We're looking for experienced engineers to join our backend team. The team builds the infrastructure and APIs the rest of the first-party product and third-party development community runs on. You'll work with our lead architect on the data model and API contracts, and frontend team builds on what you ship.
Responsibilities
- Social graph and identity. Build the graph: users, profiles, friends and follows, guilds, roles, permissions and moderation. It has to stay correct under concurrency and abuse, and fast as the graph grows.
- Financial and cosmetic economy. Take point on implementing currencies, balances, drops, crafting, cosmetics and entitlements, including reconciliation with on-chain assets and commerce. Every transaction must be idempotent, auditable and reversible.
- Social product. Chat, timelines, feeds and notifications, built as reusable backend capabilities rather than one-off features. rather than one-off features.
- API model. Implement contract-first, versioned APIs, and help evolve the contracts with the architect so frontends, mobile and third-party clients can build on them.
- Raise the bar. Bring hard-won experience to design reviews, testing and code review, and mentor others on the team.
What we're looking for
- A portfolio of serious backend work you can walk us through in depth
- Years of experience building and running production systems. You've been the person others go to when correctness or scale gets hard.
- You've built something where correctness around value mattered: payments, ledgers, marketplaces, virtual economies, entitlements
- You've built social systems: graphs, permissions, feeds, chat, moderation
- Strong relational data modeling: schema design, indexing, query design, migrations on live data
- You write clearly. Specs and design docs are part of the job.
Good to have
- In-game economies or live-ops: drop tables, sinks and faucets, exploit response
- Real-time systems (WebSockets, SSE)
- Web3 identity and assets: wallet signatures, on-chain indexing
- Founding-engineer or 0-1 experience
- Systems programming (C/C++/Rust/Zig)
Us
- Independent and well-capitalized
- Engaged alpha user community
- High-autonomy teams inside a growing org
- Ambitious Xanadu/Semantic Web inspired vision
Benefits
- Seed stage equity
- Learning/health/culture stipends, PTO, health insurance
- Creative studio environment
All roles in-office (Irvine, California).