Staff Backend Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong offer due to high salary range, significant technical challenges in a pioneering sector, and potential for career growth in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Competitive salary: $190,000–$345,000/year
- Work at the forefront of NFT technology
- Significant career growth potential
- Requires strong technical expertise
Pros
- High compensation ($190,000 to $345,000/year)
- Work on groundbreaking technology in the NFT space
- Remote work flexibility with team collaboration
Cons
- Requires extensive experience (6+ years) and specific technical skills
- High workload and demanding project timelines
- Remote collaboration might limit interpersonal interaction
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Fully Remote
Good fit
- Experienced backend engineers
- Technologists passionate about blockchain
- Professionals looking for remote work opportunities
Not recommended for
- New graduates or individuals with limited experience
- Candidates uninterested in rapidly evolving tech
- Those who prefer large company bureaucracies
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
As the world's first and largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea is pioneering a new frontier where art, games, technology and commerce converge in fascinating and unprecedented ways. Our platform empowers millions of creators, collectors and developers to easily showcase, discover, buy and sell unique digital items.
We’re a team of rigorous problem solvers, visionary futurists, proactive doers and effective communicators. As a remote-first company, we enable our team members to work from anywhere, while making time to come together as a team to collaborate and connect in person throughout the year.
We're looking for an ambitious, detail-oriented Staff Backend Engineer with an enthusiasm for building and scaling feature-rich, well-tested, and polished applications with modern technologies. This individual will spearhead core features of the OpenSea 2.0 backend.
Responsibilities
Form, communicate, and execute on a technical vision for the next generation of OpenSea’s architecture that leverages highly scalable and event-driven patterns
Write reliable, low latency marketplace infrastructure software that will eventually process billions of dollars a day worth of transaction volume, including highly performant blockchain indexing systems, order management systems at scale, and REST & Websocket API endpoints
Raise the bar for internal understanding of best practices in building highly performant & event-driven systems with “live” characteristics
Mentor and train other team members and act as an internal thought leader and agitator for architectural rigor and cleanliness
Requirements
At least 6 years of experience as a software engineer
Strong fluency in event-driven system design patterns, leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Flink, and Debezium, as well as distributed systems more generally
Strong fluency in JVM languages like Kotlin or Java
Strong fluency and opinionated in database choice and schema design for highly performant and scalable applications
Intrinsic interest in leveraging new tools (e.g. AI) to increase work efficiency and quality
Passion for (blockchain) technology, NFTs, and the potential of digital ownership is a huge plus
The base salary for this full-time position, which spans across multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $190,000 to $345,000 plus benefits & equity.
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team.
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