Shadow is hiring a
Founding Engineer - Full Stack

Summary

The job is for a founding full stack engineer at Shadow, a crypto data platform startup based in NYC. The role involves building user-facing products, owning the product, shipping new features, and working with Rust, Kubernetes, Kafka, BigTable, Postgres, Snowflake/BigQuery, TypeScript, Next.js, Solidity, and Vyper.

Requirements

• You're an ambitious senior or staff-level IC that has built technically oriented or data-rich user-facing applications
• Design sensibility.. While you’ll be working with very talented designers, we expect you to have a knack for great UX. If you feel something in the product is off, you go and fix it without asking for permission
• Interest in onchain data and data analysis.. You’ve spent way too much time on Etherscan, Dune, and other onchain data applications. You understand what they do well, where they fall short, and why that is
• Curious and quick learning.. We don't expect you to have experience in every technology we use, but to learn and be productive quickly. We value people who can quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains
• Pragmatic attention to detail.. You hold your work to a high standard. You strive for few slips in code, clean Git hygiene, and clear written communication — all while remaining low-ego and solution oriented
• Good heart.. We are a group of friendly ambitious nerds who are effortlessly kind to one another, and we don't tolerate jerks

Responsibilities

• Own the product
• Ship, ship, ship.. Launch new user-facing products and features that build on top of Shadow’s infrastructure to 10x the experience of interacting with onchain data
• Act on strongly held devex opinions: We are building a technical product for a technical audience, and you’ll get to build the thing you always wanted to use yourself

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and equity
• Great healthcare. — gold-tier company healthcare plans. We cover 99% of medical, dental, vision premiums for employees, and 50% for dependents
• 401k. — flexible 401k retirement plan with contribution matching
• In-person culture. — we work out of a beautiful office in Soho New York with other early-stage crypto teams, and have a culture of coming in 5 days a week as a default
• Hardware setup. — we’ll buy whatever you need to be productive