Software Engineer - Security & Infrastructure
para usaMillbrae (CA)
Software Engineer - Security & Infrastructure
Posted yesterday
para usaMillbrae (CA)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Core Team Founding Engineer As a founding engineer on the core team, you will have significant ownership across the tech stack and a key voice in early decisions. This is an opportunity to get significant equity, significant responsibility, and ultimately launch Para's main product & drive the mission and business forward. This role is in-person, and based in SF/Bay Area or NYC.
In this role, you will:
- Build secure and resilient infrastructure from the ground upReview code across the entire stack and engineering organization while actively participating in developing Para's recovery product
- Influence the product roadmap and direction
- Help scale the product & team
- You have:5+ years of full stack engineering experience where you've made significant product-critical contributions
- Experience working with highly scalable and secure systems, preferably in the blockchain space
Strong intuition for Systems Design; familiarity with complex systems and balancing both nimble iteration required at early stage as well as intuition on scale.
Built 0?1 products in the past, preferably in startup environments
A deep product sense and strong intuition for end-user experience and business value
A strong interest in shaping the blockchain and cryptography space & familiarity using crypto-powered products (exchanges, wallets, DEXs, etc)
Experience working with Typescript, Go, and AWSA desire to work at a very early stage startup (and understanding of the upsides as well as responsibilities that come with a role of this nature)
Nice to have:
Prior blockchain and/or applied cryptography experience, particularly with MPC-based systems Prior engineering leadership experience
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