Backend Engineer

About blocktorch

blocktorch is building one of the first web3 observability platforms to help web3 teams reach scale. We are on a mission to provide engineering teams with an observability platform for logs, traces, and metrics. blocktorch is the place where engineering teams can understand the behavior of smart contracts, do root cause analysis and become data-driven.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement and deliver microservices
• Build and manage data pipelines
• Analyze and solve production issues using observability tools

What You Need

• Experience building event-driven architectures
• Experience using AWS services e.g. lambda functions, AWS SQS, AWS SNS…
• Proficiency with Node.js or Python
• Developed and shipped cloud products on scale

Nice to Have

• Experience managing Elasticsearch clusters
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with time-series databases
• Experience working with on-chain data
• Knowledge about EVM chains

Benefits

• Remote work benefits
• Flexible working hours
• A yearly budget for conferences (We’ll go together to ETH conferences)
• International team
• Quarterly team events and retreats

About Us

We are a small team fuelled by ambition and working hard to bring web3 scalability to the next level. Our values are:

• we are staying humble and never stop learning
• We push boundaries as a team to solve hard problems.
• We are international and diversity is part of our DNA
• Strong opinions, weakly held
• We give and receive feedback with empathy and respect
• We are not afraid to own our failures and share the learnings