Staff Engineer

Highlight exists to power the future of digitally native art and culture.

We create the best and most innovative tools for digital artists, and are building a destination marketplace for creators and collectors globally to create, discover, buy and sell unique digital assets.

We’re currently hiring a seasoned staff-level engineer.

The ideal candidate is excited to be on the early engineering team of a well-funded startup and the responsibility and autonomy of building with other experienced developers.

You love getting your hands dirty, learning cutting-edge new technologies, and the excitement that comes with building a new platform from the ground up. You have strong opinions about how to do that yet work collaboratively and are always open to new ideas.

If you’re inspired by building tools for artists, creators, community builders, brands, and developers that will push the boundaries of onchain creativity, please send us an email with a link to your GitHub, LinkedIn and/or personal website.

Responsibilities

• Building well-architected microservice web applications on AWS. We use React, GraphQL, Node, and DynamoDB on AWS as our core technologies
• Contributing to smart contract architecture and development that enables core features of our product
• Participating in code reviews and the interview process

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or 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 a major plus
• Strong database schema design skills