Thirdwave is hiring a Software Engineer

We are currently seeking a driven and enthusiastic Backend Engineer to join the Thirdwave team. Our ideal candidate is someone who possesses a solid understanding of blockchain protocols and nodes, or is eager to learn and delve into the intricacies of these emerging technologies. As a Backend Engineer, you will be part of a team that is passionate about the intersection of gaming and blockchain, and committed to shaping the industry's future.

What you’ll achieve

As a Backend Engineer, your immediate focus will be to design, develop, test and maintain highly scalable and reliable back-end systems that power our platform's features and functionalities. You’ll wear many hats and have a lot of autonomy. You will be a part of shaping and influencing the future of the team, product, and the company.

You Will Also

• Continuously improve the performance and efficiency of the platform by optimizing its architecture and infrastructure
• Debug production issues across multiple services and all levels of our infrastructure stack
• Identify data needs for business and product teams, understand their specific requirements for metrics and analysis, and build efficient and scalable data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions across the company
• Participate in code reviews, and provide constructive feedback to other developers to ensure that best practices are followed
• Implement processes and practices to support the scaling of the development team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and front-end developers, to ensure seamless integration of the platform's back-end with its front-end
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation
• Ensure code quality and maintainability by writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.

About You

You are passionate about developing scalable and reliable back-end systems. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and are able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. You have a strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns, and can develop solutions that meet the platform's requirements. You are skilled at problem-solving and are able to identify and resolve back-end issues and bugs quickly. You have a strong sense of ownership and take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Minimum Qualifications

• A degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, math, or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years of professional experience in software development with a focus on back-end development
• Web and mobile development skills in React, Relay, Apollo
• Experience with UI frameworks like React combined with GraphQL (Relay or Apollo).
• Compiled languages: C, Java, Rust, or Go (Added Java)
• Interpreted languages: Python, Ruby, or Typescript
• Experience with RDMS and Columnar databases. OLAP, OLTP, Data processing tools like Spark
• ML tools like Tensor Flow, PyTorch a plus

What We Offer

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
• Additional benefits to help care for your family such as flexible parental leave and fertility & adoption assistance
• Unlimited PTO, including two recharge weeks (two company-wide weeks off, 13 paid holidays AND a $1000 - vacation stipend once a year to spend on travel, etc.
• Awesome Perks including a $200 monthly Lifestyle Stipend to support not just your 'health & fitness' but your general wellbeing, a $1000 home office budget to get you set up at home, and a $125 monthly phone & internet stipend