Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Stardust as a senior software engineer to help build our gaming infrastructure and adtech product offerings, leveraging machine learning and building a data processing system.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience building distributed and scalable backend systems
• 2+ years of Adtech experience, especially working on a demand side platform (DSP) a HUGE PLUS
• Proficient in a backend language such as Javascript / Typescript on Node.js, Python, or other relevant languages
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Proficient knowledge of Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis
• Experience with distributed systems and relational databases
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code
• Experience using design patterns and other engineering best practices
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
• Ability to add code quality tools to systems e.g. linters, static analysis, profilers, remote debuggers
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to our ads product leveraging machine learning and building a data processing system
• Mentor junior team members on best practices to approaching large ambiguous problems
• Use and promote communicable paradigms such as SOLID to improve team and product quality
• Migrate legacy systems to a scalable maintainable state

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior ML experience
• Passion for web3 and / or games
• High level understanding of blockchain
• Prior startup experience