Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join OpenSea, the world's first and largest NFT marketplace, as a Staff Backend Engineer and spearhead core features of OpenSea 2.0 backend. As a remote-first company, we offer flexibility and the opportunity to work from anywhere. You will be responsible for forming and executing a technical vision, writing reliable, low-latency marketplace infrastructure software, raising the bar for internal best practices, and mentoring team members. This role requires at least 6 years of software engineering experience, strong fluency in event-driven system design patterns and JVM languages, and expertise in database design. The base salary ranges from $190,000 to $345,000 plus benefits and equity. We encourage applications even if you don't meet all criteria.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience as a software engineer
• Strong fluency in event-driven system design patterns, leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Flink, and Debezium, as well as distributed systems more generally
• Strong fluency in JVM languages like Kotlin or Java
• Strong fluency and opinionated in database choice and schema design for highly performant and scalable applications
• Intrinsic interest in leveraging new tools (e.g. AI) to increase work efficiency and quality

Responsibilities

• Form, communicate, and execute on a technical vision for the next generation of OpenSea’s architecture that leverages highly scalable and event-driven patterns
• Write reliable, low latency marketplace infrastructure software that will eventually process billions of dollars a day worth of transaction volume, including highly performant blockchain indexing systems, order management systems at scale, and REST & Websocket API endpoints
• Raise the bar for internal understanding of best practices in building highly performant & event-driven systems with “live” characteristics
• Mentor and train other team members and act as an internal thought leader and agitator for architectural rigor and cleanliness

Preferred Qualifications

Passion for (blockchain) technology, NFTs, and the potential of digital ownership is a huge plus

Benefits

• The base salary for this full-time position, which spans across multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $190,000 to $345,000 plus benefits & equity
• Remote work