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. We’re 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
📍Comfortable 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 📍Strong logical reasoning and first principles thinking, vs. chasing hype and fancy new tech. Strives for clean, modular, maintainable, and simple code. Strong debugging skills 📍Strong 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 📍Eager, proactive, sweats the details, resourceful, thorough, strong work ethic, and rolls up sleeves to unblock
TECHNICAL EXPECTATIONS
📍Expertise in our stack (NextJS/Vercel, AWS (S3, KMS, SM, Cloudfront), Express/Heroku, Prisma ORM, Postgres/PgBouncer, Cloudflare, NodeJS/Typescript) 📍Deeply familiar with common system design solutions (event-driven architectures, caching, different layers of testing, concurrency control, connection poolers, transaction isolation levels, state reconciliation, etc.) 📍Familiar with common blockchain problems (syncing state between chain and database, offchain signature verification, key management best practices, handling block reorgs, etc.) 📍Security-oriented: cares deeply about exploit resistance best practices (encryption, access control, principle of least privilege, IP whitelisting, nonces/expiries, credential rotation, package pinning, etc.) 📍Web3 knowledge and enthusiasm is a big plus: Solidity, rollup architecture, alt-L1s, tracking EIP developments, etc.
