At Foundation, we’ve spent the past few years perfecting onchain tools and
infrastructure to connect creators with millions of collectors around the
globe. We’ve always been committed to getting creators paid for their
creativity, and we built a world-class marketplace that puts the power
directly into creators’ hands to do exactly that.
Now, we're exploring a new frontier—web3 social. We believe that the internet
should be decentralized, fun, and a place to make meaningful connections (and
of course, money).
Introducing Rodeo—where creators build rich networks of collectors, and
everyone has the tools to monetize their influence. From smart contracts to
our community-centric design, we’re all about making your creativity count,
and having fun while doing it. This ain’t our first rodeo, so saddle up and
join us if you’re up for the ride.
The Team
As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, you’ll join the Engineering team at
an incredibly important inflection point for Foundation. We’re building a new
social network. As a Lead Engineer, you’ll be partnering with a dynamic, cross
functional team to introduce and scale Rodeo to the world. We’re looking for a
true leader, not someone who wants to shy away from working outside the code
and being a user centric builder. In partnership with our fellow engineers,
your work will act as the glue between our application and infrastructure
layers. You will develop scalable, reliable, and fast server infrastructure
that powers delightful, Web3 product experiences.
The Role:
Ship features: You’ll work with product managers, infrastructure engineers,
and frontend engineers to build infrastructure that unlocks new features.
Nurture code: You’ll contribute high quality and maintainable code as you
build features, and iteratively prune and simplify our code base as it
evolves.
Build and scale server infrastructure: you’ll build, maintain, and scale
server infrastructure that empowers frontend engineers to build and iterate on
features quickly and safely.
Optimize production systems: You’ll help measure and optimize performance,
reliability, and security KPIs for server and database infrastructure. You’ll
participate in on-call rotations to ensure timely response to outages and
vulnerabilities disclosures across production infrastructure.
Who You Are:
Technology: You have strong proficiency in at least one part of the stack and
are fluent in multiple others. You understand how various parts of the stack
interact with each other. You ship well tested, well structured, and
maintainable code to our code base with no guidance.
Systems: You own one or more aspects of a production system and are
responsible for its KPIs and SLAs. You include error reporting, logging,
monitoring, and alerting as part of feature development. You coordinate small
to medium production releases without compromising the security, reliability,
and performance of our systems.
People: You proactively support other engineers in their work. You help others
improve their tech, systems, or process proficiency through presentations,
office hours, or informal mentorship.
Process: You’re an active participant in team processes and help improve those
process with actionable feedback. You own or are in a rotation to drive on one
or more of these processes.
Influence: You are responsible for medium to large features and ship those
features on time and according to spec with no guidance. You can break
features down into small to medium units of work for other engineers to work
on. You clearly and proactively communicate progress, blockers, and decisions
with engineers, product managers, and designers on your feature team. You are
relied on to drive impact for one or more systems on your feature team.
Skills:
5-8 years of experience building services on top of RDBMS like Postgres
5-8 years of experience building server infrastructure for consumer
applications
Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS
Experience building GraphQL server endpoints
Experience with the Python stack
Experience with infra-as-code tooling like Terraform
Preferred experience with NoSQL databases like ElasticSearch
Preferred experience interacting with the web3 stack
Benefits and Support
• A culture that values inclusivity
• Flexible paid time off
• Annual team offsite
• All of the tech you need to be successful
• A home office stipend
• Robust medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents,
including a zero cost option (for countries that provide government-sponsored
health insurance, we offer a monthly stipend towards private health insurance)
• 6 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents, as well as 6 weeks of paid
leave for birth giving parents
• Access to Talkspace confidential online therapy and One Medical on-demand
primary care
• Get paid in crypto or fiat
• Employer sponsored 401K
Our Values
Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, and
welcome people from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures,
perspectives, experiences, and skill sets. As part of our commitment to
equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process, and
continue to promote an inclusive work environment.
We believe that a diverse team composed of individuals with different
perspectives, lived experiences, and identities is essential to achieving our
mission and upending old models of selling and sharing art. We do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin,
sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability,
gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected
status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are accommodated in
the job application and interview process, and in the performance of essential
job functions.
Salary Range
$165,000 - $190,000 USD
