Platform Developer

The Experience

Decentraland is the world’s first fully decentralized, Ethereum blockchain-based virtual social world, built, governed and owned by its users. It’s a truly unique ecosystem with its own decentralized autonomous organization, currency, marketplace and system of property – and it’s growing fast! New creations are added daily by creators who use both open source and proprietary developer tools to make games, puzzles, scenes, artworks – whatever their imaginations allow. Via their personal avatars, users attend live music events, conferences, exhibitions, dance parties and other experiences every day of the year. What began as a proof-of-concept for assigning ownership of digital real estate to users of a blockchain is now an immersive, ever-expanding and richly detailed metaverse, where the world is what you make it.

Check it out at: [http://play.decentraland.org/>

The Challenge

As Decentraland contributors, we are actively seeking for an experienced full-stack engineer with strong backend capabilities to join our remote-friendly team creating the tools to build the metaverse. You will be in charge of developing Web applications and services along with the required infrastructure. Our ideal candidate has a proactive personality with a strong sense of ownership and initiative.

The ideal candidate should feel comfortable and excited about:

• Developing new features, iterating fast, and creating innovative solutions to complex problems

• Dealing with existing code and products to provide support and make them more efficient, scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable

• Interacting with other teams and stakeholders to understand the short, medium and long-term platform goals and bring them to life

• Identifying problems and bottlenecks and creating innovative solutions for them

These are the technologies that the Platform team uses on a daily basis:

• TypeScript (both server & browser)

• Node.js for servers

• React, Redux

• Open API

• AWS for infrastructure hosting

• GitHub Actions & Workflows for continuous deployment

• Gitlab and Pulumi for the infrastructure provisioning

• Metabase, Prometheus, and Grafana for observability

• CloudWatch for CDN, hosting, security, analytics

Required Skills

• Experienced building REST and WebSocket APIs in scalable backend services
• Experience working with React and extensive knowledge in but not limited to TypeScript/JavaScript
• Experience with Service-to-Service communication (e.g. messing queues, NATs, message brokers, etc) and Security protection measurements
• Ability to understand existing products, refactor and scale them
• Experience building, publishing, and maintaining software in production environments
• Sharing our core values: create with passion, care about the future, done is better than perfect, own it, enjoy the ride

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with blockchain-based technologies
• Experience with decentralized technology
• Experience contributing to Open Source projects
• Experience managing the infra provision
• Experience working on a distributed team spread across several time zones
• Experience with WebRTC

What we offer

• Fully remote team with flexible working hours.
• 29 annual PTOs
• Long term incentive of MANA tokens, vested in a 4 years period.
• Additional tokens linked to annual performance review.
• Stipend policy to cover work-related expenses
• Brand new equipment for remote work, including laptop, screen and chair.
• Parental leave
• Language lessons