Become employee #9 for a DeFi Exchange?

When it comes to teams in the crypto space, not all are made equal. Some don’t have the right backing, because the market doesn’t want what they’re building. Others have great backing but don’t have the right execution.

This team has the right backing AND the right execution. I’ve been recruiting for crypto firms for almost 8 years and have yet to see a team backed by so many of the biggest names in the industry, with real A-players responsible for building the product.

Sure, the headcount is currently small but the backing is mighty and there are unlikely to be many opportunities giving you the chance to have this amount of impact.

“Cool, so what will I be doing?”

You’ll be employee #9 of a firm building brand new services which will be powering onchain transactions. It’s likely to be a good fit for you if you love owning and shipping new features as quickly as possible, especially if you’d like to do so using modern web technologies. This may include:

• Creating a real-time UI for use by external trading counterparties, ensuring load times that are as fast as possible
• Implementing Web3 functionality; interacting with smart contracts, and handling transactions using libraries like web3.js or ethers.js

“How do I know if I’m a good fit?”

• You’ve built high-performance UIs for real-time systems before; it’s likely you’ll have done this in the quantitative trading space
• You’re comfortable working asynchronously with remote team members
• You pride yourself on having bullet-proof Computer Science fundamentals which may or may not have come from a top school
• You know modern JavaScript frameworks inside out and have a strong track record creating dynamic and scalable UIs
• You have a demonstrable interest in working in crypto to tackle novel engineering problems