Offer summary

Qualifications:

Proven experience in building REST and WebSocket APIs for scalable backend services., Strong knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript, particularly with React., Ability to refactor and scale existing products while ensuring performance and security., Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools is a plus..

Key responsibilities:

Develop and maintain web applications and services for the metaverse.

Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to align on platform goals and deliver solutions.

Identify and resolve bottlenecks while enhancing existing code for efficiency and scalability.

Participate in the continuous deployment process and manage infrastructure provisioning.

Job description

The Challenge

As Decentraland contributors, we are actively seeking for an experienced full-stack engineer with strong backend capabilities to join our remote-friendly team creating the tools to build the metaverse. You will be in charge of developing Web applications and services along with the required infrastructure. Our ideal candidate has a proactive personality with a strong sense of ownership and initiative.

The ideal candidate should feel comfortable and excited about:

- Developing new features, iterating fast, and creating innovative solutions to complex problems

- Dealing with existing code and products to provide support and make them more efficient, scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable

- Interacting with other teams and stakeholders to understand the short, medium and long-term platform goals and bring them to life

- Identifying problems and bottlenecks and creating innovative solutions for them

The Tech Stack - These are the technologies that the Core Team uses on a daily basis:

TypeScript (both server & browser)

Node.js for servers

React, Redux

Open API

AWS for infrastructure hosting

GitHub Actions & Workflows and GitLab for continuous deployment

Pulumi for the infrastructure provisioning

Metabase, Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch for observability

CloudFlare for CDN, hosting, security and analytics

PostgreSQL, REDIS

The Requirements

Experienced building REST and WebSocket APIs in scalable backend services

Experience working with React and extensive knowledge in but not limited to TypeScript/JavaScript

Experience with Service-to-Service communication (e.g. messing queues, NATs, message brokers, etc) and Security protection measurements

Ability to understand existing products, refactor and scale them

Experience building, publishing, and maintaining software in production environments

Experience working with performance, security and DBs

Sharing our core values: create with passion, care about the future, done is better than perfect, own it, enjoy the ride

The Nice-to-Haves

Familiarity with blockchain-based technologies

Experience with decentralized technology

Experience contributing to Open Source projects

Experience managing the infra provision

Experience working on a distributed team spread across several time zones

Experience with real time communications

What we Offer:

A fully remote and flexible working environment.

A collaborative and fast-paced team culture.

The opportunity to work in a cutting-edge industry and make a direct impact on our company’s growth.

29 annual PTOs

Long term incentive of MANA tokens, vested in a 4 years period.

Additional tokens linked to annual performance review.

Stipend policy to cover remote work & wellness related expenses

Brand new equipment for remote work, including laptop, screen and chair.

Parental leave

Language lessons

About Decentraland Foundation

The Decentraland Foundation is a steward of the Decentraland platform, dedicated to ensuring its long-term growth, security, and sustainability. It contributes to core development, platform infrastructure, and ecosystem health. Its responsibilities include managing Decentraland’s brand and events, safeguarding the community from misinformation and scams, maintaining smart contract security, contributing to the platform's codebase, and proposing critical updates in coordination with the DAO. As a neutral actor in service of the ecosystem, the Foundation works to foster innovation and empower creators, developers, and communities within Decentraland.

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