Founding Software Engineer

HackQuest; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HackQuest is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to develop a social trading exchange for crypto. The ideal candidate will have extensive backend and infrastructure experience, particularly within the Solana ecosystem, focusing on creating a scalable and reliable platform. This role offers a competitive salary and growth opportunities within a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity package

Generous vacation and time-off policy

Opportunities for personal and professional growth

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend development and infrastructure engineering.
• Strong understanding of blockchain technology, particularly Solana.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (GCP, AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the CEO to support the vision and mission.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend infrastructure.
• Identify bottlenecks and optimize performance of services.

Skills

Backend development

Blockchain technology

Cloud computing

Containerization technologies

Database technologies

Job description

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:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development and infrastructure engineering
• Strong understanding of blockchain technology, particularly the Solana ecosystem
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (GCP, AWS) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, Cloud Firestore)
• 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.