Senior Backend Engineer, Magic Eden

$185-220k

Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Magic Eden’s equity plan

MongoDB
AWS
Node.js
Postgres
Expert level
Remote in US
Magic Eden

NFT marketplace

Job no longer available

Magic Eden

NFT marketplace

101-200 employees

B2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceDigital MediaArtWeb 3.0

Job no longer available

$185-220k

Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Magic Eden’s equity plan

MongoDB
AWS
Node.js
Postgres
Expert level
Remote in US

101-200 employees

B2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceDigital MediaArtWeb 3.0

Company mission

To be a destination for discovery, self-expression, and ownership across digital cultures.

Role

Who you are

  • - You have at least 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
  • You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
  • You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Desirable

  • You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
  • Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks
  • You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
  • You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
  • You’ve worked with AWS, Web3.js, NodeJS, Postgres, MongoDB
  • You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems

What the job involves

  • Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Node.JS
  • Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices
  • Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them
  • Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
  • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

Our take

The total volume traded in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is well over $50 billion, and they have revolutionized the way that creators can monetize their work. Magic Eden supplies a platform for trading NFTs, that is distinct for its focus on gamers and the internet community. As well as functioning as a marketplace, which is the base capability of many competitors, it also employs vertical integration of NFTs within the games it hosts on its platform.

This unique focus has primed Magic Eden it for huge success - it moved from launch to Unicorn status in just 9 months and achieved ICO funding of $45 million in 2023. Although there are much larger NFT marketplaces, such as the market-controlling OpenSea, Magic Eden's incorporation of the Ethereum blockchain into its program (it initially only used the smaller Solana) indicates that it may be set to take on its older, more established competitors.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

7% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2022

$130m

SERIES B

Mar 2022

$27m

SERIES A

Total funding: $159.5m

Company benefits

  • Competitive equity options
  • Flexible PTO, 7 company holidays and 4 floating holidays
  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
  • Wellness and work from home allowance
  • Remote-first company
  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • 401k plan

Company values

  • We ship first, improve always.
  • We’re inclusive and open, the human epitome of Web3.
  • We know the stakes and accept our flaws with a champion’s mindset.
  • We embrace fear and show up for each other with empathy and care.

Founders

Jack Lu

(CEO)

Has previously worked as a Project Manager at Google, Consultant at BCG, and Software Enginer at HelloBlock.

Previously founded and was CTO of HelloBlock. They also worked as an Engineering Manager at both Uber and Facebook.

Prior to Magic Eden, worked as a Senior Product Manager at Coinbase. They were also Head Of Strategy & Business Operations at dYdX and a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.

Zhoujie Zhou

(Chief Engineer)

Former Staff Engineer at Facebook, as well as working at Uber as a Software Engineer and at Checkr as a Senior Staff Software Engineer.

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