OpenSea’s Head of Product Nate Chastain disclosed that the popular marketplace currently employs only 37 employees and is desperately in need of more hands following a surge in trading volume.
As the popularity of nonfungible tokens grows, OpenSea, the world’s largest nonfungible token marketplace, is in desperate need of employees.
Referral bonuses are also available, according to Chastain, who stated, “Will pay 1 ETH to everyone who connects us to engineers or designers that we hire.”
There are currently a number of available roles on the company’s careers page, ranging from business development directors to full-stack engineers to finance managers. OpenSea is keen to grow its workforce, according to Chastain, who confirmed this on Twitter:
“Trying to supplement our hiring process with some guerrilla recruiting due to the pressing need for manpower.”
“We don’t want to over-index on interview skills/algorithm work,” he said, adding that for technical positions, the interview process includes some actual coding tasks relating to hypothetical OpenSea capabilities. We take a holistic approach to evaluating candidates.”
The popularity of OpenSea has risen in recent months as NFT fever resurfaces, fueled mostly by CryptoPunks and Axie Infinity.
OpenSea has generated $2.84 billion in trading volume over the last 30 days, according to DappRadar. Its daily volume reached an all-time high of $224.6 million on Aug. 28 from 111,800 transactions in a 24-hour period.
OpenSea is the largest consumer of Ethereum network fees, according to Etherscan’s Gas Tracker. It has produced 21.6 percent of Ethereum’s total transaction fees in the last 24 hours, totaling $5.8 million, more than Uniswap and Tether combined.
After obtaining $100 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in late July, OpenSea became a crypto unicorn.
