**About Scratchpad **
At Scratchpad, our mission is to unlock the highest levels of performance for sales teams. We believe we can do that by reducing complexity and creating delightful experiences, which has led us to pioneer the first workspace for revenue teams. We take the most tedious parts of daily work and turn them into efficient, delightful experiences that positively impact salespeople's professional and personal lives. But don’t take our word for it - read what our customers and top-tier investors are raving about
**Life at Scratchpad **
The Scratchpad team is defined by our values: simplicity, ideas, results, speed, delight, and feedback. We profoundly care about our customers, the work we do, and each other. You'll constantly be learning from your colleagues as we have a strong culture of feedback. We believe it's part of what has made us successful as a "remote first" company.
Working on the Engineering Team
You will collaborate with engineers, leadership, product, design, and customers to drive quality and innovation. Being a creative problem solver, you’ll enjoy designing solutions for difficult engineering problems. Building a workspace designed to improve sales performance is not easy, so we're looking for resilient and ambitious people who are excited by this challenge. If you’re compelled to work on a team that leads with empathy, values personal growth and never stops learning, join us!
**About You **
User-Focused: You put the user first with a keen sense of how your code will impact the user's experience in terms of performance, security and usability
Language Agnostic: we use a lightweight tech stack of Postgres, Go and Vue
Team Player: You're proactive; you can jump in and help clarify specs, work with users to understand bugs, etc.
Experience: 6+ years as a backend engineer
Goal Oriented: Problem-solver mindset who's biased towards action and getting stuff done
Self Aware: You don’t shy away from asking for help and are unafraid to say, “I don’t know”.
Lifelong Learner: Place value on personal growth and constructive feedback
Empathetic Communicator: You take a compassionate, organized and collaborative communication style with colleagues and users
Your Impact
Take full ownership of bringing specs to life by impacting all aspects of the development process from ideation, design, delivery, maintenance, and operations
Collaborate with teammates to come up with solutions to architectural and scaling challenges
Work cross-functionally and with end-users (revenue teams) to craft the best experience possible
Help shape the future of Scratchpad's culture and product
Perks
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 80% premium coverage)
$1,200 L&D stipend per fiscal year
Paid parental leave
Flexible Vacation/PTO + 11 company-wide holidays
401k with 4% company matching (and vests instantly!)
Stipend for home office
At least two in-person company offsites a year
Fully remote
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $172,000 - $200,000. Compensation estimates are based on market data about the role and level while individual compensation offers will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
**Our Commitment **
We believe that great ideas can come from anyone and anywhere. As an equal opportunity employer, we interact with respect, kindness, and compassion. We are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion. We're not afraid to let go of existing beliefs as we learn new information and uncover better ideas.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Diverse teams build better products, offer more unique perspectives and help foster an inclusive environment for everyone.
At Horizon, we’re building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants.
We have two amazing products to make this real:
Sequence, which consists of i) the first user-friendly smart wallet for crypto, NFTs, Web3 + the metaverse, and ii) a developer platform to make building Web3 applications easy on Ethereum and other EVM chains.
And Skyweaver, a digital trading card game—powered by Sequence—where players can win, own, trade and sell their NFT game items.
Sequence is poised to drive Web3 adoption on a massive scale by making blockchain easy, fun and powerful for users and developers. And, Skyweaver is a groundbreaking video game with an unprecedented player-owned economy, novel gameplay, and an already fervent community.
While the challenge is hard, we find it incredibly fun. And, we have the ingredients to make it happen: a well-capitalized company with some of the best investors in the world (Reddit co-founder, Coinbase, Initialized, and more), an amazing team of leaders in the blockchain space, engineers who have built widely popular open source, a former top McKinsey strategy consultant, gaming industry veterans, and founders who have built and sold successful companies. You'll get to work with and learn from them all. Learn more at https://horizon.io/
About the Role
We're looking for someone with experience architecting, writing, testing and shipping production-quality code in Go, with a background in Ethereum development. You are rigourous and have a refined eye for simple arhitecture and clean code, and you are able to balance tradeoffs inherent in all design decisions.
You enjoy building scalable, fault-tolerant systems. You understand the meaning of value and delivering products that achieve business outcomes while laying the foundation of great tech that affects our entire org, and is impactful. This matters to you.
As a senior engineer, you have a deep understanding of designing robust, well-designed code with thoughtful architecture. You can drive and self-direct major areas of our stack. While not a strict requirement, you are comfortable working with and guiding more intermediate and junior engineers when needed.
Given our size, self-driven, and open-minded engineers will thrive best in this role. While small, you'll be working alongside some of the best engineers, and open-source contributors—and a company dedicated to your success. You will learn a lot.
Responsibilities:
-Architect, develop, and implement the infrastructure, and infrastructure stack of Skyweaver and Sequence -Design and implement services that are scalable, and fault-tolerant -Build services that interface with the Ethereum blockchain -Contribute to open source works in the Sequence stack -Extend and evolve our toolchain, to run our stack effectively -Design architectural foundations that are robust and sound, so that future engineers can build on your work with ease and speed
Requirements:
-5+ years shipping production-grade code in Go -Experience and knowledge of the Ethereum blockchain, its tooling and ecosystem -Knowledge of distributed systems design -Experience with data systems, both in their design and practical use -Experience with one of the major cloud providers, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. -Growth mindset. You love to learn, and actively search out new material and technologies
Why Horizon?
· A chance to deliver massive impact at a small and quickly growing company · Competitive salary and equity package · Accelerate your career by joining at the early stages · Be part of defining Web3, the next generation of the Internet, and creating symbiotic economies where both users and creators share in the value generated by networks · Work with an outstanding team made of wonderful people who have built and sold successful companies, launched amazing products, and have rich experience in infrastructure, architecture, blockchain, games, finance, investing, strategy, consulting, design, marketing, community, and more. · Work life balance unlike the “crunch” culture you find at larger studios · New PC, and generous allowance for work-from-home setup · Health, vision and dental benefits for Canadian employees · We’re conscious about mental health and have modern vacation policies · We invest in everyone’s personal development and subsidize courses, books, and conferences, so you never stop learning · Work on hard, big, meaningful problems that can shift markets · Learn more about our values and the traits we embody at https://careers.horizon.io/
We are committed to diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, genders and faiths. While we're building incredible products, we also want to add to our wonderful team and company. The best way to do that is to attract talented folks from all areas and to have their experiences inform their work.