Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Payy is building global consumer banking on crypto rails, with a self-custodial app and a decentralized ZK rollup for payments. The Hacker / Ex-Founder Engineer will build and lead end-to-end product features primarily in Rust, while contributing to React frontend work and shaping technical and product decisions.
Responsibilities
- Ability to lead the development of features from architecture design to development to release
- Willing to work on features end to end (most of the code will be Rust, but there is a small amount of frontend in React)
- You want to be an active part of decision making and be given time to work on your ideas
Skills
- A hacker, you can build almost anything
- You've launched your own product or founded a company previously in a technical role
- Strong development experience building from zero to one - ideally in Rust (but will consider other languages if you're a proven quick learner):
- You know what code quality Rust code looks like and how to write it
- You know how to architect Rust code
- You have experience working in large and complex Rust code bases
- You understand how to use AI effectively to accelerate learning and development
- Ability to lead the development of features from architecture design to development to release
- Willing to work on features end to end (most of the code will be Rust, but there is a small amount of frontend in React)
- You work fast, but have strong attention to detail
- You understand key web3 primitives, such as as wallets and cryptographic primitives (public key, asymmetric encryption, symmetric encryption)
- You have a product mindset, you care deeply about making great user experiences and consider how your code will impact users
- You love solving really hard problems and want to work on something meaningful and challenging
- You work best with autonomy, you want to be left alone to get on with it (we have only one meeting a week)
- You want be an active part of decision making and be given time to work on your ideas
- You want to get in early with a start up to convert your hard work into maximum equity / upside
- You are proactive and have read the Polybase whitepaper and downloaded our app
Benefits
- Maximum equity / upside for getting in early with a startup
- Autonomy with only one meeting a week
- Time to work on your ideas
- An active part in decision making
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