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Founding Engineer

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Founding Engineer - High-Growth DeFi Mobile Trading App

Location: Remote - US Remote (Must be able to travel to NYC 2 weeks at a time, every 1-2 months for in person collaboration)

Compensation: $200K - $300K

We are a rapidly growing mobile app—the “Robinhood for DeFi”—that allows anyone to trade cryptocurrencies on-chain through a user-friendly interface. Since our launch, we have attracted 1.5+ million users. We are a lean, mission-driven team dedicated to making decentralized finance open and accessible to the world. We are looking for a Founding Engineer to assume a hands-on role in designing, building, and maintaining the production features that power our platform.

You will have end-to-end feature ownership across both our mobile and backend systems, shaping the core user experience for millions of users. This role demands rapid iteration, a security-first mindset, and the ability to design robust, scalable features. You will be a decision-maker and implementer, directly influencing the technical direction of the company.

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Senior Software Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer - High-Volume Fintech & Payments Platform

Location: Remote - Based in LATAM / EST /Europe

Compensation: $130K - $180K

We are a technology company building the next generation of money and financial products. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build the core backend systems that power our fintech and payments platform. This role requires deep technical expertise in high-scale transaction systems and strong product awareness to deliver reliable, secure, and impactful solutions.

You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our backend services, focusing on architecting, building, and operating systems that handle high-volume financial transactions securely and reliably. You will act as a technical leader, driving feature delivery and raising the engineering bar across the team while ensuring our systems align with business priorities.

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Senior Fullstack Engineer

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Senior Fullstack Engineer - DeFi Trading & Yield Platform

Location: Remote - NYC or SF based candidates heavily preferred

Compensation: $150K - $175K

We are building the leading trading and yield platform for DeFi, founded by former industry leaders with deep expertise in algorithmic trading. Backed by top-tier institutional investors from both traditional finance and crypto, we are creating cutting-edge, crypto-native technology. We are seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer excited to work on a complex backend managing billions of dollars in crypto transactions while delivering exceptional user experiences.

You will have the opportunity to build across the entire stack, integrating multiple DeFi protocols and connecting with various blockchains. This role demands full ownership of features, requiring you to balance implementation speed with long-term quality and scalability. You will be a key player in shaping our success by designing and building systems capable of high-throughput execution.

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Senior Fullstack Engineer

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Senior Fullstack Engineer - Web3 User Acquisition Platform

Location: Remote - US (EST Preferred)

Compensation: $150K - $200K

We are a leading web3 user acquisition platform that has powered user onboarding for over 500 protocols since 2021, facilitating over 500 million transactions and serving over 3 million users across 40+ chains. Our platform, which includes gamified activations and unique on-chain credentials, is infrastructure for major players across DeFi, gaming, AI, and NFT ecosystems. Backed by $21M in total funding, we are seeking a highly experienced Senior Fullstack Engineer to own end-to-end feature delivery across our core platform and new initiatives.

In this high-impact role, you will take full ownership of major product features from conception through deployment. You will be instrumental in driving architectural decisions for both frontend and backend systems, ensuring performance and scalability across our complex, multi-chain platform. You will collaborate directly with the Head of Product and Founders to shape product strategy, establish best practices, and mentor other engineers.

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Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer - Decentralized Perpetual Exchange

Location: Remote - US or EU if willing to overlap 6+ hours with ET

Compensation: $180K - $300K

We are the largest decentralized perpetual exchange on a leading Ethereum Layer 2 solution, processing over $20 billion in cumulative trading volume. Our mission is to bring global markets on-chain, enabling leveraged trading of real-world assets (commodities, forex, indices, stocks) alongside crypto, all with full self-custody. Backed by top-tier investors, we are a small team scaling critical infrastructure handling billions in volume and are seeking an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer who deeply understands crypto infrastructure.

You will build and scale the high-reliability systems that power our exchange, directly impacting billions in trading volume. This role requires navigating the entire stack, from reading blockchain state and decoding oracle message signatures to building high-performance APIs and data pipelines. You will be comfortable working close to the protocol layer while owning critical infrastructure that processes thousands of trades daily.

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Protocol Lead

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Protocol Lead - Rule Enforcement for Regulated Blockchains

Location: remote - north and South America and the EU

Compensation: $180K - $220K

We are building a platform that sets the standard for how regulated blockchain applications enforce transaction rules directly at the smart contract layer. Our system empowers teams to create modular, programmable policies (like AML/CFT checks or off-chain collateral requirements) enforced with cryptographic guarantees before a transaction executes on-chain. We are seeking a Protocol Lead to own the entire smart contract suite, driving robust, scalable risk management for real-world use cases.

As the Protocol Lead, you will have full ownership of the architecture, development, and maintenance of our core smart contract suite. You will be the team's blockchain subject matter expert, defining security best practices, managing audits, and building tooling for seamless integration. This role requires a balance of hands-on coding, security leadership, and cross-ecosystem research (EVM and non-EVM).

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Principal Blockchain Engineer - Minter Systems

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Principal Engineer (Remote Outside US) - Real-World Asset Minter Infrastructure

Location: Remote - Europe or on the East Coast for South America/Canada (No US)

Compensation: $200K - $225K

We are building a critical piece of infrastructure that is the first live Minter on a major protocol. Our system transforms real-world collateral, such as U.S. Treasuries, into on-chain monetary building blocks ($M). This programmable, composable foundation allows builders to create their own application-specific digital dollars. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to take full-stack ownership of the systems that power this creation and distribution.

This role begins as a high-impact Senior Individual Contributor position with broad autonomy to define architecture and set engineering practices, designed to grow into a technical leadership role. You will work directly with leadership to execute a clear, productized system vision. Your focus will be on building the institutional-grade infrastructure that enables automated minting, multi-chain liquidity, and key integrations.

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Backend Engineer

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Backend Software Engineer - Digital Money & Global Payments

Location: New York (Hybrid)

Compensation: $150K - $200K

We are a lean and mighty team of passionate builders and veteran founders, backed by top investors in fintech and crypto. Our mission is to empower the next generation of money and financial products globally. We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join us at the cutting edge intersection of real-world payments and digital money, where you will deliver massive impact at a small, quickly growing company.

You will be a critical part of defining our technical and product roadmap, operating within an open and flat structure where you have the freedom to explore ideas and influence the company's vision. You will focus on scaling our infrastructure to handle millions of end-users globally while driving key architectural decisions for our rapidly evolving product.

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Senior Core Systems Engineer

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Senior Core Systems Engineer - Secure Wallet Infrastructure

Location: Remote - Location: US or EU (remote-first, office optional). Must be in the US, not Canada or in the European Union. France or Paris or as close as possible, always preferred.

Compensation: $180K - $260K

Join a stellar team of leaders and experts in blockchain technology, cryptography, infrastructure, and security to build the backbone of blockchain wallet infrastructure for the next financial era. We are hiring a Senior Core Systems Engineer to design, build, and scale the low-level systems at the heart of our platform, where performance, security, and correctness are non-negotiable. This is a high-impact role focused on turning advanced cryptography into fast, resilient, and trusted production infrastructure.

As a Core Systems Engineer, you will work deep in the stack, designing and scaling reliable distributed services and integrating them with cloud, hardware, and blockchain environments. You will collaborate across product, research, and security to implement advanced cryptographic and security protocols using low-level systems languages.

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Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer - Stablecoin Infrastructure

Location: Remote - Based in EST timezone

Compensation: $175K - $225K

We are a technology company building a full-service platform that transforms how money moves. Our mission is to make digital dollars the core of a new, global financial fabric—faster, more efficient, and universally accessible. We are creating foundational infrastructure that makes issuing, managing, and integrating stable, dollar-based value on-chain seamless for developers, fintechs, and institutions. We are backed by world-class investors and are growing a team to reimagine how value moves online.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to accelerate the delivery of both critical internal tooling and high-impact customer-facing products. You will join a small, high-performance team that applies the discipline of high-performance finance to a fast-moving, crypto-native startup environment.

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