Design Engineer, OpenSea
$160-275k
+ Equity
Decentralised NFT marketplace
Job no longer available
Decentralised NFT marketplace
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-275k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shape an accessible and open digital economy for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4+ years in software engineering with an evident focus on Frontend Engineering
- Fluency in React, Next.js, and Tailwind
- Extreme design-oriented detail orientation and demonstrably good sense of craft
- Familiarity with best practices in crafting web animations & interactions
- Opinionated, autonomous, and proactive — you don’t wait to be told what to do. Fluency with programming in one of either JavaScript or TypeScript
- Familiarity or experience with blockchain tech not strictly required, but a strong genuine curiosity & enthusiasm for the technology is required
What the job involves
- Design Engineers straddle the line between being both technical contributors and product / brand designers — they specialize in producing extremely polished, delightful interactions and experiences that make static designs come to life
- This is a unique, specialized role with a mandate to bolster frontend engineering efforts across all of our products, improve core design system implementation & consistency, and act as a close collaborator (and often direct contributor) to the design process
- Work with design & frontend engineering teams to realize static designs into product experiences that have delightful interactions & polish with exceptional code quality, performance, and detail orientation
- Collaborate closely with designers by bringing a technical perspective to refining static design output and often directly contributing design concepts
- Improve and elevate core design system components and evangelize their consistent usage in OpenSea’s products
- Design and develop interactive marketing collateral such as landing pages in order to elevate OpenSea’s brand presence
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
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 HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
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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