Founding Software Engineer
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Pocket Protector Labs
16.7 - 25K USD
Full-time
Remote
Founding MemberEngineerDevAwsBackend
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
Pocket Protector Labs is an equal opportunity employer.