Responsibilities
- Build and enhance MetaMask's backend data indexing services to enable broad and fast data coverage across blockchain network data (account balances, activity and token price)
- Design and implement performant solutions to be used in MetaMask Clients including Extension, Mobile, and Web
- Collaborate with backend API engineers to ensure MetaMask client requirements are met.
- Collaborate with product managers, DevSecOps, SRE, and other engineers to deliver high-quality features
- Ensure performance and stability of existing and new services
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain high code quality standards
- Participate in on-call rotations to support our production services
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years working with backend technologies on production applications
- Strong knowledge of Golang, SQL, data warehousing, messaging systems (Nats, Kafka)
- Familiarity with blockchain fundamentals, client implementations of EVM and EVM equivalent networks, and indexing blockchain data.
- Experience building highly performant APIs and serving data at scale
- Good knowledge of implementing observability metrics (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience in Production grade cloud deployment and AWS tooling
- Experience working in an agile development team
- Experience developing applications with clean code practices, testing, and adherence to coding standards
- Experience with non-EVM blockchains
- In-depth knowledge of Ethereum execution clients and smart contract standards
- Interest in blockchain technologies and Web3 infrastructure
- Basic understanding of cryptography principles
- Experience working in distributed teams
- Previous experience working in Web3
- Familiarity with the Web3 ecosystem
- Good verbal and written communication in English
- Teamwork, flexibility, and organization
- Eagerness to learn and grow your technical skills
- Self-motivated, and autonomous in your execution of tasks
- Ability to balance technical quality with business needs and user experience
About the company
MetaMask aims to create a thriving engineering organization that supports the well-being of our engineers while empowering them to do work they are proud of and enjoy. We strive for an environment that gives our people high trust and autonomy, while also facilitating collaboration, communication and camaraderie among teams and teammates. We aspire to build a diverse engineering team, inclusive to people from all backgrounds and demographics. It is also of great importance to us that working at MetaMask is an experience that catalyzes career growth and learning.
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