Senior Software Engineer, Zora labs
Backend Product: Mint.Fun
NFT auction marketplace
Job no longer available
NFT auction marketplace
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
Zora's mission is to build a new creator and community-owned economy.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with languages such as Golong, Python and Rust
- Strong understanding of various web technologies, such as RestAPI, GraphQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka
- Solid understanding of software architecture and design principles
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to lead and mentor junior team members
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale software product solutions
- Experience of building software product all the way from the scratch
- Experience of scaling up a software product to handle large amount of traffic
- Experience with frontend development, good understanding of the backend and frontend integration
- Intrinsic motivation to take the ownership of the product you build
- Enjoy building software product and coding
- Strong desire to learn and explore new technologies
What the job involves
- ZORA is looking for experienced senior software engineers to work closely with the product team to ensure that the product development meets the needs of the business and is scalable, including building or maintaining various product features
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available product software solutions
- Develop and maintain documentation for software products, including architectural diagrams, product design doc, dev ops runbook
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify product priorities and implement product software solutions with high standard quality
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and processes to ensure the quality, reliability, testability and maintainability of a software product
- Lead troubleshooting efforts to identify and resolve product 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, some growing pains and controversies have led to a demand for more decentralised avenues.
Zora has moved swiftly to take advantage of these issues plaguing its rival, quickly gaining a customer base of individuals and companies looking for alternatives. One of Zora's major strengths is that its marketplace protocol 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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