Staff Backend Engineer, Product

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Zora

πŸ“Remote - Worldwide

Summary

Join Zora, a revolutionary on-chain social network, as a Staff Back-end Engineer. You will be part of a core product engineering team responsible for developing our protocol, API, and web and mobile applications. Your work will directly impact millions of users. Lead large-scale projects, build and maintain APIs, and act as a technical leader, mentoring other engineers and contributing to code reviews. Ensure engineering excellence in maintainability and performance. Coordinate incident response for critical services. This role requires 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years as a tech lead, a strong technical background in building scalable APIs, and exceptional communication skills. The ideal candidate will have experience with blockchains, Python, GraphQL, and MongoDB.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as an engineer, ideally 2+ as a tech lead
  • Strong technical background building APIs at scale (and ideally applications as well)
  • Proven track record of working effectively with cross-functional partners like product, design, and marketing
  • Exceptional communication and prioritization skills
  • Experience setting the hiring bar and shaping interview processes for engineering teams
  • Ability to design and implement performant, durable systems that make smart tradeoffs between product needs and technical constraints
  • Demonstrated success in delivering products consistently to external users
  • EU or U.S. (ET) time zone

Responsibilities

  • Drive engineering excellence in maintainability, performance, and attention to detail, balancing pragmatism and polish
  • Lead larger-scale projects to build out major new features in the product
  • Build and maintain an API used by the product as well as external partners
  • Act as a standard-bearer across the team through technical leadership: writing well-reasoned technical RFCs, contributing to RFC and code reviews, pair programming, mentoring other engineers, sharing knowledge through talks and demos
  • Coordinate incident response for critical services, ensuring rapid recovery and systematic fixes to address root causes

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
  • Strong product intuition and a keen eye for design

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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