Senior backend developer (Elixir)

ChainAPI is the integration platform for Airnode, the API gateway for smart contracts running on blockchains. ChainAPI is a founding member of API3, which builds blockchain-native, decentralized APIs with DAO-governance and quantifiable security. See the whitepaper for more information about API3 and ChainAPI.

We are an internationally distributed team, and the work is remote. Our core hours are 12:00 UTC–16:00 UTC.

About us

My name: Burak Benligiray

My position: Co-founder

Company name: ChainAPI

Website: https://www.chainapi.com/ (yet to be launched)

Company info and history: We previously built the Honeycomb Marketplace, an API marketplace for smart contracts. Both the platform backend and the components that integrated APIs to Ethereum were built using Phoenix+Elixir, and we are extremely pleased with the results. From there, we have moved on to found API3, which raised a high profile seed round and performed a successful public distribution. Recently, API3 has announced the API3 Alliance, which is a group of API providers that will operate Airnodes to provide first-party oracle services. ChainAPI is needed for these API providers (and more) to bring real world data and services to blockchain applications at scale.

About the job

Job description:

• Work on building out the backend REST API for ChainAPI
• Review and provide feedback for code written by other team members
• Play an active role in the design and architecture of our solutions
• Learn new technologies as needed

Salary range: Competitive, paid in stablecoins

Position on remote work: Only full remote

Qualifications or experience required:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software developer
• Proficient with Elixir
• Good grasp of modern software development tools and processes (testing frameworks, CI/CD, version control, etc.)

Bonus qualifications:

• Understanding of blockchain technologies
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL
• Experience with AWS

What the successful job applicant will be working on: We will be building ChainAPI, which is a platform for API providers to integrate their services to blockchains and a platform for blockchain developers to integrate API services to their decentralized applications. Accordingly, ChainAPI is a combination of a traditional Web platform and a decentralized application.

About the interview process

You will have multiple interviews with high level technical team members who you will be working closely with.

Further info

This is a very suitable position for senior developers who are looking to break into blockchain development while utilizing the full experience they have accumulated from working on traditional web development.