Founding Blockchain Engineer

You will work closely with senior technical leadership to define priorities, ship reliable systems, and maintain production-grade blockchain infrastructure. You will optimize services for speed, scale, security, and robustness, write well-tested code, perform code reviews, and own projects end-to-end. You will diagnose and resolve complex concurrency and networking issues, contribute to security-focused designs, and operate 24/7 real-time systems that protect Web3 users.

Responsibilities

• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with senior leadership
• Optimize service infrastructure for speed, scale, security, and robustness
• Write high-quality, unit-tested code and participate in code reviews
• Own projects end-to-end and be accountable for delivery
• Operate and maintain 24/7 real-time systems focused on security
• Design and implement security-focused system architecture
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership and guidance
• Collaborate on deployment pipelines and continuous integration

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in Go and/or JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience with lower-level blockchain technology including consensus, networking, MEV, and security
• Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing
• Knowledge of security-focused design and security engineering principles
• Experience with unit testing, code review, and continuous integration
• Preferred: Solidity development and building decentralized applications
• Preferred: Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
• Preferred: Experience acting as a technical lead and mentoring others
• Preferred: Basic developer operations knowledge and software development life cycle

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible hours
• Work-from-home policy
• Three weeks vacation plus year-end shutdown (Dec 24 - Jan 1)
• Quarterly company in-person meetups with expenses paid