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.
WeâÂÂre 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 staff backend engineer to join our engineering team and help build our user acquisition product offerings.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect and implement performant backend systems for our UA features
- Mentor junior team members on best practices to approaching large ambiguous problems
- Use and promote communicable paradigms such as SOLID to improve team and product quality
- Migrate legacy systems to a scalable maintainable state
QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of industry experience building distributed and scalable backend systems
- Expert knowledge of a backend language such as Javascript on Node.js, Python, or PHP
- Expert knowledge of Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis
- Experience with distributed systems and relational databases
- Experience with Adtech, DSPs, MMPs etc
- Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code
- Experience using design patterns and other engineering best practices
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Ability to add code quality tools to systems e.g. linters, static analysis, profilers, remote debuggers
- Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
BONUS POINTS
- Typescript, ML experience
- Passion for web3
- High level understanding of blockchain
- Passion for games
- Prior startup experience