Senior Engineer, Developer Relations

About Pagoda

Pagoda is shepherding a future where NEAR becomes the blockchain operating system. We believe that re-inventing how software is made and distributed is our greatest opportunity to open economic access to those who are not fully integrated into the global economy. Our products empower people to find opportunity, invent new experiences, and collaborate. Let's build an Open Web world. A world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Pagoda is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.

What You’ll Get For Joining:

• Flexible Annual Leave / PTO with an encouraged 20 day per year minimum
• Paid Holiday Week: the last week of the year
• Paid Wellness Week: the first week of July
• $2,000 Yearly Continued Education Reimbursement
• $2,000 Home Office Setup Reimbursement
• Co-working Space Reimbursement
• Company Retreats (2022 was in Lisbon!) & Team Offsites
• Mental Health Support and access to licensed therapists through Spill, 100% paid by Pagoda 

**Temporary short term contractors do not receive the above benefits

About The Role:

Are you passionate about creating open-source software and being a part of a global community of like-minded developers who collaborate, learn from each other, and push the boundaries of innovation? Is the developer experience something you care deeply about and have strong opinions on what makes the best experience possible for software engineers? Does the spirit of decentralization burn inside you?  If so, this role might be for you… 

We are looking for someone to join our Developer Relations team who wants to help shape the future of the open web as we build out a fully decentralized Blockchain Operating System. As a DevRel Engineer, you’ll work closely with multiple engineering teams, project managers, and our developer community to help ensure we create the best developer experience possible. 

We are revolutionizing the way developers collaborate and build decentralized web applications, so having strong JS/TS knowledge and experience building full-stack web applications with modern libraries such as React & Next.js is a must. You’ll be actively using our stack to build example apps, smart contracts, as well as testing new features while providing feedback to our product and engineering teams. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Writing documentation, including guides, tutorials, and reference docs.
• Actively engaging with the community, recognizing pain-points and building new examples, dev tooling, and infrastructure to ensure they succeed.
• Working closely with our dev community, supporting developers and entrepreneurs who want to build on our platform, helping them to solve their problems or get onboard.
• Collaborating with the open source community by engaging with external contributors on our codebase, creating and participating in events, and facilitating information exchange between our community and other open source communities
• Iterating with the community to improve our documentation, making it more clear and accurate.
• Some days the position will require you to help our developer community with their code, while other days it will involve creating new applications and tooling from scratch.
• Revolutionizing the way we build, share, and utilize technology. 
• Contributing to the creation of a more equitable and resilient digital landscape.
• Helping us harness the transformative potential of open source and decentralization, and redefine the way people interact with the digital world

What We're Looking For:

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to explain complex topics in simple terms, being able to bridge the gap between core blockchain engineers and web developers.
• Experience and genuine interest in building and documenting developer-facing tools.
• Ability to learn new technologies, languages, APIs, and SDKs quickly.
• A clear passion for both creating software and engaging with live communities.
• A love of working with other developers, with passion to teach people and patience to mentor newcomers.
• Demonstrated experience writing well-structured, clean, maintainable code.
• Remote-friendly working skills.
• Availability to travel abroad to participate in conferences and our annual team offsite.
• Demonstrated experience building production-level applications in rapid iteration, high-quality environments.
• Demonstrated experience building web applications using JavaScript & TypeScript.
• Previously worked with end-users to improve their experience and success on a platform - th