Lead Software Engineer - Back End

The Company

At Foundation, we are laying the groundwork for web3—the next generation of the internet full of limitless possibilities. In web3, your creativity is valued and your digital objects belong to you. We aim to put power directly back into the hands of those who create online. Why? We believe this is how the internet should just work. Our team is made up of individuals who share that vision. Together, we’re unlocking the full potential of an internet based on new values of ownership and decentralization.

The Role

As a Lead Software Engineer - Backend, you’ll join the Engineering team at an exciting inflection point in Foundation’s growth. In partnership with our fellow engineers, Backend Engineers act as the glue between our application and infrastructure layers. They develop scalable, reliable, and fast server infrastructure that power delightful product experiences. You'll be joining a full stack engineering team where you'll bring your expertise in modern front end languages and frameworks to continue to elevate Foundation as a premiere user experience in Web3.

Responsibilities

• 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.