Senior Web3 Engineer, Backend

Magic's aims to bring "a wallet to every internet user," focusing on simplifying the onboarding of mainstream users into the Web3 ecosystem and enabling Web3-powered use cases for customers.

Since our founding in 2018, we’ve onboarded over 25 million users and 170,000 developers into the Web3 ecosystem and enabled Web3 use cases for prominent brands such as Mattel and Forbes, while powering some of the top Web3 customers such as Polymarket, Helium, Immutable, and WalletConnect. We’ve also raised over $80 million from notable investors, including PayPal Ventures, Lightspeed, Placeholder, SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, and Balaji Srinivasan.

Our team is deeply passionate about Magic's mission. Joining Magic means partnering with the best minds in Web3 to shape our industry. We foster an environment that promotes peak performance by offering robust support through a collaborative culture, opportunities to make a meaningful impact, and a suite of top-tier benefits.

If you are excited to shape the future of Web3, let's chat!

The Role

As a Software Engineer at Magic, you will play a pivotal role in building out the future of onboarding users to web3 applications. You will be building new services from the ground up, launching core features for our customers (end-users and developers alike), as well as finding ways to scale and improve our existing systems. You will act as a key player on the Magic engineering team to help build and ship features that support authentication and wallet service flows that will onboard the next billion users to web3.

Experience in building products in the web3 space is required for this position. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of blockchain technologies, smart contracts, wallets and dApps. To flourish in this role, we expect that you are active both personally and professionally in web3, using dApps, reading news, and building in the space.

This role reports directly to our VP of Engineering. This position is fully remote, and we'd love to see applicants across the US and Canada, with a slight preference for hybrid NYC talent. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship (ex., H-1B transfer) of employment visas at this time, and applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada.

You will:

• Our Engineering team creates and supports stable, scalable blockchain, key management, platform and data services to support Magic experiences. This includes our patented technology DKMS along with future innovations in KMS, Blockchain, and NFT minting services.
• Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across the company to bring new features and products to Magic users.
• Build software that impacts every Magic user, whether they’re an end-user, developer, or partner. Key projects include Blockchain, our patented Delegated Key Management System (DKMS) and future innovations, NFT minting, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with backend and frontend developers to deliver new features and improve existing features.
• Implement best practices and create and update documentation to help improve your peers' development experience.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
• Help debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

You have: 

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
• A strong technical background, with 4+ years of experience in backend and API development. 
• Experience working with MySQL and Python in production. 
• Excitement about building the future of web3 and democratizing access to a user-centered web. Familiarity with the modular blockchain stack i.e cross chain protocols (LayerZero, Hyperlane, etc.), intents, account abstraction. 
• A collaborative and motivated mindset with a drive to build in a fast-paced startup environment.
• A strong sense of ownership and anything can be done attitude.
• The ability to listen well and collaborate with other team members to make the team more efficient.
• Experience working with secure enclaves i.e AWS Nitrosis a plu!

Why you'll love working with us:

• Remote-first culture with flexible working hours
• Competitive salary with stock options
• 99% company-paid medical*, dental and vision insurance; 100% company-paid life and disability insurance
• 401(k) plan* (US) or pension plan (CAN)
• $3,600 annual reimbursement for remote work, wellness and professional development
• Flexible time off
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Family planning and reproductive health benefits, including up to $5,000 reimbursement, through Maven*

*Benefits available to US employees only. Canada healthcare coverage differs.

Salary

• $160,000-$220,000/year