Product engineer
New York City
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In-office
$190k
salary +
token grants (as opposed to regular equity)
Back-end / full-stack
Crypto / Web3
Brief description
[This posting was recently changed to NYC-only.]
Back-end-leaning full-stack product role at a crypto startup building an abstraction layer that allows developers to build for many different blockchains at once. Lots of new work (some maintenance, but it's less important), better work-life balance than typical startups [more on this below], and get paid to write open-source code.
The company itself is based in the US, but a lot of their engineering team is in Argentina.
What they're looking for
[Required]
Open to in-office in NYC, or possibly frequent travel to NYC if otherwise an exceptional fit.
2+ YOE, though they prefer 4+ and would go to 2 only for exceptional interview performance.
[Added 10/8] Some amount of E2E web development experience
Familiar with Typescript.
Interest in or background with crypto.
Open to a (paid) take-home as part of their interview process.
[Important]
Experience with startups.
Familiar with Solidity smart contracts.
[Nice to have]
Experience with larger companies. Startup background is more important, but unlike most startups they consider large-company experience a plus.
What they're offering
Salary: approx 190k.
Equity: No, but (like a lot of crypto) they issue token grants instead.
Crypto-experienced founding team: founder was an early Coinbase employee and later head of product, created BAT for Brave.
Company trips (they recently went to Korea)
Reasonable pace with engineers heavily involved in setting the pace of workload. Our impression is that their work-life balance expectations are more reasonable than most startups.
Autonomy and input. Engineers are not just implementing code, they have input on design and process as well.
Hiring process
Interview with us [otherbranch]
3 calls: one talking about blockchain, one live coding (everyday async code, not algos), one culture fit.
Paid take-home project closely related to the actual everyday work of the job
