Blackbird Jobs

About Blackbird:

Established in 2022, Blackbird Labs is a loyalty, memberships, and payments platform leveraging cutting-edge software to establish meaningful and ongoing connections between the world’s finest restaurants and their customers. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, AMEX, Union Square Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird was founded by a team with a proven track record of using technology to revolutionize the restaurant industry. We invite you to join us in building the next great restaurant thrill ride.

Key Responsibilities:

• Make crucial architectural decisions that will shape the future of the business.
• Develop and implement engineering best practices and systems.
• Partner with product and design teams on feature prioritization and implementation, focusing on user experience as a key differentiator.
• Navigate daily usage and structure of virtual containers like Docker.
• Work with queue-based architecture and distributed systems.
• Apply ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) principles to handle concurrency, locking, and race conditions.

Must-have Skills and Qualifications:

• Proficient in a statically typed language like Java or Kotlin.
• Familiarity with modern best practices in engineering and systems development.
• Proven track record of building, launching, and iterating on successful financial or web3 products.
• Extensive experience with Postgres and understanding of ACID(atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability)
• Functional and conversational understanding of Docker or equivalent virtual container systems.
• Experience with queue architecture, ideally equivalent to SQS/SNS minimum.
• Sound knowledge of signing, hashing, and secure usage of common cryptography in relation to blockchain.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with No-SQL systems, RDS, and DevOps.
• Prior experience in blockchain, if confident with the underlying cryptography technology.

Benefits and Perks:

We offer competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, flexible vacation, and a parental leave program. We celebrate diversity and encourage everyone to be their authentic self at work. Blackbird Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by law.

Compensation:$180k - $220k Annually