Staff Backend Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers a very competitive salary and is integral to a cutting-edge sector. Strong growth opportunities available in a pioneering company.
- Competitive salary range: $190,000 to $345,000/year
- Lead development in groundbreaking NFT platform
- Opportunity for mentorship and team leadership
- Requires extensive technical experience and proven skills
Pros
- High compensation potential ($190,000 to $345,000/year)
- Focus on innovative technologies in a rapidly growing field (NFTs and blockchain)
- Mentorship and leadership opportunities within an experienced team
Cons
- High expectations for experience and technical skills (6+ years)
- Fast-paced work environment may lead to stress
- Strong technical focus may limit exposure to other business areas
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Remote
Good fit
- Skilled backend engineers with event-driven architecture experience
- Tech enthusiasts passionate about blockchain and digital ownership
- Leaders looking to make significant contributions in a growing field
Not recommended for
- New graduates without software engineering experience
- Candidates uninterested in cutting-edge technologies
- Individuals seeking a rigid corporate structure over a startup culture
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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