Staff Backend Engineer, Product New

zora.co; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a staff back-end engineer to join their core product engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in API development, leadership skills, and a desire to work in a dynamic, international environment where they can impact millions of users. This role includes responsibilities like driving engineering excellence and mentoring junior engineers, making it a critical position within the organization.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible time-off policy

New Macbook Pro for full-time employees

Equity options

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience, ideally with 2+ years as a tech lead.
• Strong technical background in API development at scale.
• Proven experience working collaboratively with product, design, and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering excellence in the product, emphasizing maintainability and performance.
• Lead larger-scale projects to build new product features.
• Build and maintain APIs for product and external partners.

Skills

API Development

Technical Leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration

Communication

Prioritization

Tools

Python

GraphQL

MongoDB

Job description

Zora is a new kind of on-chain social network where you can express yourself freely, connect with others, and discover the value of your imagination. We believe that by using crypto, we can enable a more equitable system for creators, fundamentally rediscovering the power of the internet.

We’re working tirelessly to make Zora available to as many people as possible with a simple, fun, and rewarding consumer app. Our mission is to make creating on the internet free and valuable.

About the Role

We’re looking for a staff back-end engineer to join one of our core product engineering teams, responsible for shipping our protocol, API, and web and mobile apps. Your work will directly impact millions of users interacting with our products.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering excellence in maintainability, performance, and attention to detail, balancing pragmatism and polish
• Lead larger-scale projects to build out major new features in the product
• Build and maintain an API used by the product as well as external partners
• Act as a standard-bearer across the team through technical leadership: writing well-reasoned technical RFCs, contributing to RFC and code reviews, pair programming, mentoring other engineers, sharing knowledge through talks and demos
• Coordinate incident response for critical services, ensuring rapid recovery and systematic fixes to address root causes

What Makes You a Fit

• 8+ years of experience as an engineer, ideally 2+ as a tech lead
• Strong technical background building APIs at scale (and ideally applications as well)
• Proven track record of working effectively with cross-functional partners like product, design, and marketing
• Exceptional communication and prioritization skills
• Experience setting the hiring bar and shaping interview processes for engineering teams
• Ability to design and implement performant, durable systems that make smart tradeoffs between product needs and technical constraints
• Demonstrated success in delivering products consistently to external users

Strong Candidates May Have

• Prior experience building on top of blockchains
• Deep technical expertise in Python, GraphQL, and MongoDB
• Comfort moving across the stack when needed (TypeScript/React/Next and Solidity)
• Experience operating within high-ambiguity startup environments
• Strong product intuition and a keen eye for design

ZORA provides top quality medical, dental, and vision insurance, with a flexible time-off policy and a new Macbook Pro for full-time employees. Employees also receive equity.

Location

ZORA is international. Our headquarters are the internet and we have employees all over the world. We’re currently in Atlanta, Berlin, Lisbon, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, and Vancouver.

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