Smart Contract Jobs

At Games for a living we develop exciting AAA blockchain games, as well as tools to help gamers and game developers benefit from crypto. We are looking for a Backend Engineer with experience in Web3 framework to help us build the next generation of Web3-based applications and products.

In this role, you will be responsible for the full product life-cycle of our upcoming crypto games and infrastructure, from development to launch and beyond. You will also be working on our 3rd party platform for developers, which will be a key piece of our technology stack.

We are a fast-paced and rapidly growing company, so we need someone who is able to work independently and take ownership of their projects. If you are a self-starter with a passion for blockchain technology and gaming, then we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Write code in Solidity.
• Rewrite and update code for our indexer.
• Ensure code follows latest coding practices and industry standards.
• Work closely with backend developers to understand and properly use the system's APIs.
• Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks.
• Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.
• Own off-chain services that maintain on-chain systems on several chains.
• Design and implementation of microservices to gaming and financial systems and payment networks.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Analyse requirements, vendor APIs, and translate into application designs.
• Implementation of security and data protection systems.
• Build applications according to the design and provide designers with feedback and suggest tradeoffs when required.

About you

Essential:

• Distributed networks: Blockchain; Consensus models or Rust or any Smart Contract programming language.
• 6+ years coding experience, experience with Solidity. Experience with GoLang will be nice to have.
• You have a working understanding of blockchains and smart contracts, and a birds-eye view of the state of L1 tech.
• You have familiarity with applied cryptography (merkle trees, ecdsa, etc)
• You have strong opinions on system design and code cleanliness.
• Experience developing technologically complicated products for untrained end-users.
• You are passionate about blockchain, have used DeFi dApps and believe in the opportunity of blockchains to change how the financial and gaming worlds are working today.
• You thrive in a startup environment and feel best working in a small, cross-functional team where you can roll up your sleeves and be hands-on.
• You have an interest in working in a self-organising environment and bring creativity to start your own initiatives within the EVM ecosystem.

Benefits:

• 25 days of paid holiday.
• Start-up atmosphere with free coffee & fruit, social events and cool office facilities.
• Front-row seat in the development of a Web3 future.
• Innovation-driven work environment.
• Work hands on with an outstanding team of video game professionals.

Important: No recruiters. Contractors will be considered, please include day rate and salary expectations in your application.

Think your skills match up? Please apply here and we would love to discuss further!