Staff Backend Engineer

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🕒 March 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $345k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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OpenSea

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🛍️ eCommerce

🎮 Gaming

eCommerce • Gaming • Art

OpenSea is the world’s first and largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It provides a platform where users can buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital items across various categories including art, gaming, photography, and music. OpenSea aims to facilitate a seamless experience for users engaging in the rapidly evolving world of digital assets.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Benefits: We cover 100% Dental/Vision/Medical for employees and 90% for dependents • Flexible Time Off Policy: Our flexible time off policy is aimed at letting our employees take as much time off as they'd like to refresh so long as it doesn't interfere with their ability to meet their goals and contribute effectively to company velocity • Parental Leave: 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Bonding & up to 8 additional weeks for the birthing parent • Mental Health: We offer access to Spring Health, covering 8 therapy & 8 coaching sessions per year • 11 Company Holidays • Fidelity 401K Plan • Internet/Mobile Reimbursement Plan • Reimbursement or Monthly Snack Delivery • Company & Team retreats to get together for fun and collaboration • Team Member Co-Working and Gathering Expense • MacBook Pro & WFH Stipend to make sure you are set up for success • Weekly $50 Uber Eats credit