Senior Full Stack Engineer, Open Source Details

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Open Source

Recruiting From Scratch - Bloomington, IN

Employment Type : Full-Time

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

About Our Client:

Our client is the world's first blockchain entertainment company. They are the creators of industry-leading experiences including CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot. They are also the original developers behind Flow, a new decentralized blockchain designed from the ground up for scalability and ease of use.

Our client’s mission is to make the world a more accessible and enjoyable place through consumer adoption of decentralized technologies.

Our client has raised over $600M from leading and notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Google Ventures (GV), Samsung, and the founders of Dreamworks, Reddit, Coinbase, Zynga, and AngelList, among others. Our client's current studio partners include the NBA and NBPA, the NFL-PA, Ubisoft, Warner Music, Turner, Dr. Seuss, Genies, and the UFC, as well as 100+ others.

About this Role:

They’re searching for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to lead open-source development across the Flow developer suite — a collection of software libraries, APIs, and developer tools used by thousands of Flow developers on a daily basis.

The ideal candidate not only has a passion for technical design but is also excited about fostering a diverse open-source community and collaborating to make blockchain development more accessible to developers of any background.

About the Flow Developer Experience team:

The Flow Developer Experience team was born in mid 2020, shortly before the launch of the Flow blockchain network. Our client's goal has always been to make blockchain development simple and accessible. Since the start, they’ve worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Flow’s developer community to identify pain points and design solutions that have taken the form of client libraries, IDE integrations, and cross-platform authentication protocols.

Their work is language agnostic and requires them to cross all layers of a developer’s software stack. Regardless of what they’re building, they always strive to meet developers where they are whether that place is a Swift iOS codebase or a data processing pipeline written in Go.

Lastly, they’re not here to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes the best tool is the one you already know. By leveraging well-known tools and frameworks, they aim to prove that any developer can build a blockchain application using the skills they already have.

What you’ll accomplish with their team:

• Continuously improve the UI layer of their developer tools. You’ll strive to build ergonomic tools and discover the right UX to make Flow development more efficient and intuitive.
• Drive innovation in their space; Flow is a new platform and they are actively exploring new ways to build blockchain applications.
• Collaborate with community members and facilitate external contributions to Flow’s repositories.
• Lead the engineering team throughout the process of gathering developer feedback, designing solutions, shipping new software and maintaining live projects.
• Become a reliable mentor for other engineers and help them build a culture where curious engineers thrive.

• You have expert knowledge in building JavaScript applications with React, TypeScript and Next .
• You have experience optimizing the performance of web applications.
• In addition to your existing experience, you are also excited to learn new technologies and step outside of your comfort zone.
• You are able to work with engineers, designers, product managers and other leaders to turn your product and technical vision into executable tasks.
• You are excited about owning the entire lifecycle of our developer tools, from defining a roadmap and proposing designs to implementing a final product.
• You are a great communicator and can collaborate effectively, not only within the Flow organization but also across our open-source communities.