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.
Weâre 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 Lead Engineer to join and oversee the blockchain team, responsible for integrating the Stardust API with our currently supported and future blockchains. This Lead Engineer will be a hands on player coach, managing and building with the team of blockchain developers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage and develop a team of high performing blockchain engineers
- Write and review code in a specific instance
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to set service-level objectives, improve observability, ensure production readiness, optimize service and system performance and facilitate incident response and follow up
- Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics
- Partner with Engineering teams to teach and demonstrate industry best practices
- Facilitate incident response, conduct root cause analysis and blameless retrospectives
- Automate operational tasks such as load testing
- Help partners design and implement reliable system architectures
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 7 years of combined experience in software development
- Minimum of 3 years of hands on experience in blockchain development
- Minimum of 2 years of engineering people management experience
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in Javascript / Typescript
- Expert knowledge of design patterns and engineering best practices
- Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance
- A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
- Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
- Experience designing and building reliable systems
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- Self sufficient, great communication
BONUS POINTS
- AWS Lambda experience
- Postgres experience
- Passion for blockchain
- Passion for games
- Worked at a startup before