Founding Backend Engineer

A stealth-mode venture at the intersection of entertainment, media, and audience-led investment is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to take ownership of its platform’s core systems. This is a unique opportunity to join an early-stage team building a highly scalable product in a space combining interactive content, audience investment, and Web3 infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is a senior engineer ready to shape backend architecture, mentor others, and help scale both systems and team as the product moves toward mass adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve core backend systems
• Contribute as a hands-on individual contributor
• Establish engineering processes and best practices
• Collaborate closely with product and design
• Conduct code reviews and uphold engineering quality
• Guide and mentor junior developers
• Help define and track product KPIs
• Support experimentation and A/B testing
• Take ownership of deployment, monitoring, and scaling
• Influence hiring as the engineering team grows

Tech Environment

The stack includes Java, Elixir, JavaScript, and containerized environments with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and modern CI/CD workflows.

Ideal Profile

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Strong experience across distributed systems and API design
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment at scale
• Previous leadership or mentoring experience (preferred)
• Experience with Web3, blockchain, or tokenized platforms (bonus)
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment

What’s on Offer

• Salary: $150,000–$200,000
• Equity options
• Fully remote and flexible work culture
• Opportunity to influence product and tech direction from day one