Front End Engineer, Data Platform

About The Role

The Data Platform team at Pagoda is responsible for the data access infrastructure of NEAR Protocol. We focus on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to query and access blockchain data that power decentralized applications, such as the NEAR Blockchain Operating System (BOS).

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing user interfaces and services for software engineers around the world to build decentralized applications on NEAR Protocol;
• Collaboration with a fully distributed team around the world;
• Writing the code, fixing bugs, and participating in design discussions;
• Following the minimal processes, like technical roadmaps, OKRs, milestones, regular team meetings;
• Develop components and applications in public clouds like GCP and AWS;
• Participating in on-call rotations;
• Performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements.

What We're Looking For

• Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies.
• Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design while not knowing all the details.
• Experience building highly-interactive user interfaces using React;
• Experience building easy to use and scalable APIs, including REST and GraphQL;
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code in a variety of programming languages and technologies, including TypeScript, Rust, SQL, Python;
• Experience building cloud applications utilizing managed compute and data processing systems;
• Understanding data processing and storage solutions and ability to find balance between cost, performance and scalability.
• Effective communication skills to convey your ideas and discuss with team members for technical challenges
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must

We'd Love If You Have

• Open source contributions and previous or continued involvement in open source communities;
• Experience setting up continuous integration pipelines, observability tools and metrics;
• Familiarity with Ethereum development and related technologies (web3.js, ethers.js, etc)
• Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies;
• Experience working at a startup.

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like

Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
• Technical Interviews (3 x 60 minutes) 
• Meet with the Hiring Manager (60 minutes)
• Pagoda Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $148,750 - $195,000, which represents the salary range applicable to US locations only. This does not include bonus, incentives, or benefits.

The actual base pay within the range is dependent upon many factors, including: leveling, relevant skills, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, there are other geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your preferred location during the hiring process.