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About Lava:

At Lava we believe blockchain data should be accurate and access to this data should be scalable, private, and uncensored.  Our mission is to create a marketplace for blockchain data via aligned token incentives and an open-source protocol for RPC nodes and APIs.  We are backed by some of the top crypto-native venture capital funds and angel investors.

With a deep technical background in cybersecurity, we have extensive experience in finding, exploiting, or patching digital vulnerabilities.  As a team we are accomplished founders, CTOs, engineers, and business people inspired to support the creativity blockchains are unlocking and its future applications.  

Lava is remote-first with team members from across the world. 

Where we need help:

Engineers from across the world are working together to build on our open source code-base built on the Cosmos SDK ecosystem. Lava Network is seeking a meticulous, frontend-focused Full Stack Team Lead to join our rapidly growing team.

Job duties:

• Lead scrum team through planning, daily meeting and execution, and retrospective
• Mentor and grow team members through 1:1 meetings, tech design, code review, testing and problem solving
• Work closely with Product manager on the roadmap, sprint and user stories.
• Work closely with DevOps team to make the team and dev cycle more efficient
• Work with other R&D teams to progress company-wide projects
• Make technological Research and proof of concepts for innovative ideas and new technology
• Reporting directly to SVP Engineering

Technical Knowledge:

• Full stack development with Nodejs, Typescript, Next JS, React, Golang
• Web protocols: HTTP 1.1/2, WebSockets, GRPC, REST, JsonRPC
• Databases - Postgresql
• Working in containerized environment (Docker, Kuberenets)
• Working in cloud environment (AWS/GCP) and cloud native tools such as LBs, Api Gateway
• Backend architecture such as Pub-Sub, 3-layer app, Event streaming, Serverless, GraphQL, NoSQL,
• Production engineering:
• Handling production environment, monitoring, alerts, debugging, etc
• Deployment strategies: Canary, Gradual rollouts
• Working in a CI/CD environment

About our Culture:
We are passionate about what we're doing and our distributed global team is already working well together from 8 different countries.  We feel our shared values are the secret to our energized culture. 

Our Values:

1. We are learning and unafraid of asking basic questions
2. We each take the initiative, we are capable and reliable
3. We respect each other's time because it is valuable
4. We choose our battles
5. Feedback delivered with kindness is great, even if difficult to say or hear
6. We listen with the intent to understand and change our mind
7. We pick up the phone to resolve friction
8. We take ownership of misses and direct praise to the team
9. We choose joy to increase positivity