Product engineer

New York City

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In-office

Approx.

190k

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