About Icebreaker

• Icebreaker’s mission is to connect people, directly and fairly. Learn more
• Get in on the ground floor at an early stage company tackling a $500B+ market where crypto, privacy, marketing, and AI meet.
• You'll be joining a team of customer-obsessed all-stars from Google and Coinbase (+ all having startup backgrounds) and will be shipping beautiful and impactful product starting in week 1.
• You'll have the opportunity to build things right, from the ground up, meaningfully help hundreds of talented builders, and join us as we solve a problem that could change the way the internet works, all while having a ton of fun and growing tremendously in the process.

Responsibilities

• The Founding Back-end Engineer is a mid to senior level role, and will be responsible for building and owning key pipelines. Icebreaker builds the world’s most advanced network hypergraph, synthesizing data sources in realtime from multiple onchain and offchain data sources
• You will be working in close collaboration with Icebreaker’s Backend Lead, along with other engineers on the Icebreaker Engineering team, and more on product, UX, and operations.
• In addition to core responsibilities building and owning data ingestion pipelines, you will also be working on:
  • Internal as well as decentralized data storage, verifiable credentials generation, recommendation systems, AI agent pipelines, zero knowledge circuitry, and data export integrations.

Qualifications

• Experience with Go or similar high-scale backend systems
  • Python and TypeScript are a plus
• Experience with distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, fault-tolerant strategies, caching and performance tuning, and database systems (SQL, NoSQL)
  • Graph database experience is a plus
• Experience working in technical cultures at the highest levels of excellence
• Self-starter, ability to quickly transform high level requirements into working code that accomplishes the core purpose while making reasonable tradeoffs
• Comfortable with basic AWS cloud services (EC2, EBS, EKS, etc.)
• Nice to have: Experience with decentralized architectures, zero-knowledge circuits or other cryptography, applied machine learning, or smart contracts
• Required: Domestic US-based, NYC preferred