Backend Engineer

General Information

At Inspect, our software processes O(petabytes) of on- and off-chain data to generate social insights that help users to navigate Web3 and make better decisions. The task of our backend engineers is to scale this to hundreds of thousands of users while maintaining a nimble foundation for continued product development.

Backend engineers will work alongside an experienced team of crypto-enthusiast engineers and leaders from companies like Meta and Amazon to build solutions that solve real problems our users are facing, allow us to iterate quickly and test new ideas rapidly, and scale to the immense amount of data and usage we're experiencing.

  • Position: Full-time

  • Location: Remote

  • Timezone: Within 3 hours of PST.

Responsibilities

  • Build highly scalable, available, and performant systems that back our product to ...

    • Process hundreds of queries per second with tens of thousands of downstream operations

    • Run machine learning models at scale and with very low latency

    • Allow us to quickly iterate as we develop new features and learn from our users what's working best

  • Improve the maintainability of new and existing solutions to limit operational overhead

  • Write readable, tested code that is as simple as possible to accomplish the job (but no simpler)

  • Inform product development based on unique insights from building our systems about what's working and what is possible

  • Help team members by providing quality feedback, reviewing code and designs, and working together to deliver solutions

Requirements

Minimum:

  • Fluent in English

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience at a tech company or startup, or demonstrate a similar skill level

The following will help you stand out:

  • Experience operating as a team lead for a project with more than 3 engineers

  • Experience working alongside Applied ML Engineers and publishing ML models to production

  • Significant experience using TypeScript, NodeJS, and Redis

  • Significant experience with AWS services

  • Significant experience with Rust and creating high-performance microservices

  • Experience with 0 to 1 product development

  • A working knowledge of NFTs, DeFi, and Web3

How to apply

Please email hiring@optick.xyz with a copy of your updated resume and any additional information that may help us make a decision. We will aim to get back to you within 1-week with next steps.

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