Backend Engineer, Product

Summary

Join Zora, a revolutionary on-chain social network, as a Back-End Engineer to contribute to our core product engineering team. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining our protocol, API, and web and mobile applications, directly impacting millions of users. This position requires 3+ years of experience building scalable APIs and a strong technical background. The ideal candidate will have experience with blockchains, Python, GraphQL, and MongoDB. Zora offers top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible time off, a new Macbook Pro, and equity for full-time employees. We are an international company with employees worldwide.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an engineer
• Strong technical background building APIs at scale
• Proven track record of contributing effectively to projects
• Good communication and prioritization skills
• EU or U.S. (ET) time zone

Responsibilities

• Work with team to build out new features in the product
• Build and maintain an API used by the product as well as external partners
• Communicate status, updates, blockers, etc., to cross-functional stakeholders
• Respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation
• Participate in RFC and code review

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience building on top of blockchains
• Technical background in Python, GraphQL, and MongoDB
• Comfort moving across the stack when needed (TypeScript/React/Next and Solidity)
• Experience operating within high-ambiguity startup environments
• Good product intuition and understanding of user needs

Benefits

• ZORA provides top quality medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible time-off policy
• A new Macbook Pro for full-time employees
• Employees also receive equity