About the company
At Azuki, you will have an opportunity to develop decentralized IPs and build innovative products that change how fans engage and experience anime. Weāre building the right team to navigate and pioneer a multimedia brand for the future. Our mission is to build the future of anime by harnessing the power of community and blockchain technology. You will also have end to end ownership over your work ranging from storyboarding all the way to the final composition. Chiru Labs (Azuki) is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.
Job Summary
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
šComfortable owning complex projects to completion from start to finish (architecture, scoping, and implementation), based on extensive prior experience, with a focus on reliability, correctness, and security šStrong logical reasoning and first principles thinking, vs. chasing hype and fancy new tech. Strives for clean, modular, maintainable, and simple code. Strong debugging skills šStrong communication skills, able to distill complex topics simply to the intended audience. Will be working closely with stakeholders across different functions (design, product, business) to convert product goals into robust and maintainable technical solutions šEager, proactive, sweats the details, resourceful, thorough, strong work ethic, and rolls up sleeves to unblock. Excited to join a fast-paced unique startup environment experimenting in both web3 and web2 šBonus: proficient in using modern web technologies like WebGL, Three.js, and other cutting-edge frameworks to bring designs to life šBonus: interested in web3 (general interest in Solidity, rollup architecture, tracking EIP developments, and onboarding developments is a plus)
TECHNICAL EXPECTATIONS
šComfortable with fullstack, especially frontend. Expertise in our stack is a plus (NextJS/Vercel, AWS (S3, KMS, SM, Cloudfront), Express/Heroku, Prisma ORM, Postgres/PgBouncer, Cloudflare, NodeJS/Typescript, Remix) šDeeply familiar with common system design solutions (event-driven architectures, caching, different layers of testing, concurrency control, connection poolers, transaction isolation levels, state reconciliation, etc.) šDeeply technical and cares about product, performance, reliability, and maintainability šFamiliar with common blockchain problems (syncing state between chain and database, offchain signature verification, key management best practices, handling block reorgs, etc.) šSecurity-oriented: cares deeply about exploit resistance best practices (encryption, access control, principle of least privilege, IP whitelisting, nonces/expiries, credential rotation, package pinning, etc.) šComfortable with contributing to devops/devx: basic system monitoring/alerts/oncall, test environments, etc.
