Senior Backend Engineer, AstroDAO

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About The Role:

The Applications team is looking for a person to work on our core products to build out applications on NEAR.  These projects will connect a variety of services and applications creating a unified experience for creators and builders.  The scope as it currently stands, is open-ended, but some projects will be likely from the following areas: governance, tokenomics, decentralized finance, gaming, social, NFTs, business productivity, and tools.

In this role, you will build, improve, and maintain a large user-facing product that will connect multiple services together, provide controls and intelligence to those building and managing projects and applications on the NEAR Protocol all while perfect user experience.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Building end-to-end full stack product;
• Collaborating with internal and external engineers and community members
• Participating in the on-call rotation together with other engineers

• What We’re Looking For:

  • Ability to drive the API development for web and mobile applications
  • The ability to solve all sorts of backend engineering tasks
  • Fluency in TypescriptJavascript and web standards
  • Ideally 2+ years experience building production applications, libraries, APIs
  • Experience and interest in building and documenting tools
  • Experience with managing applications on cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
  • Strong communication and remote friendly working skills
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field is a must

  • We’d Love If You Have:

    • Understanding of React (Next.js) practices (such as state management solutions, and server-side rendering)
    • Open source contributions and previous or continued involvement in open source communities
    • Familiarity with Ethereum development and related technologies (web3.js, ethers.js, etc)
    • Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies
    • Experience working at a startup

    • Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:Depending on calendar availability, from the first stage to the final stage, we do our best to keep the entire process to under three weeks. Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

      • Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
      • Meet with the Hiring Manager (30-45 minutes)
      • Technical Interviews (4 x 60 minutes) 
      • Culture & Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)

      • Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

        Ideal Location For This Role:This is a fully remote role, so that your timezone matches or overlaps with our leader for this role, you’ll ideally be located anywhere.