Staff Engineer

MetaDAO

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems with documented code
  • 3+ years of experience with Unix systems
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure
  • Experience using AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor
  • Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on business context
  • Demonstrated willingness to dive into unfamiliar areas with a team-first attitude
  • Proven intellectual curiosity

Responsibilities

  • Build, test, and maintain production services using TypeScript, Next.js, and Postgres
  • Implement and modify high-volume smart contracts
  • Drive engineering initiatives from inception to completion, including specification and architecture
  • Conduct testing, monitoring, and maintenance of services
  • Engage in real-time data indexing at scale

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Exposure to innovative technologies
  • Potential for hands-on involvement in high-impact projects
Full Job Description
The Role

As staff engineer, you would:
  • Build, test, and maintain production services. Our current stack uses TypeScript, Next.js, and Postgres.
  • Implement, integrate, and modify smart contracts that experience hundreds of millions of dollars of volume.
  • Drive ambitious engineering initiatives (for example, realtime data indexing at scale) from inception to completion: specification, architecture, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.


Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems, with high-quality and well-documented production code
  • 3+ years of experience with Unix systems
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor
  • Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on relevant business context
  • Demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
  • Demonstrated intellectual curiosity


Preferred
  • Experience working for venture-funded startups
  • Knowledge of capital markets, acquired either through working in finance or trading stocks and/or crypto personally
  • Proficiency in Next.js and TypeScript

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