Develop web applications and services for the metaverse, focusing on backend capabilities, feature development, refactoring, and collaboration with stakeholders.
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Cloudflare
Cloudwatch
Github Actions
Gitlab
Grafana
Metabase
Node.js
Open Api
Postgres
Prometheus
Pulumi
React
Redis
Redux
Typescript
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