Stardust is hiring a
Staff Engineer

Summary

Join our engineering team and help build user acquisition product offerings as a staff engineer.

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience building distributed and scalable backend systems
• Expert knowledge of a backend language such as Javascript on Node.js, Python, or PHP; Typescript a huge plus
• Expert knowledge of Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis
• Experience with distributed systems and relational databases
• Experience with Adtech, DSPs, MMPs etc
• 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

• Architect and implement performant backend systems for our UA features
• 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

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