One of the clients we're recruiting for has raised a $27M Series A Crypto startup and is looking to continue building out its engineering team by hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. Here are some more details:
Company:
Our client is a well funded crypto start-up that gives companies peace of mind as their apps scale, all with just a few lines of code. Powered by blockchain technology, they help companies outsource authentication and save on headcount for a dedicated security and fraud team.
Company Mission: To safeguard the trust between users and Internet services by establishing a secure, authentic digital identity, while building the passport of the internet.
Role:
- Scale data architectures to power new use cases i.e. evaluating and introducing best-fit data components such as Kafka on Confluent, Amazon Athena with S3 and/or ElastiCache for Redis.
- Build upon the foundation of existing databases, data architectures and data components to support and enhance the productivity of the entire engineering team.
- Scale databases (we run on MySQL) for a fast-growing environment i.e. planning and executing online DDL operations to evolving MySQL schemas for tables with millions of rows powering millions of transactions.
- Design and build backend systems that power the authentication experience while taking into consideration empathy towards our customers, developers, and users.
- Develop internal SLOs and SLIs to drive service reliability and to support external SLAs.
Required Experience:
- 4+ years of experience working as a backend and/or infrastructure engineer in a fast-paced complex environment
- Expert-level experience working with MySQL and Python in production (Go/Node is a plus)
- Strong foundation in database design, distributed system design and general backend
- Experience with cloud-hosted data components e.g. AWS RDS, AWS ElastiCache, etc.
- Experience leveraging data architectures and components to scale application backends
- Tech Stack: Web3, MySQL and Python in production (Go/Node is a plus), AWS
Salary range: $180-220k base + equity [depending on experience]
