Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Horizon Blockchain Games, you'll architect and ship production-quality infrastructure for Sequence and Skyweaver, our crypto wallet and Web3 developer platform, and our player-owned digital trading card game. You bring deep experience in Go and Ethereum development, with a refined eye for simple architecture and clean code. You thrive designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and can self-direct major areas of the stack while mentoring intermediate and junior engineers as needed.

What you'll do

• Architect, develop, and implement the infrastructure and infrastructure stack of Skyweaver and Sequence
• Design and implement services that are scalable and fault-tolerant
• Build services that interface with the Ethereum blockchain
• Contribute to open source works in the Sequence stack
• Extend and evolve the toolchain to run the stack effectively
• Design architectural foundations that are robust and sound so that future engineers can build on your work with ease and speed

What you bring

• 5+ years shipping production-grade code in Go
• Experience and knowledge of the Ethereum blockchain, its tooling and ecosystem
• Knowledge of distributed systems design
• Experience with data systems, both in their design and practical use
• Experience with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• A growth mindset and a passion for learning new material and technologies

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• New PC and generous allowance for work-from-home setup
• Modern vacation policies with conscious attention to mental health
• Subsidized courses, books, and conferences for personal development
• Work-life balance focused culture

About Horizon Blockchain Games

Horizon Blockchain Games is building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants. The company develops Sequence, a crypto and Web3 wallet plus seamless developer platform for Ethereum, NFTs, Web3, DeFi and Dapps, and Skyweaver, a digital trading card game powered by Sequence where players own the game items they win and purchase. Horizon is backed by top-tier investors including Reddit's co-founder and Coinbase.