Sr. Backend Engineer, Web3

Blockchain Creative Labs Blockchain Creative Labs (BCL), FOX’s Web3 media and creative technology company, is on a mission to forge the future of content creation, distribution and monetization through connecting creators and communities with blockchain technology. Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including the FOX Network and FOX Sports. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking around blockchain technology. FOX has been responsible for some of the most exciting and disruptive content in entertainment and demonstrated that spirit of innovation once again by moving into the blockchain and Non-fungible Token (NFT) space. By teaming up with Bento Box Entertainment, the Emmy Award-winning animation studio behind hit shows such as Bob's Burgers and The Great North, FOX launched Blockchain Creative Labs in 2021 to offer cutting-edge end-to-end solutions for content creators, IP owners, and advertising partners to leverage the power of blockchain and NFTs to build, launch, manage and sell NFT content and experiences, as well as digital goods and assets.

• Build, deploy and maintain secure and scalable cloud solutions for highly available digital services
• Work as part of a fast-moving engineering team to drive projects in an agile environment and achieve the best possible technical outcomes
• Stay up to speed with latest cloud services, technologies and patterns to build robust and resilient applications
• Build and integrate tools to automate operational processes

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining highly available web infrastructure and backend applications where uptime and security is the highest priority
• Hands on experience building and designing fault-tolerant applications with a focus on usage of IaC solutions, experience with AWS CDK preferred
• Experience building applications with typescript, python, and scripting languages
• Hands on-experience architecting and building application infrastructure on AWS (using services such as IAM, API Gateway, S3, Dynamodb, EventBridge, AppSync, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, VPC, Lambda) and to inform decision-making about good choices of infrastructure for our applications
• Passion for learning and achieving operational excellence

• Experience of Web3 is not a prerequisite but the right candidate will have curiosity for this area and apply the technology to solve new problems at scale
• Knowledge of the infrastructure and protocols behind video, broadcast and streaming media systems would be a plus
• Experience building fault tolerant APIs with GraphQL, AppSync experience preferred

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