Senior Backend Engineer

Kiosk is a new Farcaster client where social meets onchain. We want creators to be able to build a community from 0-to-1 all within the app. When onchain social meets onchain commerce, it should be easy to share a media-rich idea with your social graph, make it mintable as an NFT, gather like-minded collectors and collaborators in a channel, establish custom channel economics like tipping and distribution, and chat with your community – all without leaving the app.

We are a small, passionate team based in New York City, with a breadth of experience that has been building in this space for years. We’ve raised $21M in funding led by a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures, Electric Capital and Variant Fund.

You are

An experienced backend engineer with a proven track record of shipping products and navigating ambiguity. You have experience building infrastructure to ingest, store, and analyze large volumes of data. You have a passion for engineering practices and consistently improve your craft with like-minded teammates. You are able to work in-person at our office in New York City on a hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and execute on our product roadmap


• Architect and build data infrastructure to connect the Farcaster world to the blockchain world


• Discover and evaluate web3 technologies and know when to build using 3rd party APIs or in-house solutions


• Build products on top of our GraphQL API alongside frontend engineers


• Architect backend services that are well-monitored and well-tested


• Improve infrastructure and monitoring consistently

Requirements

• 4+ years writing production software (bonus points for web3 experience)


• Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale


• Are a self-starter in proposing and carrying out technical solutions to ambiguous business problems


• Have a passion for continuously improving dev-ops for yourself and fellow engineers


• Experience with Typescript, Node, AWS

Nice to have

• History of working closely with product and users


• Meaningful open source contributions or public code for us to appreciate


• Experience with monitoring tools (Posthog, NewRelic, ElasticSearch, etc)


• Web3 experience

Salary Range

• $200,000 - $250,000 (based on experience)

Kiosk's Benefits

• Competitive stock option grant


• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 80% of premiums paid by the company


• Up to $3,000 laptop reimbursement


• Up to $500 work-from-home/remote office setup reimbursement


• Up to $150/month home internet and cell phone reimbursement


• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, with premiums paid by the company


• $50,000 life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, with premiums paid by the company


• Access to 401(k) plan, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (depending on medical insurance plan selection), and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account


• Flexible time off policy


• Three months’ paid baby bonding leave


• Hybrid in-person office work schedule in NYC


• Team offsites for periodic in-person collaborative strategy and work sessions


• A passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3