Staff Backend Engineer, OpenSea
$190-345k
+ Equity
Decentralised NFT marketplace
Open for applications
Decentralised NFT marketplace
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$190-345k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shape an accessible and open digital economy for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- At least 6 years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong fluency in event-driven system design patterns, leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Flink, and Debezium, as well as distributed systems more generally
- Strong fluency in JVM languages like Kotlin or Java
- Strong fluency and opinionated in database choice and schema design for highly performant and scalable applications
- Intrinsic interest in leveraging new tools (e.g. AI) to increase work efficiency and quality
- Passion for (blockchain) technology, NFTs, and the potential of digital ownership is a huge plus
What the job involves
- We're looking for an ambitious, detail-oriented Staff Backend Engineer with an enthusiasm for building and scaling feature-rich, well-tested, and polished applications with modern technologies
- This individual will spearhead core features of the OpenSea 2.0 backend
- Form, communicate, and execute on a technical vision for the next generation of OpenSea’s architecture that leverages highly scalable and event-driven patterns
- Write reliable, low latency marketplace infrastructure software that will eventually process billions of dollars a day worth of transaction volume, including highly performant blockchain indexing systems, order management systems at scale, and REST & Websocket API endpoints
- Raise the bar for internal understanding of best practices in building highly performant & event-driven systems with “live” characteristics
- Mentor and train other team members and act as an internal thought leader and agitator for architectural rigor and cleanliness
Our take
OpenSea is a peer-to-peer digital marketplace for NFTs or uniquely identifiable digital items. These items are authenticated with blockchain and are part of a new internet economy that consists of digital products representing art, game characters, domain names, and event tickets.
The OpenSea platform allows users to both purchase NFTs or list digital items for sale. The platform initially encountered speed issues when NFT trading boomed due to the limitations of the Ethereum blockchain technology it was using. However, the company has transitioned to a new blockchain system, Polygon, which has mitigated the problem.
In the wake of the FTX collapse the NFT world has been shaken up, and new competitors have arisen to take advantage of the disruption. One such rival, Blur, overtook OpenSea's market lead in 2023. This has led to OpenSea changing its policies and fee structures to be more favourable to creators in a bid to retake its crown. It remains to be seen whether Blur and other rivals will be able to keep up the pressure, but it's clear that OpenSea will need to innovate if it wants to remain at the head of the market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $427.3m
Company benefits
- Paid family leave
- Health insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Flexible hours
- Workshops & conferences
- Travel & company retreats
Company values
- Trust comes first
- Dive deep
- Build an ocean, not an aquarium
- Take the helm
- Iron sharpens iron
- High quality, high velocity
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
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Leadership
Devin Finzer
(CEO & Co-Founder)Started their career as a Pinterest Software Engineer, before leaving after almost 2 years to co-found Iris Labs and Claimdog. They left their Engineering Manager role at Credit Karma in December 2017 to co-found OpenSea.
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