Full-Stack Engineer

Convexity Labs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Convexity Labs in New York, NY is seeking a seasoned Full-Stack Engineer who cares about user experience and scalable systems to advance Plaza and related tooling. You will ship end-to-end features, own critical components, and contribute to architectural decisions with the founders.

We're building a collaborative, in-person culture in NYC and are open to strong remote candidates within 6 timezones of NYC. If you thrive on tough problems, blockchain, and fast iteration, join us.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Significant experience with React and NodeJS.
• Experience with AWS and GCP.
• Experience with interacting with blockchains.
• Professional or native English language proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Scale and improve the resiliency of in-house blockchain indexer and backend API.
• Architect and build frontend and backend features from scratch.
• Mentor more junior engineers and help them level-up.
• Collaborate with the founder of Convexity Labs to make strategic product and go-to-market decisions.

Skills

React

NodeJS

AWS

GCP

Blockchain

Web3

English proficiency

Tools

TypeScript

Job description

We are a group of curious and ambitious builders on a mission to make the global financial system more fair, transparent, and performant. We believe blockchains are the answer. We are the core contributors behind the first layer-1 blockchain for programmable derivatives, Plaza (coming soon) – any tokenized asset on any chain can be transformed into a perfectly tailored risk-reward profile without sacrificing liquidity. We are a venture-backed company based in NYC, and we’re looking to build out our core team. We are focused on hiring the core team and senior talent to work together in person in NYC to build a collaborative and supportive culture. We’re open to hiring best-in-class remote talent anywhere within 6 hours of the NYC timezone.

Core team member responsibilities

• Work to solve hard technical problems at the cutting edge of blockchain research alongside the founders
• Be empowered to make bold technical and strategic decisions
• Play a critical role in determining the people we hire, our culture, our engineering practices, and the products we ship.

How we work

• We value ambition, work ethic, and trajectory over prestige and accomplishments
• We value thoughtful and contentious dialogue over siloed and unilateral decision-making
• We value acknowledging uncertainty/weakness and seeking support over unabated confidence and solo performances
• We’re obsessive about learning, doing right by people, and shipping as fast as possible

We’re looking for a Full-Stack Engineer who is obsessed with both user experience and building scalable systems end-to-end with high uptime requirements, to help take Plaza to the next level. We want to work with someone who takes pride in code quality, system performance, and user experience.

Role

• Scale and improve the resiliency of in-house blockchain indexer and backend API.
• Architect and build frontend and backend features from scratch.
• Mentor more junior engineers and help them level-up.
• Collaborate with the founder of Convexity Labs to make strategic product and go-to-market decisions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Significant experience with React and NodeJS
• Experience with AWS and GPC
• Experience with interacting with blockchains
• Able to deliver products from scratch to production
• Up to date with best practices in software engineering and Web3
• Professional or native English language proficiency

Bonus

• Prior experience building or maintain a blockchain indexer or API
• Experience building blockchain-based applications end to endExperience managing cloud infrastructure

Compensation

Compensation depends on experience and location

Responsibilities

• Work to solve hard technical problems at the cutting edge of blockchain research alongside the founders
• Be empowered to make bold technical and strategic decisions
• Play a critical role in determining the people we hire, our culture, our engineering practices, and the products we ship.

Requirements

• 3+ years of commercial experience
• English (intermediate)

Tech stack

• Blockchain
• TypeScript
• React
• DeFi
• Node.js