Lead Engineer / Manager - Currency / Smart Contract Engineering - Hypergrowth Consumer Fintech Startup

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Lead Engineer / Manager - Currency / Smart Contract Engineering - Hypergrowth Consumer Fintech Startup

Location: Remote

The company's team includes some of the biggest names in the fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrency realm. The founding team includes payments domain experts, the Cofounder of a highly valued cryptocurrency, world-class cryptography theorists, and well-known cryptocurrency investors. One of the founders has founded 2 companies that are valued at over $1 billion, including a rapidly growing fintech unicorn that was recently valued at over $10 billion dollars.

The company's product is in the realms of consumer fintech, web and mobile, payments, blockchain and cryptocurrency. The company has raised about $80 million in funding. They are backed by some of the top investors in the space, as well as the founder of a tech company that is valued at over $50 billion.

The company has about 62 employees and 15 engineers (both are about double what they were 1 year ago). The company plans to hire 20-30 engineers in the next 18 months.

In addition to competitive salary (up to $250k), the company is offering equity and cryptocurrency which could be very lucrative.

Job Responsibilities:

- You would be spending about 50% of your time on management (leading 7-8 engineers) and 50% as an individual contributor.

- Leading the team of internal dev/product/research contributors, as well as contributing code and design yourself.

- Making key contributions to making the company's currency system one of the most influential codebases in crypto/DeFi.

- Managing currency engineers and developing their talent.

- Managing the team’s work planning process; balancing team project planning with community contributor work.

- Advising and influencing system architecture and design decisions.

- Contributing to R&D for future v2 upgrades, likely involving L2/rollup/appchain concepts; implementing early PoCs to further this R&D.

- Working regularly with security auditors and external contributors to document and upgrade the currency code.

- Support and maintain an active test economy, as well as integrations with partner protocols.

- Act as a primary contributor to the product's tech community, evaluating and implementing upgrade proposals.

- Ensuring that the product's smart contracts remain state of the art by evaluating new DeFi protocols, Layer 1 and Layer 2 mechanisms, EIPs, etc.

Qualifications:

- Expertise in Solidity and Smart Contract engineering.

- Experience as a tech lead or engineering manager.

- Deep awareness and knowledge of Ethereum development frameworks and patterns.

- Understanding of blockchain architecture.

- Emphasis on team performance and developing other engineers.

Nice to have:

- Strong track record of open source contributions.

- JavaScript.

- Understanding of basic cryptography concepts (theory and applied).

- Knowledge of Layer 2 blockchain scalability technology.

- Knowledge of blockchain privacy/confidential transaction schemes.

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