Senior Software Engineer - Backend
At Foundation, we’ve spent the past few years perfecting onchain tools and infrastructure to connect creators with millions of collectors around the globe. We’ve always been committed to getting creators paid for their creativity, and we built a world-class marketplace that puts the power directly into creators’ hands to do exactly that.
Now, we're exploring a new frontier—web3 social. We believe that the internet should be decentralized, fun, and a place to make meaningful connections (and of course, money).
Introducing Rodeo—where creators build rich networks of collectors, and everyone has the tools to monetize their influence. From smart contracts to our community-centric design, we’re all about making your creativity count, and having fun while doing it. This ain’t our first rodeo, so saddle up and join us if you’re up for the ride.
- Ship features: You’ll work with product managers, infrastructure engineers, and frontend engineers to build infrastructure that unlocks new features.
- Nurture code: You’ll contribute high quality and maintainable code as you build features, and iteratively prune and simplify our code base as it evolves.
- Build and scale server infrastructure: you’ll build, maintain, and scale server infrastructure that empowers frontend engineers to build and iterate on features quickly and safely.
- Optimize production systems: You’ll help measure and optimize performance, reliability, and security KPIs for server and database infrastructure. You’ll participate in on-call rotations to ensure timely response to outages and vulnerabilities disclosures across production infrastructure.
- Technology: You have strong proficiency in at least one part of the stack and are fluent in multiple others. You understand how various parts of the stack interact with each other. You ship well tested, well structured, and maintainable code to our code base with no guidance.
- Systems: You own one or more aspects of a production system and are responsible for its KPIs and SLAs. You include error reporting, logging, monitoring, and alerting as part of feature development. You coordinate small to medium production releases without compromising the security, reliability, and performance of our systems.
- People: You proactively support other engineers in their work. You help others improve their tech, systems, or process proficiency through presentations, office hours, or informal mentorship.
- Process: You’re an active participant in team processes and help improve those process with actionable feedback. You own or are in a rotation to drive on one or more of these processes.
- Influence: You are responsible for medium to large features and ship those features on time and according to spec with no guidance. You can break features down into small to medium units of work for other engineers to work on. You clearly and proactively communicate progress, blockers, and decisions with engineers, product managers, and designers on your feature team. You are relied on to drive impact for one or more systems on your feature team.
- 5-8 years of experience building services on top of RDBMS like Postgres
- 5-8 years of experience building server infrastructure for consumer applications
- Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS
- Experience building GraphQL server endpoints
- Experience with the Python stack
- Experience with infra-as-code tooling like Terraform
- Preferred experience with NoSQL databases like ElasticSearch
- Preferred experience interacting with the web3 stack
Salary Range
$165,000 - $190,000 USD
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