Founding Infrastructure Engineer / Cofounder

Stacker News; Mission (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Cofounder equity

Milestone bonuses in Bitcoin

Path to full-time opportunity

Job summary

A pioneering tech company in Kansas is looking for a founding infrastructure engineer who will be instrumental in building secure and reliable systems. This part-time role offers the opportunity to shape the direction of a company focused on financial inclusion and censorship-resistant commerce. Candidates should have strong backgrounds in backend operations, secure systems, and practical integration of payment solutions. The position includes equity opportunities and milestone bonuses in Bitcoin.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend systems with uptime expectations.
• Strong knowledge of secure systems including threat modeling.
• Hands-on experience with trusted execution environments.

Responsibilities

• Designing and running core backend and infrastructure services.
• Building secure login and key management systems.
• Integrating payments with Lightning and avoiding vendor lock-in.

Skills

Backend systems operation

Secure systems management

Identity and authentication workflows

Integration of payment systems

Communicating with non-technical stakeholders

Curiosity about Nostr and Bitcoin

Go/Rust/TS/Python

Tools

Go

Rust

TypeScript/Node

Python

Job description

Conduit builds merchant and shopper tools on Bitcoin, Nostr, and open protocols so people can trade online without gatekeepers or data-mining.

We’re hiring a hands‑on founding infrastructure engineer as a true cofounder. You’ll make Conduit reliable, secure, and private by design.

What you’ll own

• Core backend & infrastructure. You’ll design and run the services that power merchant tools and consumer flows, working closely with our CTO (Acea).
• Logins and keys done right. Build and maintain secure login, key management, delegation, and recovery that's simple to use, hard to misuse.
• Secure enclaves for merchants. Deploy critical merchant tooling inside trusted execution environments (e.g., Intel SGX, AWS Nitro Enclaves) with remote verification so counterparties can trust how code runs.
• Uptime and visibility. Set clear availability goals, add meaningful logs/metrics/tracing, and keep on‑call practical. You’ll ensure our code and operations actually match our Terms and Privacy Policy.
• Payments that just work. Integrate Lightning payments via well‑supported providers and Nostr Wallet Connect–compatible services. Keep options open; avoid lock‑in.
• Safe releases. Ship changes with staged rollouts and fast rollback paths so upgrades don’t break merchant businesses.
• Security posture that grows with us. Build toward SOC 2 readiness (access control, auditability, least privilege, incident process) while staying lean.

What we’re looking for

• You’ve built and operated backend systems with real uptime expectations and learned from incidents.
• Strong track record with secure systems: isolation, secrets, key handling, and practical threat modeling.
• Hands‑on with trusted execution (SGX, Nitro, or similar) and comfortable proving what runs where.
• Solid experience with identity: auth flows, recovery, delegated actions, and sane defaults.
• You can integrate payments reliably and choose vendors pragmatically without painting us into a corner.
• You care about observability (the non‑dystopian kind), testing, and boring correctness as much as speed.
• Curiosity (or experience) with Nostr and Bitcoin and a bias for shipping.
• You communicate clearly to non‑technical stakeholders, partner well with frontend, and write things down.

Language/runtime agnostic. If you’ve shipped production services in any of Go, Rust, TypeScript/Node, or Python (and can justify your picks) we’re listening.

What we offer

• True cofounder equity (5–10%+ for the right person), standard vesting; real influence on direction.
• Milestone bonuses paid in Bitcoin for critical deliverables.
• Part‑time to start (up to ~10 hrs/week, deliverable‑based), with a clear path to full‑time after our seed.
• A chance to help set a privacy‑first standard for online commerce.

Who we are

• Team: operator who’s built from zero to seven‑figure profit, an enterprise‑scale CTO, a Bitcoin/fintech designer, and a scaler who’s taken products like Polymarket from first users to global adoption.
• Mission: We are a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to spread financial inclusion and censorship‑resistant commerce globally. We’re looking for partners who share that mission
• Funding: active seed with serious, mission‑aligned partners.

Reach out to [e-mail] with your CV and links to previous projects. Send me a NIP‑17 DM on Nostr to get to the front of the line.

Please take time to explore our site and current writings at https://conduit.market and let me know WHY this mission matters to you too. I look forward to connecting with you.