About Status

Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.

With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.

As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.

As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of Apps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol, the p2p communication layer for Web3.

As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.

We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.

We are looking for an experienced JavaScript developer to join our Web team, who will take ownership of certain web-related areas at Status, including a web browser crypto wallet. Your role will include working on our crypto wallet and other other Status web assets while collaborating with colleagues across the stack (QA, other developers, ui/ux, product, etc.) to deliver great features to our users.

Our stack is built on modern foundations – a monorepo powered by TypeScript, React, Storybook, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, ESLint, Prettier, pnpm, and Turborepo. As we work in the open and are fully open-source, you can get a better idea of who we are and the work we are doing by browsing our Status Web repository. We strive to build solid foundations that will enable us to continuously make progress and provide composable and extensible solutions. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and experience working with React, TypeScript, and crypto web browser wallets.

We function as generalists, often undertaking a variety of challenges, and deeply care about the quality of our work. We look forward to collaborating with experienced individuals who can operate independently, make important decisions, and take ownership. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in European (or nearby) time zones, along with the majority of the existing team, but we welcome applications from other regions as well.

Key responsibilities:

• Building secure, robust, and well-cached APIs
• Cost-effective calling of RPC and node provider APIs
• Working with various browser storage solutions
• Integrating libraries to create, sign, and decode transactions
• Building and maintaining the new React implementation of Status’ design system
• Collaborating with other people across the teams (QA, other developers, ui/ux, product, etc.)

You ideally will have:

• Clear and effective communication skills, both verbally and written
• Thoughtful and pragmatic problem-solving
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years of experience with React
• Experience writing modern, performant, and accessible React code
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, and ideally TypeScript
• Experience with UTXOs, derivation paths, ordinals, and consolidations
• Experience with integrating hardware crypto wallets (Ledger, Trezor, QR-code crypto wallets, etc.) into a web browser wallet
• Prior experience working for an open source organisation / contributing to OS projects
• Comfortable working in (and experience of) start-up environments

Hiring process:

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

• Call with our Talent Team
• Technical interview (a Q&A tech interview)
• Live coding interview
• Interview with Design Team

Compensation:

The expected compensation range for this role is negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

About aPriori

aPriori is an MEV infrastructure and liquid staking protocol, designed for the parallel execution era and natively built on Monad. We are building the foundational infrastructure for the next era of decentralized finance, helping stakers, protocols and validators maximize yield with transparency and efficiency. Our team is composed of experts in high-performance trading, DeFi protocols, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure.

The Role

We’re looking for a strong Senior or Staff Backend Engineer passionate about solving complex problems with high-performance solutions. You will play a pivotal role in our journey from testnet to mainnet, with significant ownership in all stages from design, development, deployment, and maintenance. You’ll work closely with a highly experienced, crypto-native team to architect and implement performant backend systems.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, mission-critical backend services and APIs powering liquid staking, mev infrastructure and other foundational DeFi systems
• Work on high-performance systems that interact with blockchain networks in real-time
• Collaborate with smart contract engineers, frontend engineers, and leadership to ship end-to-end features
• Contribute to technical decisions and engineering culture across the stack, including system architecture and design patterns

What We’re Looking For

• 4-10 years of backend software engineering experience in one of the following: Golang, Rust, C/C++, Python, Java, Node.js
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs
• Experience in managing and optimizing databases like PostgreSQL to ensure data integrity, enhance performance, and achieve scalability
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong sense of ownership and a passion for driving complex technical decisions
• Ability to move fast and ship software to production with rapid iteration
• Academic background from a top-tier university and/or experience at a well-regarded technology company is a strong plus.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience in building backend systems interacting with blockchains
• Experience designing and developing liquid staking solutions, dexes and/or mev infra in production
• Knowledge of blockchain infrastructure, validator clients and p2p networking
• Deep knowledge of DeFi legos

Why Join Us

• Work at the frontier of crypto and DeFi infrastructure
• Join a tight-knit, low-ego team with deep technical chops
• Competitive compensation, bonus and token upside
• Fully remote, flexible work culture