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Are you an Engineering Lead who would love to be part of building and scaling the leading NFT infrastructure? NFTPort is Stripe for NFTs - One-Stop & Simple NFT Infrastructure & APIs used by 30 000+ developer teams, including industry leaders such as Protocol Labs, Nifty Gateway, etc.

NFTPort's mission is to empower developers to break up today’s data monopolies and make the Internet ownable by citizens. If you vibe with the mission and are enthusiastic about building NFT infrastructure for your fellow devs in the Web3 world, then you fit right in.

We are a team of ex-NATO, Amazon, Nvidia, etc. and funded by world-class investors such as Plural Platform, Atomico, Protocol Labs, Jaynti Kanani (Co-Founder of Polygon), Jutta Steiner (Co-Founder of Polkadot), Balaji Srinivasan (ex CTO of Coinbase), Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder of Skype, early investor of DeepMind), Taavet Hinrikus & Sten Tamkivi (Co-Founders of Wise).

Your role

Your main focus will be managing a team of software engineers in order to design, build and scale our NFT infrastructure. There's a wide variety of really hard technical challenges we need to solve - from minting 10K NFTs/sec in a distributed way to scaling our real-time and low-latency NFT infrastructure which span all the L1 top blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana, Flow and layers 2's (Polygon), as well eventually building the core functionality as a decentralized protocol. You’ll be working on the full cycle of a team - having technical background to lead the team to the right direction and make sure the team has everything to succeed, conduct goal setting and reviews, hiring, pulling up the sleeves as needed, ensuring smooth co-operation with product and other teams. And not to mention the most important - team delivery.

Team Mission

Your team’s main focus will be on designing, building and scaling our decentralized NFT infrastructure protocol which reads and writes NFT data at low-latency, high throughput and reliability across different chains. This means architecting, developing, testing and shipping an end to end NFT data indexer which ingests new blocks and constructs NFT data state, handling data pipelines with TB's of data, ensuring reliability even when a single chain goes down, etc. We are still relatively small team (but growing fast) meaning there's a wide variety of really hard technical challenges you can help the team solve - from scaling our real-time and low-latency NFT infrastructure indexer to integrating it with the overall protocol which will span all the L1 & L2 top blockchains.

By the end of your year one, your team will have shipped a core part of our NFT data indexer.

For more context, see our product: https://docs.nftport.xyz/ (recommended if you want to proceed to an interview).

Must have

A minimum of 3 years experience as a technical team lead, with 2+ years with shipping complex data, blockchain or developer infrastructure products. A history of shipping complex technical products on time and success - you deliver impact and results
Experience with building low-latency and scalable (or distributed) architectures
Back end skills with Python and JS and strong object oriented design understanding
Experience with SQL (such as PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (such as MongoDB) databases
You can exit Vim (not kidding). Working with CLI, Linux, Git and setting up your own environment
You have strong leadership skills and can marshal the resources of the team by increasing their leverage. Your output is the output of the overall team as you prioritize effectively, communicate clearly in English, work one as a team and build simple, scalable processes where needed. You are able to hire and build your own team. You help to grow a deep sense of ownership, trust, and collaborative spirit within your team
You love to get your hands deep in the technical details as you can lead the architecture, review code (+ write if necessary) and mentor your team so they have a path to grow
You are customer obsessed and you understand developer personas extremely well and able to communicate with them at ease
Have the skills needed to prototype fast, find out what is the 80-20 solution and iterate to solve the remaining 20%
Tireless problem-solver, acting autonomously, take ownership, actively proposing solutions, good communicator, being a team player, having a growth and a startup mindset
Are motivated and passionate about the startup, no-corporate-BS way of life which also means ruthless execution at speed. You believe strongly in the Web3 & decentralization ethos

Nice to have

Have worked in dev tooling/infrastructure/API/Web3 company

Designed protocols or worked with decentralized infrastructure
Previously built NFT projects
Experience with cloud such as AWS or GCP
DevOps skills such as Docker, etc.

What we offer you

Mission and work that matters: You can disrupt today's data monopolies (Facebook etc.) and make the Internet ownable by citizens
Be part of a growing Web3 community and movement where you get to meet like minded people
Be part of a startup that’s growing fast, packed with career opportunities in a new Web3 world and be surrounded by exceptionally talented colleagues
Build and scale really challenging technology while having the ability to learn about blockchain & Web3 industry
Receive generous salary and stock/tokens
Be a part of a diverse team that welcomes all races, religions, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, ages, or are unique in any other way
Receive sports and self-growth benefits with 28 calendar days of vacation
Flexible work environment, location and time where you are in charge of balancing your own freedom and responsibility
Pick your own equipment - we'll set you up with a laptop plus any software you need
Chew bubble gum, mint some NFTs and have fun :)

Vibes with you?

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