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Staff Backend Engineer

Stardust

Stardust

Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Mar 15, 2024

Stardust empowers game developers leveraging blockchain to scale to millions of players and NFTs with custodial wallets and a secure platform; providing players and developers with a frictionless experience while playing and building games.

Our mission is to help developers do what they do best, build incredible great games. We're building the future of gaming - and we don't say that lightly. We're developing backend technology to power new gamer-first economies.

We’re looking for players who think big, build bigger, and want to turn crazy ideas into reality. Are you ready to play?

ROLE

Stardust seeks a staff backend engineer to join our engineering team and help build our user acquisition product offerings.

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

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 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
  • 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

BONUS POINTS

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