Job description
About Arcade
We're the team behind PRJX, the #1 DEX on HyperEVM, which generated $5.4M revenue in year one with 2 full time people.
Now, we're pursuing the biggest opportunity in crypto.
The foundation of which is creating the best place to trade crypto (spot + perps) on your phone.
On top of that, we’re building a completely original social product with several novel mechanisms.
We’ll reveal more to promising candidates, but whatever you think it may be, think bigger.
Role
Staff+ level · $200,000+ · significant equity
Stack. TypeScript/Node · Express 5 · Postgres with Drizzle · pnpm monorepo · Awilix · Vitest · AWS (SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) · Solana via @solana/kit · market data via Alchemy, Mobula, etc . Rust and Go are a plus.
Details. Remote · NA/EU timezone ideal · Full-time · Primarily async
You're the first and only engineer in your domain. Your job is to take an original product vision and turn it into a robust system, holding the entire architecture and smallest details at once.
You will…
- Build the best trading system in crypto.
- Own the entire trading infrastructure.
- Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
- Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
- Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
- Scale the system to $100M daily volume.
You have…
- Owned the system of record for customer funds across ledger, settlement, and matching.
- Defined a financial system's consistency guarantees and operating limits.
- Migrated live financial data with zero downtime and zero loss.
- Operated a high-throughput system under adversarial conditions.
- Been the final authority and the last escalation.
Nice to have
- Experience with Rust and Go is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Build the best trading system in crypto.
- Own the entire trading infrastructure.
- Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
- Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
- Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
- Scale the system to $100M daily volume.
Focus areas
- crypto
- fintech
Required skills
- JavaScript & TypeScript(must have)
Develop and maintain applications using TypeScript in a Node.js environment.
- Node.js(must have)
Build server-side applications and services using Node.js.
- PostgreSQL(must have)
Design and manage databases using PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and performance.
- AWS(must have)
Utilize AWS services such as SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, and S3 for application deployment and management.
- API Integration(must have)
Design and implement APIs to facilitate communication between different services.
- Rust(nice to have)
Contribute to projects using Rust for performance-critical components.
- Go(nice to have)
Develop applications or services using Go, particularly for concurrent processing.