About prePO 🔮
prePO is the decentralized trading platform for pre-public assets - pre-stocks, pre-tokens, points, and more.
Our mission is to democratize pre-public investing - transforming a world of financial exclusion into a world of permissionless access. 🌎
The Dream Team 💫
At prePO, we are building a fully-remote, globally-distributed dream team. Like a professional sports team, we want every player on the field to be a superstar in their position and play extremely effectively with others.
We are also backed by world-class investors (>$4M in funding to date), including founders from Gnosis, 1inch, Illuvium, and more!
Our Values 💝
At prePO, the following team values describe the people we want to work with (and the people you would want to work with too!):
- Passion: being engaged and enthusiastic about the work, the mission, and making an effective impact on the world.
- Autonomy: being proactive, resourceful, and making decisions in prePO’s best interest.
- Overcommunication: sharing feedback and all relevant information - directly, frequently, clearly and empathetically.
- High Performance: producing high-quality outcomes with speed and consistency, and continuously raising the bar for yourself and others.
- Focus: being laser-focused on high-priority, high-impact tasks that work us towards achieving prePO’s mission.
- Incrementalism: delivering value via incremental iterations.
- Simplicity: seeking out the simplest solutions.
- Innovation: embracing creativity, and leading the industry with forward-thinking ideas.
- Decentralization: valuing solutions which are trustless, permissionless and automated.
The Role 💻
prePO is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership over the design, development and maintenance of our backend systems.
Our backend tech stack consists of TypeScript, NestJS, Postgres, Prisma, Docker, GitHub Actions, and Viem.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Drive high-level decisions about the prePO backend architecture
- Write well-documented, performant, clean, and re-usable backend code
- Collaborate with product owners, frontend developers, and smart contract engineers
- Work at a rapid pace with a large amount of ownership and autonomy
The Ideal Candidate 🏅
Our ideal candidate will:
- Have 4+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer
- Have advanced knowledge of our backend tech stack
- Have complementary skills in devops, infra, and Solidity smart contract engineering
- have significant experience writing comprehensive backend test suites
- have a strong working knowledge of backend design patterns and security best practices
- have significant experience collaborating within an engineering team and reviewing code
- have exceptional technical communication skills (written and verbal)
- have an in-depth knowledge of economics, finance, and the financial sector
- have an in-depth and up-to-date practical knowledge of the DeFi (and broader crypto) landscape
We are committed to fostering diversity and inclusiveness within our organization, and we strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
Note that we cannot offer visa sponsorships at this time.
Benefits & Perks 🎁
- Fully-remote work with flexible working hours
- Work on the bleeding edge of DeFi and crypto
- Learn from other senior high-performing team members
- Team off-sites and sponsored conference/hackathon trips
- Budget for learning / professional development / subscriptions
- Join a force for good - prePO has made a pledge to dedicate at least 2% of time, product, and profit towards charity
We look forward to your application!
