Stardust empowers game developers leveraging blockchain to scale to millions of players and NFTs with custodial wallets and a secure platform; providing players and developers with a frictionless experience while playing and building games.
Our mission is to help developers do what they do best, build incredible great games. We're building the future of gaming - and we don't say that lightly. We're developing backend technology to power new gamer-first economies.
We’re looking for players who think big, build bigger, and want to turn crazy ideas into reality. Are you ready to play?
ROLE
Stardust seeks a senior software engineer to join our engineering team and help build our gaming infrastructure and adtech product offerings.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be a key contributor to our ads product leveraging machine learning and building a data processing system
- Mentor junior team members on best practices to approaching large ambiguous problems
- Use and promote communicable paradigms such as SOLID to improve team and product quality
- Migrate legacy systems to a scalable maintainable state
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of industry experience building distributed and scalable backend systems
- 2+ years of Adtech experience, especially working on a demand side platform (DSP) a HUGE PLUS
- Proficient in a backend language such as Javascript / Typescript on Node.js, Python, or other relevant languages
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Proficient knowledge of Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis
- Experience with distributed systems and relational databases
- Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code
- Experience using design patterns and other engineering best practices
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Ability to add code quality tools to systems e.g. linters, static analysis, profilers, remote debuggers
- Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
BONUS POINTS
- Prior ML experience
- Passion for web3 and / or games
- High level understanding of blockchain
- Prior startup experience
Top Skills
What We Do
Stardust is a software platform that enables game developers to build in the metaverse.
The blockchain is completely changing how gaming interacts with the broader world of finance, social, and more.
Stardust provides game developers an easy graphical platform to build and manage their game. Whether you are a game developer looking to utilize blockchain technology, or just looking for a pre-built scalable data storage infrastructure for your game, the Stardust platform is the right choice for you.
