is preferred
- Extensive experience with open-source development, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding and experience of the open-source development process and community engagement
- Proven passion for, and understanding of, blockchain and web3 technologies, cryptocurrency, NFT, reflected in either professional experience or personal interests
- An ambitious and communicative team player, eager to learn, and possessing the initiative to drive projects forward
- Bay Area or willing to relocate. 3 times a week working in office
What the job involves
- As a Full Stack Engineer with a focus on backend services at our crypto startup, you will take ownership of the design and implementation of the service architecture, including APIs and SDKs
- Collaborating closely with frontend developers and smart contract engineers, you will develop the vital middle layer of our platform, ensuring seamless interaction between user interfaces and blockchain components
- Thriving in our fast-paced startup environment, you must be proactive and adaptable, able to take the initiative even when requirements are unclear
- Your role will also entail working directly with partners and external contributors, guiding them through the onboarding process, and assisting them in building applications on top of our unique protocol
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of the backend services, APIs, and integrations, closely working with smart contract engineers and app developers to ensure alignment with blockchain components
- Design, implement, and maintain SDKs across various languages such as TypeScript, GoLang, Python, to provide compatibility and seamless integration across platforms
- Facilitate integration with other service providers, including but not limited to payment gateways, wallet services, AIGC services, and storage solutions
- Establish, uphold, and continually refine best practices for creating and maintaining applications that are secure, stable, and scalable. Proactively apply Open Source development processes and methodologies to support these standards
- Produce comprehensive API/SDK documentation, enabling business partners and developers to effectively utilize our platform's capabilities
Our take
Utilizing the advances in blockchain technology, Story Protocol is a tech company that creates a streamlined framework that can manage the intellectual property of gaming, prose, media, and audio. Owners of properties built upon the Story Protocol IP software can track their work’s origin which gives freedom to other individuals to remix and build upon existing works with the blessing of the creator. These reworkings are also provided with value by the IP framework.
Intellectual property has become a gold rush as of late, with companies such as Microsoft bidding huge prices for the likes of the Call of Duty games series. With new and valuable IPs being created daily and for next-gen platforms and media services, legacy IP tracking services can’t keep up with the rate of new creations. Story Protocol creates a permissionless protocol that creators can extend to other users, all stored within a global IP registry. The ultimate aim is to create a safe and secure creative ecosystem for IP.
With impressive funding from large investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Story Protocol is off to a strong start, reflecting the hunger for new ways to manage IP across the entertainment industry. Investors clearly see Story Protocol as a major industry disruptor, especially with its lofty aims of dispelling gatekeepers and democratizing intellectual property.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2024
$80m
SERIES B
Sep 2023
$24.7m
SEED
Total funding: $134m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jason Levy
(Co-Founder)Previously the Founder and CEO of World Between Worlds. Also worked as a Director of Episode Originals at Pocket Gems, a Product Manager Intern at Amazon and a Senior Financial Analyst at Apple.
Jason Zhao
(Co-Founder)Co-founder of PIP Labs. Previously worked in Product at DeepMind.
Seung Yoon Lee
(Co-Founder & CEO)Current Venture Partner at Hashed and Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. Previously Global Strategy Officer at Kakao Entertainment and CEO and Founder at Radish Fiction.
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