About us
We are a group of product managers and developers from companies such as Amazon.com and Twitter. firefly is the leading native DEX on Manta Pacific (and $800M TVL L2).
About the Role
We’re looking for a full-stack engineer to lead our development & maintenance of our DEX platform, as well as help in related areas such as: subgraphs, routing API, corporate site.
You might enjoy working here if you’re looking for…
- Small remote-first team. You’ll be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and technical practices.
- A+ colleagues. Our leadership team includes alumni from Amazon.com and Twitter.
- Competitive compensation
- An exciting opportunity to play a key role in a start-up; your input will be crucial in building the dev team.
What we’re looking for…
- Development Experience: Prior experience building frontend and backend solutions in crypto-native projects deployed on an EVM mainnet.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years as a full stack developer. Extensive experience in Typescript and React is required; experience in Solidity, Python or bash is a plus.
- Communication: strong written and oral communication skills.
- Familiarity with blockchain fundamentals, the EVM, and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.
- Leadership: you will be managing and coordinating the work of other engineers and contractors.
- Product-minded: in a startup, we expect our Lead Eng. to play a constructive role in defining the product and ensuring requirements are complete
- Passion for Crypto: whether it’s building, investing, yield farming, minting, voting, or other activities, your enthusiasm for the crypto space is evident.
- Mindset: a proactive, can-do attitude, ready to tackle challenges head-on in a startup environment.
People who do well here tend to…
- Plan, architect, write, test, and comment their code well
- Be able to clearly explain the designs they implement
- Respond to (and act on) feedback during code review
- Participate as part of the team
- Work well against deadlines
- Communicate in both written and spoken forms