Senior Blockchain Engineer - Platform

The Shrapnel team is seeking bright minds from every culture, discipline, and background to join us on a new creative endeavor. 

We’re a mission-focused team with industry roots in world-class game development, studio building, and platform creation. 

Our goal is empowering the world to share in our playful collaboration at the intersection of gaming, creation, and ownership. 

The Shrapnel team is seeking bright minds from every culture, discipline, and background to join us on a new creative endeavor. 

We’re a mission-focused team with industry roots in world-class game development, studio building, and platform creation. 

Our goal is empowering the world to share in our playful collaboration at the intersection of gaming, creation, and ownership. 

Our Blockchain Team is a critical ingredient to our success. Come join our mission to create the future of entertainment. On this team, you will build and maintain smart contracts, nodes, and other systems to serve our team and gamers. You’ll be empowered and given autonomy. Your ideas will matter.  

 

The Job  

• Build robust, scalable and secure software using Solidity, Go, and Typescript 
• Contribute to the design and creation of services and system architecture for our projects 
• Contribute and provide feedback to other team members.
• Improve our code quality through writing various automated tests and performing code reviews. 
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products. 
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution. 
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule

Who Will Be A Great Fit  

We welcome your uniqueness. Research shows that diverse teams do the best work. Our customers are all over the world, and from all walks of life. It's important that we’re not all the same, so that we can draw on our differences, what we’ve experienced, and how we think.  

• 3+ years of recent hands-on coding and software design 
• Experience with implementing various contracts in Solidity, including but not limited to ERC721 and ERC1155 Contracts
• Find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges 
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development. 
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives. 
• A strong familiarity of Web Server technologies including NGINX, Apache and J2EE. 
• A strong familiarity with Cloud providers including AWS, Azure, GCP 

Nice to Have 

• Bachelor degree or more in Computer Science or a related field  
• Knowledge in database systems and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB/MongoDB/LevelDB 
• Experience with Solidity security testing tools such as Slither and Manticore 
• Experience deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters 
• Office365 and Google Suite proficiency.  
• A mindset of continuous improvement; humble and ambitious. 
• Prior experience in a startup environment or small business. 
• Adaptable, with a good sense of humor. 
• Multi-lingual   

The Perks 

• Competitive Salary and excellent Benefits.  
• Flexible hours, with the potential of remote working.  
• Unlimited vacation days.
• Visibility and input to business strategy, including technology and creative partners.
• Autonomy and latitude within your role.  
• Seattle’s healthy living and vibrant city culture.  
• Tight knit, highly experienced, fun-loving team.  

Additional Information: 

The base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000 - $180,000 + stocks + tokens + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

 

Employment Type: Full-time, On-Site, Not open to remote candidates at this time

Seniority Level: Mid-High Level 

Industry: Video Games, Blockchain, Cloud, Services   

Employment Type: Full-time 

Job Functions: Engineering, Services 

The Fine Print 

At Shrapnel we prefer working in-office, together. We believe working in the same space can accelerate