Founding Software Engineer
Pocket Protector
Software Engineering
Posted on Nov 19, 2024
Founding Software Engineer
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:
3+ years of experience in backend development and infrastructure engineering
Strong understanding of blockchain technology, particularly the Solana ecosystem
Proficient in programming languages, specifically Javascript, Node.js experience preferred
Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, Cloud Firestore)
Experience with cloud computing platforms (GCP, AWS)
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.