Summary
Join Zora, a revolutionary on-chain social network, as a Senior Back-End Engineer and contribute to building our core product. You will lead projects, build and maintain APIs used by our product and external partners, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and participate in on-call rotations and code reviews. This role requires 5+ years of engineering experience, a strong technical background in building scalable APIs, and proven project leadership skills. Excellent communication and prioritization abilities are essential. Zora offers top-quality medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible time off, a new Macbook Pro, and equity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as an engineer
- Strong technical background building APIs at scale
- Proven track record of leading projects effectively
- Excellent communication and prioritization skills
- Ability to design and implement performant, durable systems that make smart tradeoffs between product needs and technical constraints
- U.S. time zone
Responsibilities
- Lead projects 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
- Deep technical expertise 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
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