Who is Recruiting from Scratch :
Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.
About
We’re looking for a talented Full-Stack Engineer to join us as our Head of Engineering and support the team in the build out of the MVP for our DApp Development Platform. As our Head of Engineering you will be responsible for the implementation of core functionality into our platform, spanning from the frontend user interface to the backend services, using technologies such as Electron, Node.js, and modern web frameworks. We’re looking for someone with long term vision, the ability to drive the team, make sound technical decisions, and support our engineering team.
MVP
LLVM-Compatible Code Editor: This will be the foundation of the platform. It should support syntax highlighting, code completion, and error highlighting to assist developers in writing their programs.
Build System and Runtime Environment: This will allow developers to run and test their programs. It’s crucial that this part of the platform is robust and reliable.
zkVM Integration: This is the core feature of the platform, and it’s what sets it apart from other development platforms. The zkVM should be able to generate STARK proofs for developers to verify the correctness of their programs.
Basic Project Templates: Provide a few basic project templates for common use cases to help developers get started. This can be expanded upon in the future.
One-Click Deployment: This feature will significantly streamline the development process and can serve as a major selling point for the platform. This allows developers to choose network, prover configurations and aggregation services.
About the team: past companies include firms like Delendum, Google, Microsoft, and etc. in the field, with academic backgrounds from MIT, UPenn, UChicago, and Duke. Our mission is to build the interface for next generation trustless / decentralized apps development.
Job Requirements
Experience in software architect and/or tech lead role(s)
Extensive experience with developer toolings, TypeScript, React, Node.js, MySQL, Docker, and/or Rust
Work with a web application tech stack including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MySQL, Docker, and Rust
Extend and maintain a pre-existing code base built using the aforementioned tech
Help to define, size, and implement feature requests
Check your own work, and potentially other engineers’ work, using automated testing, manual testing, and code review
Help to design and refactor the software systems
Lead a team of people performing the aforementioned duties
Favorable Qualifications
Professional experience in cryptographic or Web 3 applications
Compensation: $180-225k base + tokens + equity