Distributed Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Distributed Systems Engineer with experience in NFTs and Web3, to join Monax Labs. You will work with our CTO and Platform Team, and be integral to delivering our NFT Platform, Aspen, as we go to market.

Monax Labs is a web3 infrastructure studio. Our mission is to make NFT transactions safe, secure, and legal.

We are building Aspen, an NFT minting and transactional platform that helps users manage and grow their NFT portfolios and businesses. Aspen serves Creators, Collectors, Brands, Institutions, and Enterprises.

Stack Overview

Your core skills matter more than specific knowledge. Currently we use: Typescript (front end and API), Rust, Solidity, OpenZeppelin, Postgres, React, Kubernetes, Pulumi).

What you will be doing:

• Design and implementation of parallel blockchain data indexing services
• Providing technical leadership of blockchain data services
• Collaborate with SRE’s to ensure our infrastructure is reliable and scalable.
• Asking difficult questions to customers and product on roadmap/requested features
• Continuous appraisal, review and optimisation of our systems and architecture

Requirements

Essential skills:

• 5+ years experience building high throughput, highly parallel backend systems
• Previous experience working with blockchain technologies and NFTs
• Understanding of decentralized technologies
• Understanding of cost management of services
• Excellent organizational skills and a keen attention to detail
• Previous experience working in a fast-moving and evolving environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

Nice to have:

• Experience with a venture-funded, high-growth technology fintech or Crypto startup
• Experience contributing to, debugging or analysing core Ethereum software (Geth, Tendermint etc)
• Experience with NFT’s specifically
• Experience with Go
• Experience contributing to established OSS projects
• Experience with video streaming technologies (HLS/DASH)
• Experience building transcoding/encoding pipeline

We are very keen to see candidates from a range of backgrounds and experiences. You may not fit exactly every requirement we have. What’s more important is that you have the demonstrable skills and experience we need.

It is important that you are able to engage, and on occasion back yourself in honest and respectful discussions with colleagues. You are able to change your mind about something after consideration.

Benefits

What can we offer you?

• High level of autonomy, freedom and self direction
• Marketable experience in the blockchain and legal tech spaces
• Remote working to fit the way you live your life. Currently Monax Labs is fully remote
• We will expect some worldwide business travel on occasion
• Join a fast moving company as we scale up
• The chance to contribute to projects at the cutting edge of blockchain technologies
• Friendly, positive and empathetic culture
• Token Allocation and equity

About Monax

Monax Labs’ mission is to make NFT transactions safe, secure, and legal.

To build successfully in Web 3 you need a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We want applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, colour, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Salary dependent on experience - £80,000 - £110,000 GBP

UK candidates should have the right to work in the UK, sponsorship is unavailable..

We are a remote team and although we hire globally, there is a preference for this role to be located in the UK, US or Europe.