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Backend Engineer

Whetstone Research

Backend Engineer

Reposted 19 Days Ago

In-Office or Remote

Hiring Remotely in United States

Mid level

In-Office or Remote

Hiring Remotely in United States

Mid level

The Backend Engineer will implement new SDK and Indexer features, automate testing, support integration, and oversee production releases.

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About the role

This role is going to be working on the open source Doppler SDK and Indexer.

Responsibilities

Implementing - new SDK and Indexer features
Testing - automate backend testing alongside a release pipeline
Support - helping applications and protocols integrate the SDK and Indexer
Shipping - overseeing successful production releases with release notes and versioning

What we're looking for

Ideally are experienced implementing and delivering highly reliable and scalable backend data services. You are deeply familiar with TypeScript and GraphQL. You have an understanding of the blockchain industry and the difficulties of managing multichain indexer deployments. You know that testnet faucets are frustrating to deal with and have clever solutions for testing across all various configurations that users may end up deploying. You have experience contributing to and managing open source software projects external teams rely on in production. You like helping others solve their problems with novel solutions and are a great communicator.

About Whetstone Research

Whetstone Research is focused on designing and building new protocols that accelerate the future of onchain markets. The team is less than 10 people with deep hands on experience in the blockchain industry; previously at Uniswap, Primitive, Aztec, and numerous others. We are working on Doppler, a hyper-efficient price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping Protocol built on the EVM, used by Zora and others. Learn more about Whetstone on our website or read our blog.

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