We're Magic – the first to simplify wallets onchain.
Magic has seen incredible traction since its founding in 2018, with year-over-year growth exceeding 300%. To date, we’ve provided 190K+ developers with tooling to create over 35 million wallets. Our customer base includes WalletConnect, Polymarket, Helium, Immutable, Mattel, Animoca Brands, Xsolla, and Magic Eden. We’ve also raised over $80M from notable investors such as Paypal Ventures, Tiger Global, Northzone, Placeholder, Cherubic, Lightspeed Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and Balaji Srinivasan.
We offer tooling to developers so the complexities of blockchain interactions are abstracted away, enabling every internet user to engage with onchain experiences. Our team is full of innovative yet pragmatic builders passionate about this mission. Joining Magic means partnering with the best minds to accomplish our shared goal. In turn, we provide all the support necessary to perform at your highest, with a collaborative culture, an opportunity for outsized impact, and best-in-class benefits.
If our mission resonates with you, let’s chat!
The Role
As a Software Engineer at Magic, you will play a pivotal role in building out the future of onboarding users to web3 applications. You will be building new services from the ground up, launching core features for our customers (end-users and developers alike), as well as finding ways to scale and improve our existing systems. You will act as a key player on the Magic engineering team to help build and ship features that support authentication and wallet service flows that will onboard the next billion users to web3.
Experience in building products in the web3 space is required for this position. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of blockchain technologies, smart contracts, wallets and dApps. To flourish in this role, we expect that you are active both personally and professionally in web3, using dApps, reading news, and building in the space.
This role reports directly to our VP of Engineering. This position is fully remote, and we'd love to see applicants across the US and Canada, with a slight preference for hybrid NYC talent. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship (ex., H-1B transfer) of employment visas at this time, and applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada.
You will:
- Our Engineering team creates and supports stable, scalable blockchain, key management, platform and data services to support Magic experiences. This includes our patented technology DKMS along with future innovations in KMS, Blockchain, and NFT minting services.
- Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across the company to bring new features and products to Magic users.
- Build software that impacts every Magic user, whether they’re an end-user, developer, or partner. Key projects include Blockchain, our patented Delegated Key Management System (DKMS) and future innovations, NFT minting, and data pipelines.
- Collaborate with backend and frontend developers to deliver new features and improve existing features.
- Implement best practices and create and update documentation to help improve your peers' development experience.
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
- Help debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
You have:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
- A strong technical background, with 4+ years of experience in backend and API development.
- Experience working with MySQL and Python in production.
- Excitement about building the future of web3 and democratizing access to a user-centered web. Familiarity with the modular blockchain stack i.e cross chain protocols (LayerZero, Hyperlane, etc.), intents, account abstraction.
- A collaborative and motivated mindset with a drive to build in a fast-paced startup environment.
- A strong sense of ownership and anything can be done attitude.
- The ability to listen well and collaborate with other team members to make the team more efficient.
- Experience working with secure enclaves i.e AWS Nitrosis a plu!
Why you'll love working with us:
- Remote-first culture with flexible working hours
- Competitive salary with stock options
- 99% company-paid medical*, dental and vision insurance; 100% company-paid life and disability insurance
- 401(k) plan* (US) or pension plan (CAN)
- $3,600 annual reimbursement for remote work, wellness and professional development
- Flexible time off
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Family planning and reproductive health benefits, including up to $5,000 reimbursement, through Maven*
*Benefits available to US employees only. Canada healthcare coverage differs.
Salary
- $160,000-$220,000/year
At Magic, we believe building a team full of diverse perspectives and experiences is vital to success. Therefore, we strongly encourage anyone historically underrepresented in tech to apply for this role. Magic does not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, citizenship status, age, or physical ability. Empathy, authenticity, and inclusivity are at the core of all we do.
US Candidates: Magic Labs, Inc. participates in E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new US hires.
Top Skills
What We Do
Magic is an SDK that enables companies to create instant web3 wallets with a web2 login (email, social) to optimize user conversion on their app. Our solution abstracts away the complexities of wallets and removes the need for seed phrases, browser extensions, or downloads.
With enterprise-grade security and reliability, Magic gives companies peace of mind as their apps scale, all with just a few lines of code.
At Magic, our mission is to onboard a billion users to web3 by helping companies break down barriers to adoption.
