Foundation is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Foundation, a company specializing in web3 technologies. The role involves building server infrastructure, shipping features, optimizing production systems, and collaborating with other engineers. The ideal candidate has 5-6 years of experience building server infrastructure for consumer applications, 3-5 years of experience building services on top of RDBMS like Postgres, experience with the Python stack, GraphQL server endpoints, cloud providers like AWS, NoSQL databases like ElasticSearch, and preferably infra-as-code tooling like Terraform and experience interacting with the web3 stack. The salary range is $165,000 - $180,000 a year. Benefits include flexible paid time off, annual team offsite, tech equipment, home office stipend, medical, dental, and vision coverage, baby bonding time for all new parents, access to mental health services, getting paid in crypto or fiat, employer sponsored 401K, and a culture that values inclusivity.

Requirements

• Technology:. You have strong proficiency in at least one part of the stack and are fluent in multiple others. You understand how various parts of the stack interact with each other. You ship well tested, well structured, and maintainable code to our code base with no guidance
• Systems:. You own one or more aspects of a production system and are responsible for its KPIs and SLAs. You include error reporting, logging, monitoring, and alerting as part of feature development. You coordinate small to medium production releases without compromising the security, reliability, and performance of our systems
• People:. You proactively support other engineers in their work. You help others improve their tech, systems, or process proficiency through presentations, office hours, or informal mentorship
• Process. : You’re an active participant in team processes and help improve those process with actionable feedback. You own or are in a rotation to drive on one or more of these processes
• Influence:. You are responsible for medium to large features and ship those features on time and according to spec with no guidance. You can break features down into small to medium units of work for other engineers to work on. You clearly and proactively communicate progress, blockers, and decisions with engineers, product managers, and designers on your feature team. You are relied on to drive impact for one or more systems on your feature team
• Experience:. 5-6 years of experience building server infrastructure for consumer applications, 3-5 years of experience building services on top of RDBMS like Postgres, Experience with the Python stack, Experience building GraphQL server endpoints, Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS, Experience with NoSQL databases like ElasticSearch, Preferred Experience with infra-as-code tooling like Terraform, Preferred Experience interacting with the web3 stack

Responsibilities

• Ship features: You’ll work with product managers, infrastructure engineers, and frontend engineers to build infrastructure that unlocks new features
• Nurture code:. You’ll contribute high quality and maintainable code as you build features, and iteratively prune and simplify our code base as it evolves
• Build and scale server infrastructure: You’ll build, maintain, and scale server infrastructure that empowers frontend engineers to build and iterate on features quickly and safely
• Optimize production systems:. You’ll help measure and optimize performance, reliability, and security KPIs for server and database infrastructure. You’ll participate in on-call rotations to ensure timely response to outages and vulnerabilities disclosures across production infrastructure

Benefits

• A culture that values inclusivity
• Flexible paid time off
• Annual team offsite
• All of the tech you need to be successful
• A home office stipend
• Robust medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including a zero cost option (for countries that provide government-sponsored health insurance, we offer a monthly stipend towards private health insurance)
• 6 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents, as well as 6 weeks of paid leave for birth giving parents
• Access to Talkspace confidential online therapy and One Medical on-demand primary care
• Get paid in crypto or fiat
• Employer sponsored 401K