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Staff Engineer - Distributed Systems

Highlight

Job Description

Highlight is seeking a seasoned Staff Engineer to join our early engineering team. As a well-funded startup, we are building innovative tools for digital artists and creators, and we are quickly becoming a destination marketplace for creators and collectors globally. This role offers the opportunity to work with highly experienced developers and contribute to building a new platform from the ground up.

Responsibilities

  • Build well-architected microservice web applications on AWS using React, GraphQL, Node, and DynamoDB.
  • Contribute to smart contract architecture and development to enable core features of our product.
  • Work at the cutting edge of web3 with Farcaster protocol integration, L2 expansion, scalability needs, and embedded/smart wallets.
  • Participate in code reviews and the interview process.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 6+ years of experience building full-stack consumer-facing web applications and solving complex distributed systems problems.
  • Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested, secure code in a variety of languages and frameworks.
  • Experience building microservice architectures on AWS.
  • Web3, dApp, and blockchain smart contract experience is a major plus.
  • Strong database schema design skills.

About Highlight

Highlight is an in-home product testing platform that lets you do good research fast. We streamline everything from recruit to data set, including all the logistics of getting your product to your target customers, whether they are cat-owning millennials or women over 50 in California with oily skin looking for retinol.

If you’re inspired by building tools for artists, creators, community builders, brands, and developers that will push the boundaries of onchain creativity, we encourage you to apply.

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