About us

Ambush is an AI studio focused on building consumer products that traders & defi users love. Our team is a blend of AI researchers & software engineers, allowing us to train & finetune our own LLMs and use them to power AI products with strong technical moats.

We’re a lean & hyper-performance oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we share a strong desire to solve Web 3’s hardest problems by building novel products that are difficult to replicate.

Our team is crypto-native, & led by one of the industry’s biggest voices: Psycho.

About this role

You’ll help build sleek consumer web-apps for our upcoming AI DeFi products. The ideal candidate has a strong eye for design & intuitive UX, while being deeply familiar with DeFi as a native user themselves. This role will be 70% frontend & 30% backend, so a design-savvy candidate is a must.

Requirements:

• Prior success taking a consumer web-app from 0 to 1
• Minimum 3+ years commercial experience as a Web Developer
• Web Stack: Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Next.js (React), Node.js (backend)
• CSS Stack: Tailwind, Bootstrap and similar libs
• Animations tools: Framer Motion, React Spring and similar
• Dep Management: Webpack, Yarn, npm, and similar
• Familiarity with FE related AWS services: S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, etc
• Strong understanding and experience working with Websockets
• Experience with relational databases, Postgres/MySQL

Why work with Ambush

• Every hire gets profit share + equity + competitive salary
• Lean & high impact team. We hate bureaucracy & will never grow past 10-15 people
• One of the fastest growing AI products in crypto. Profitable in just 30 days
• Proven leadership team with several acquisitions under their belt

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

Job Responsibilities

• Develop smart contracts according to business needs
• Responsible for compilation and deployment of smart contracts
• Optimization and improve architecture, security, performance, algorithms, etc. of the smart contracts
• Maintain relevant technical documentation
• Keep studying trends and direction of blockchain technology

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or above, over 5 years of software development working experience
• Proficiency in programming language solidity or go, and related project experience on Ethereum
• Familiar with Lido, SSV will be a plus
• Familiar with the code implementation of leading blue-chip DeFi protocols and LSD/LSDFi protocols will be a plus
• Good communication and teamwork skills, strong logical thinking ability
• Fluent in Chinese，in English will be a plus

• We respect your time: here is no micromanagement or screen trackers.
• You can earn with us $4k - $7.5k monthly - the rate depends on your skills and experience. We've already paid out over $10M to our engineers.
• You will enjoy your work - it’s possible to communicate async and choose a schedule that works best for you.
• You will communicate directly with the clients. Most of them have technical backgrounds. Sounds good, yeah?
• We will support you from the time when the application will be started during all our cooperation.
• No more hunting for clients or negotiating rates - let us handle the business side of things so you can focus on what you do best.
• We'll manually find you the best project according to your skills and preferences.
• You will work at the fast-paced startup environment that will keep you motivated and engaged.
• We will connect you with the best developers in the world through our community.

• Senior Software Developer
• Senior+ Software Developer

• Proficiency with PHP/Laravel (2+ years of exp)
• Strong experience with React (2+ years of exp)
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB).
• Proficiency in developing both GraphQL and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud computing (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience with other PHP frameworks such as Symfony, Yii, or CodeIgniter would be a plus
• Familiarity with deployment workflows, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, and containerization tools like Docker is a plus.
• Good command of English, both written and spoken, as you’ll be communicating with clients directly
• Strong organizational skills — ability to work full-time remotely with no supervision
• Responsibility — we want to trust you
• Soft skills — we value clear and effective communication, at the same time, don't force you to become a public speaker

• VideoAsk (about 10 minutes)
• Completing your me.lemon profile
• 30 minutes Screening call with our Recruiters
• Technical Interview with our Developers
• Feedback
• Magic Box (we are looking for best project for you)