Senior Engineer

KnownOrigin, one of the most innovative non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, announced in June 2022 that eBay has acquired KnownOrigin. KnownOrigin’s technology and platform provides artists a place to create unique, authentic, digital collectables, in the form of NFTs.

This acquisition is an important step in eBay’s tech-led reimagination, ushering in a new era of digital collecting to the world’s top destination for collectables. KnownOrigin, which was founded in 2018 in Manchester, UK, enables artists and collectors to create, buy and resell NFTs via blockchain-support transactions. Since its founding, KnownOrigin has seen significant growth as it has revolutionised the way people create, buy, and sell NFTs.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Known Origin team based in Manchester.

You will report directly to the tech lead within your squad as well as working closing with the wider engineering team.

Responsibilities include :

• Building out high available and automated infrastructure provisioning and monitoring including CI/CD solutions as well as implementing best practice for the wider product suite. 
• Building highly scalable products leveraging a mixture of cloud infrastructure and web 3.0 native infrastructure. 
• Engineering and delivering solutions which are capable of onboarding many millions of users into the web 3.0 space
• Delivering decentralised solutions which can handle web 2 scale but remain open to future web 3 technologies
• You will be embedded within one of our cross-functional squads made of Engineers, Product people and User Experience Designers.
• Our squads are largely autonomous and self organising, so you’ll be keen on participating in a range of activities and workshops.
• Reporting directly to the tech lead, you will have opportunities to design and deliver technology changes through the stack. 
• Work closely with the wider community to Identify, build and release features
• Your work will be life-changing for a new generation of creators, allowing them to make a living from their creativity in previously impossible ways.

 
Job Requirements:

• 5+ years experience building software solutions
• 0-3+ years JavaScript/NodeJS experience (React/Marko highly desirable)
• 1-5+ years experience in using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, terraform and other associated technologies and libraries.
• Exposure to cloud services such as Google Cloud and or AWS
• Exposure to building high available and scalable HTTP restful APIs
• Exposure to building out highly available database solutions
• Any blockchain exposure is desirable and look upon favourably, any familiarity with the web3 stack and associated technologies