Mighty Block is one of the partners of Forte, a platform to enable game publishers to easily integrate blockchain technologies into their games. We believe blockchain will enable new economic and creative opportunities for gamers around the world and have assembled a team of proven veterans from across the industry (Kabam, Unity, GarageGames, ngmoco, Twitch, Disney), as well as a $100M developer fund & $725M funding, to help make it happen. That’s where you come into play.
We are seeking talented server developers to join our growing team in Latam. As a backend developer at Mighty Block, you will be working in close collaboration with web and blockchain development teams to create scalable cloud solutions with ledger technologies and web products. Our dApps division is focused on building secure decentralized mobile & web products. We need driven individuals who are ready to take on difficult challenges in frontier technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high quality backend services that interact with blockchain technologies.
- Collaborate with internal and external product and design teams to implement scalable and secure backend services.
- Work with other backend engineers to solve difficult problems across multiple services and products.
- Aid in the design, architecture, and implementation of complex REST, RPC, and GraphQL APIs for highly intuitive web services.
- Work with technical leaders to design high traffic web and mobile applications from the ground up, through all aspects of the project lifecycle.
- Collaborate with colleagues to maintain high code quality through code reviews, technical feedback cycles, unit testing and architectural audits.
Requirements:
- Ambition, eagerness to learn, a positive attitude, and the ability to work within a team environment.
Passion for making excellent products in real world conditions. - At least 4 years experience working on web-api development projects.
- Practical experience with and a strong understanding of data storage methods and building intuitive interfaces to access them (SQL, noSQL, Redis, etc.).
- Experience designing and evolving APIs for live products.
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development tools and processes relevant to one of the following languages (C, C++, Java, Go, Python, Node).
- Strong competence of version control systems and industry standard workflows (GitFlow, GitHub Flow, etc.).
- Familiarity with development environment best practices.
- At least a bachelor degree in computer science, or a related field of study.
Bonus if you also have…
- 2 or more years experience in a senior software development role.
- Experience developing or designing distributed technologies and managing distributed systems.
- Experience with known blockchain technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
- Experience with financial systems or other highly security services.
- Experience communicating with remote teams.
- Unix/Linux development environment experience.
- Shipped products using Python, Ruby, Node.js, Java or other backend technology.
Benefits
We believe in treating people right to build a great team for the journey ahead. If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us! 🙂
- An amazing culture (see our website)
- Competitive salary and meaningful long-term incentives according to this leadership role
- We use Macbooks, but we can get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done
- Fully Remote
About Mighty Block
Mighty Block is a blockchain developer company and 1 of only 3 global partners of Forte. Mighty Block was founded by serial entrepreneurs with experience in the Software, Gaming, B2B SaaS and Online Marketplaces Industries.
Mighty Block focuses on recruiting talent from Latin America. Culture and good atmosphere are what define the company.
About Forte
Headquartered in San Francisco, Forte is developing blockchain technology platforms and products built for the games industry. By tackling hard technology problems behind the scenes, Forte is forging a more collaborative future between game developers, players and creators. The founding team of Forte is composed of experts in game platform development, game design and publishing from leading companies such as Kabam, GarageGames, Unity, Linden Lab, and Gen.G Esports.
