
Decentraland
Software Engineer
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
The Tech Stack – These are the technologies that the Core Team uses on a daily basis:
TypeScript (both server & browser)
Nodejs for servers
React, Redux
Open API
AWS for infrastructure hosting
GitHub Actions & Workflows and GitLab for continuous deployment
Pulumi for the infrastructure provisioning
Metabase, Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch for observability
CloudFlare for CDN, hosting, security and analytics
PostgreSQL, REDIS
The Requirements
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
Experience working with performance, security and DBs
Sharing our core values: create with passion, care about the future, done is better than perfect, own it, enjoy the ride
The Nice-to-Haves
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 real time communications
What we Offer:
A fully remote and flexible working environment.
A collaborative and fast-paced team culture.
The opportunity to work in a cutting-edge industry and make a direct impact on our company’s growth.
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 remote work & wellness related expenses
Brand new equipment for remote work, including laptop, screen and chair.
Parental leave
Language lessons
About Decentraland Foundation
The Decentraland Foundation is a steward of the Decentraland platform, dedicated to ensuring its long-term growth, security, and sustainability. It contributes to core development, platform infrastructure, and ecosystem health. Its responsibilities include managing Decentraland’s brand and events, safeguarding the community from misinformation and scams, maintaining smart contract security, contributing to the platform’s codebase, and proposing critical updates in coordination with the DAO. As a neutral actor in service of the ecosystem, the Foundation works to foster innovation and empower creators, developers, and communities within Decentraland.
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