About the company
It was 2013 when Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea started the Stacks project at the Princeton Computer Science Department. Shortly after, they went through Y Combinator and attracted other Princeton scientists to work on Stacks. They founded Hiro, then named Blockstack PBC, to support the development and growth of Stacks. Today, Hiro is one of many companies that works on Stacks. Hiro contributes to Stacks’ core infrastructure and open-source libraries and builds products like the Stacks Wallet and Stacks Explorer. We’re a globally distributed team that includes scientists from Princeton, Stanford, MIT and other top universities.
Job Summary
What You’ll Do:
📍Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that drive Hiro’s developer platform (e.g. blockchain data, token metadata, ordinals) on Bitcoin and Stacks. 📍Ensure high performance and reliability of our APIs – you’ll optimize endpoints, databases, and caching to handle increasing load with low latency and high uptime. 📍Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to plan and implement new features end-to-end, delivering seamless experiences for developers. 📍Write and automate thorough tests (unit, integration, performance) for your code – we use tools like k6 for load testing and Playwright for end-to-end testing – to ensure every release is of top quality. 📍Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, contributing to design decisions and championing engineering best practices to continuously improve code quality. 📍Monitor and troubleshoot production systems as needed, debug issues across services and the stack, and implement fixes to maintain the stability and security of our platform. 📍Work across the stack when necessary – primarily on backend APIs, but occasionally diving into frontend code or internal tools – to deliver complete solutions and improve our overall developer experience.
What We’re Looking For:
📍5+ years of software development experience building and shipping production applications, with a focus on backend systems or API-driven services. 📍Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Rust. (Our core services are built with these languages.) You can quickly pick up new languages and technologies as needed. 📍Demonstrated experience designing, building, and scaling web APIs or microservices – you have tackled challenges in system design, performance tuning, and reliability for high-traffic services. 📍Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL – from data modeling and querying to performance optimization.
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