Senior Backend Engineer

Can you craft APIs that effortlessly handle thousands of concurrent users? Do you have a knack for optimizing performance and diagnosing bottlenecks in high-stakes environments? 

If so, we want to hear from you!

Floki is at the forefront of the crypto industry, managing hyped events that can attract hundreds of thousands of users to our products simultaneously. Our backend services are the backbone of our operations, synchronizing blockchain data and serving it efficiently to our frontend applications and external partners.

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer to design, implement, and optimize our scalable backend infrastructure, ensuring seamless performance during peak demands.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Floki, you will

• Develop APIs that can handle massive concurrent user loads
• Optimize database queries and caching strategies
• Develop and maintain cron jobs
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance issues

The ideal candidate has experience with

• Microservices architecture
• NestJS + Typescript
• Queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka)
• Cronjobs
• Caching (Redis/Dragonfly)
• Relational Databases (Postgres/MySQL)
• Observability (distributed logging and tracing)
• MongoDB
• Docker & Docker Compose
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Nice to have

• Web3 general knowledge (wallets, block explorers, tokens)
• Viem or ethers.js
• Smart contract development (Solidity, Hardhat/Foundry)
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• AWS/GCP/Azure
• Ngrok, Smee or similar tool for webhook testing

What we offer

• ‍Compensation in crypto: The salary is paid in crypto (USDT on Ethereum).‍
• 100% remote team: We mostly discuss async using Discord, though we sometimes have calls to discuss features, troubleshoot problems together, or just hangout in voice channels.‍
• Team Token Allocation: We highly value sense of ownership and transparency, you run what you build, thus we compensate committed team members with a generous team token allocation.‍
• Flexible Hours: There is no strict time to start/stop your work, we do expect some overlap time with UTC+1 (morning or afternoon) so we can have efficient communication though.‍
• Growth Opportunities: We deal with scalability problems with millions of daily requests as well as sudden peak traffic, we solve blockchain challenges using top industry standards, we take security very seriously and even have a Bug Bounty program to collaborate with security researchers.‍
• Make an impact: Our products are revolutionizing the industry, we have a big and united community of vikings that help spread the word, though we also have partnerships with big projects. 

At Floki, we're creating the infrastructure for the future of decentralized finance. Your expertise in backend engineering could ensure lightning-fast, reliable services for millions of users worldwide. If you're ready to push the boundaries of what's possible in crypto backend development, we're ready for you!