Remote Founding Software Engineer - Pocket ProtectorBlockchain Works • New York, New York, United States

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Remote Founding Software Engineer - Pocket Protector

Blockchain Works

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

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Summary: Software Engineering · Full-time United States · Remote $200,000 – $300,000 USD per year About Pocket Protector: Pocket Protector is a social trading bot backed by Electric Capital and Dragonfly that enables you to trade with friends and discover + follow new top traders. Our social-focused features make trading more engaging and profitable, helping our traders discover alpha, ape rapidly, and avoid rugs. We’re growing virally from group to group and from Twitter through word-of-mouth spread right now with 4x retention compared to other trading bots. Our founding team spent 5+ years in product and engineering roles during the early days of Facebook/Amazon, then raised a combined $25M+ from top web2 VCs including Founder’s Fund, Greylock, and Y-Combinator. All 3 startups we founded were acquired by a combination of private equity, startups, and big tech. In crypto we were first money in on over half a dozen $1B+ crypto projects beginning in 2017, and also ran a crypto hedge fund that consistently outperformed BTC across multiple cycles. Our vision is to build a social trading exchange for crypto. We believe that discovering and trading in crypto has always been inherently social, and by leaning into this we can build a better exchange. By connecting traders with each other, leveraging reputation and status to reinforce trust, and by enabling trading to be safer, faster, and more profitable with friends - we believe we can build a new, dominant social trading exchange. We are looking for a Founding Software Engineer with experience building scaled consumer products and in crypto on Solana. If you have a passion for consumer products, blockchain and social, we’d love to hear from you! Responsibilities: Work closely with the CEO to support the vision, mission and guiding principles of the company Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend infrastructure Identify bottlenecks and optimize performance of our services to handle increasing traffic and load Develop monitoring and alerting systems to maintain high levels of system availability and performance Continuously improve system architecture, security, and best practices to stay up-to-date with industry standards Requirements: 5+ years of experience in backend development and infrastructure engineering Strong understanding of blockchain technology, particularly the Solana ecosystem Proficient in programming languages such as Javascript and Rust Experience with cloud computing platforms (GCP, AWS) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, Cloud Firestore) Benefits: Competitive salary and equity package Generous vacation and time-off policy Opportunities for personal and professional growth in a fast-paced, dynamic industry
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