DeFi Recruitment has partnered with a project that has been incubated by one of the clear leaders in web3, with over $XX bn in collateral. The firm is developing a cutting edge project, building the world’s first fully verifiable, cost-efficient, scalable, and decentralised oracle.

The firm in question has a stellar track record in the Web3 space and is looking to establish this new organisation as a leader in the oracle space, servicing businesses across all blockchains, recognized for a gold standard of verifiability, scalability, transparency, accessibility, resilience, and security.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join their team, playing a crucial role in the planning, coordination and implementation of product development and processes. The successful candidate will be the co-pilot of the project roadmap, ensuring engineers stay aligned, remove blockers and execute effectively. 

Responsibilities include:

Strategic Facilitator

• Evaluate tradeoffs of technical decisions and determine the best path forward
• Foster a collaborative, meritocratic, and inclusive environment, encouraging open dialogue and constructive feedback 
• Identify key topics and mediate technical discussions within the engineering team

Agile Scrum Master

• Assume Scrum Master responsibilities. Moderate Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, and Sprint Review.
• Deconstruct project deliverables into stories and track them in our project tracking software (Shortcut).
• Collaborate with the engineering team to translate product requirements into engineering solutions.
• Coordinate the engineering team to deliver projects, ensuring the execution of the product roadmap and vision.

Process Optimisation Champion

• Define and own the engineering workflow process end-to-end. You will determine how the engineering team can most effectively deliver on its roadmap. Define the ‘definition of done’ (implementation, tests, documentations, deployment).
• Establish, own and refine common engineering and delivery processes to ensure quality of delivery, speed of execution, and risk mitigation. Common processes include onboarding new blockchains, onboarding new assets, and onboarding new Feed validators.

Engineering Advocate

• Act as the primary point of contact between the engineering team and founder providing regular updates on the status of projects.
• Work with other stakeholders to define the product roadmap.
• Communicate staffing requirements to successfully execute on the product roadmap.

Requirements

• Strong technical background with 5+ years of project management experience with a minimum of 1 years experience in the web3, crypto, or blockchain industry
• Experience partnering with deeply technical engineering teams to drive execution of product roadmaps in a fast moving business environment
• Familiarity working in a startup environment or scaleup environment with a ‘get it done’ attitude 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams dynamic environment
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Based in European time zone

What’s on offer

• An opportunity to work with veterans in the crypto space building on the bleeding edge of technology
• Highly competitive compensation (USD / EUR / DAI)
• 6 weeks annual leave
• Flexible working schedule
• Multiple offsites to meet the team
• 100% remote environment

Our client is a well backed crypto scale-up based in the US with bases in NYC, SF, and Miami. They are backed by some blue-chip VC’s including: Infinity Ventures, MoonHoldings, Perpetual Venture Partners, as well as Miko Matsamura.

This venture is pioneering the first cross dApp liquid staking through the creation of a new financial vehicle. This new synthetic stakes across an index of token economies according to a fixed and transparent on- chain investment strategy. Market participants can maximize time-locks and reward rates while maintaining the flexibility to exit positions through a dedicated AMM pool.

What You’ll Do

• Lead architecting and implementation of the synthetic staking product
• Design and implement periphery contracts
• Own contract security design and review as well as security guidance documentation
• Build systems at scale to prevent classes of vulnerabilities
• Monitor engineers, and collaborate with designers, product managers to turn requirements into products.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building and releasing production grade Solidity contracts
• 8+ years of technical experience, degree in math or computer science
• Strong understanding of the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine), L2s, and the DeFi/Web3 ecosystem
• Prior experience deploying complex smart contract systems to the Ethereum mainnet
• Experience implementing complex math in Solidity
• Experience with React, and Node.js and other frontend technologies
• Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services
• Native to advanced English competency

Bonus

• Experiences with financial services or crypto trading systems.
• Passion for video games, data, and/or economics
• Backend experience, previous startup experience

Compensation/Benefits

• Industry leading salary plus hefty token and equity allocation
• Remote, requiring a minimum of 4hr time overlap with EST
• Full company paid health and dental benefits
• Offices in SF, NYC and Miami

This venture is poised for success and they’re looking for someone to be a part of this very successful journey. This is a position that rarely comes around with great comp and high equity and token allocation on offer.

DeFi Recruitment has partnered with a cutting-edge systematic trading firm with a global presence. Currently, we are assisting with the buildout of their crypto quantitative research and development teams based out of New York. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a firm with a stellar track record at delivering huge profits across a variety of asset classes while also having the opportunity to shape the future of their digital assets team.

You will join a team which builds strategic solutions for research and live trading of quantitative strategies. This is a unique opportunity to grow your career with the team while building the next generation of research and quant trading systems.

Responsibilities:

• Building a robust, scalable research infrastructure, including alpha estimation and risk modelling components
• Developing a seamless platform to handle all aspects of quantitative trading
• Building high-performance and low-latency modular systems
• Developing robust data checking, transformation and storage procedures
• Building visualization tools and monitors for market/trade/position/risk
• Maintaining and troubleshooting of trading systems

Requirements:

• Previous experience with Digital Assets and Finance
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience in a collaborative environment
• Understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns and data structures
• Experience with the software delivery lifecycle and writing production-quality code
• Fluency in Python (and its ecosystem) for data analytics and research
• Familiarity with C++
• Experience working with SQL and historical time series data

Contact us or apply for more information!

DeFi Recruitment is looking for two Senior Full-Stack Developers to join a well backed web3 venture in London! Our client is creating a new web3 experience for collectors and creators. Their aim is to be the one-stop-shop for NFT’s – they have big ambitions, lots of funding, and an entrepreneurial team to make this vision a reality.
 
This isn’t a typical job – we are seeking driven individuals with a hunger for product ownership and impact. You’ll be working on solving challenging problems revolving around the use of Web3 technology into a code-free platform.
 
Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of engineering solutions from beginning to end, bridging the gap between product and blockchain by directly working alongside our suite of talented engineers – bringing ideas to life
• Opportunities for rapid growth and progress as an early joiner in the team, being at the forefront of key decision making
• Build highly scalable and secure infrastructure, leveraging tools like Docker, Kubernetes and AWS to solve the most interesting of technical challenges.
• Ability to work across a wide range of areas ranging as an opportunity for career development, in anything from smart contract integration on our platform to scaling of our back-end as we continue to grow
• Helping to nurture engineers through mentoring and education
• Work using a wide suite of languages across our whole stack, from front-end to back-end: React, Next, Node.js, Nest.js, Typescript, CSS, (+ Solidity if you want to explore Blockchain-specific solutions!)
• Oversee and lead an extremely talented team of engineers

 
Required Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in building front-end solutions in React/Next and CSS, with a firm grasp on deploying a user-driven UI
• 6+ years of experience in building back-end solutions in Node.js, Nest.js with Typescript, and a good intuition or proven track-record in building scalable solutions
• 6+ years of managing a team in a similar role
• Competence in react-native (Preferred)
• Above all, passion to work as part of a fast-growing team with ambitious goals for constant innovation and development

 
Perks & Benefits

• Competitive cash comp + (vested) equity incentives
• Private medical insurance
• Company merch
• Hybrid working arrangement + free lunch in the office
• Paid parental leave to biological or adoptive parents
• Competitive annual leave and pension contributions

 
For more information apply or contact us! info@defirec.com