Fullstack Team Lead

About Lava:

At Lava we believe blockchain data should be accurate and access to this data should be scalable, private, and uncensored.  Our mission is to create a marketplace for blockchain data via aligned token incentives and an open-source protocol for RPC nodes and APIs.  We are backed by some of the top crypto-native venture capital funds and angel investors.

With a deep technical background in cybersecurity, we have extensive experience in finding, exploiting, or patching digital vulnerabilities.  As a team we are accomplished founders, CTOs, engineers, and business people inspired to support the creativity blockchains are unlocking and its future applications.  

Lava is remote-first with team members from across the world. 

Where we need help:

Engineers from across the world are working together to build on our open source code-base built on the Cosmos SDK ecosystem. Lava Network is seeking a meticulous, frontend-focused Full Stack Team Lead to join our rapidly growing team.

Job duties:

• Lead scrum team through planning, daily meeting and execution, and retrospective
• Mentor and grow team members through 1:1 meetings, tech design, code review, testing and problem solving
• Work closely with Product manager on the roadmap, sprint and user stories.
• Work closely with DevOps team to make the team and dev cycle more efficient
• Work with other R&D teams to progress company-wide projects
• Make technological Research and proof of concepts for innovative ideas and new technology
• Reporting directly to SVP Engineering

Technical Knowledge:

• Full stack development with Nodejs, Typescript, Next JS, React, Golang
• Web protocols: HTTP 1.1/2, WebSockets, GRPC, REST, JsonRPC
• Databases - Postgresql
• Working in containerized environment (Docker, Kuberenets)
• Working in cloud environment (AWS/GCP) and cloud native tools such as LBs, Api Gateway
• Backend architecture such as Pub-Sub, 3-layer app, Event streaming, Serverless, GraphQL, NoSQL,
• Production engineering:
• Handling production environment, monitoring, alerts, debugging, etc
• Deployment strategies: Canary, Gradual rollouts
• Working in a CI/CD environment

About our Culture:We are passionate about what we're doing and our distributed global team is already working well together from 8 different countries.  We feel our shared values are the secret to our energized culture. 

Our Values:

• We are learning and unafraid of asking basic questions
• We each take the initiative, we are capable and reliable
• We respect each other's time because it is valuable
• We choose our battles
• Feedback delivered with kindness is great, even if difficult to say or hear
• We listen with the intent to understand and change our mind
• We pick up the phone to resolve friction
• We take ownership of misses and direct praise to the team
• We choose joy to increase positivity