Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Zora labs
Platform Backend
+ Equity
NFT auction marketplace
Open for applications
NFT auction marketplace
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Zora's mission is to build a new creator and community-owned economy.
Role
Who you are
- Strong expertise in Python, particularly with asynchronous programming (asyncio)
- Deep understanding of Ethereum RPCs, smart contract interactions, and blockchain indexing patterns
- Solid experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs
- Hands-on experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration systems
- Practical experience working with databases such as Redis, MongoDB, and Postgres
- Proven ability to take ownership of complex systems and drive projects from concept to production
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on cross-team alignment and support
- Demonstrated mentorship skills and a commitment to helping teammates grow
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with time spent in platform or infrastructure-facing roles
- Background in Web3 or crypto, with familiarity in indexing blockchain data or interacting with EVM-compatible networks
- Experience operating at scale, including building high-throughput, low-latency APIs and systems with strong consistency requirements
- Familiarity with authentication and identity tools (e.g. Privy) and infrastructure/DevOps workflows
- Broader engineering experience across frontend or infrastructure domains is a plus
What the job involves
- ZORA is looking for experienced senior software engineers to work closely with the development team to ensure that the product meets the needs of the business and is scalable, including building or maintaining various product features
- Design and maintain a web3 indexer to ensure high data consistency and low indexing latency
- Work with our Data Scientist lead to build data pipelines, event instrument systems
- Collaborate with other backend team members to identify common backend problems or risks and build sharable frameworks to be used across the backend team
- Develop and maintain documentation for backend platforms, including architectural diagram, product design doc, dev ops runbook
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and processes to the team
- Lead troubleshooting efforts to identify and resolve indexer and data issues in a timely manner
- Monitor software performance and capacity, and implement proactive measures to ensure high availability
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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