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MIRROR

Backend Engineer

MIRROR, New York, New York, us, 10261


At Mirror, our mission is to empower creative communities with web3-native products that are beautiful and intuitive. We are a small, passionate team with a breadth of experience that has been building in this space for years. We’re currently growing our team in New York City in order to work on a new web3 social product. We’re backed by some of the best investors in web3, including a16z Crypto, Union Square Ventures, Variant and Electric Capital.You areAn experienced backend engineer with a proven track record of shipping products and navigating ambiguity. You have a passion for engineering practices and consistently improve your craft with like-minded teammates. You are able to work in-person at our office in New York City on a hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

Architect, develop, and execute on our product roadmap

Discover and evaluate web3 technologies and know when to build using 3rd party APIs or in-house solutions

Build products on top of our GraphQL API alongside frontend engineers

Architect backend services that are well-monitored and well-tested

Improve infrastructure and monitoring consistently

Requirements

4+ years writing production software (bonus points for web3 experience)

Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale

Are a self-starter in proposing and carrying out technical solutions to ambiguous business problems

Have a passion for continuously improving dev-ops for yourself and fellow engineers

Experience with Typescript, Node, AWS

Nice to have

History of working closely with product and users

Meaningful open source contributions or public code for us to appreciate

Experience with monitoring tools (Posthog, NewRelic, ElasticSearch, etc)

Web3 experience

Salary Range

$200,000 - $250,000 (based on experience)

Mirror's Benefits

Competitive stock option grant

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 80% of premiums paid by the company

Up to $3,000 laptop reimbursement

Up to $500 work-from-home/remote office setup reimbursement

Up to $150/month home internet and cell phone reimbursement

Short-term and long-term disability insurance, with premiums paid by the company

$50,000 life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, with premiums paid by the company

Access to 401(k) plan, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (depending on medical insurance plan selection), and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

Flexible time off policy

Three months’ paid baby bonding leave

Hybrid in-person office work schedule in NYC

Team offsites for periodic in-person collaborative strategy and work sessions

A passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3