About this role
Arcade
Role
Staff+ level · 200,000+ · significant equity
Current stack. TypeScript/Node · Express 5 · Postgres with Drizzle · pnpm monorepo · Awilix · Vitest · AWS (SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) · Solana via @solana/kit · viem. You'll have the authority to rewrite what doesn't meet the bar.
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.
This is a role for top 1% devs. You'd trust yourself to architect this from zero to $100M/day in two months, and fix critical prod bugs at that scale the hour they land.
You will…
- Own the platform: data layer, rewards, notifications, the API surface, and its reliability.
- Integrate the trading engine: perps through Hyperliquid, spot through Jupiter and Relay.
- Turn providers that disagree (Zerion, CoinGecko, Mobula, Alchemy, Hyperliquid) into one source of truth.
- Serve heavy data fast: caching that survives a stampede, fan-out that holds.
- Make one USDC balance across chains invisible to the user.
- Hold the line at peak: apps in this category lag and crash; ours can't, and a user can always close a position.
You have…
- Kept a system alive through a 50x spike in ten minutes, and decided in advance what to shed.
- Built rewards and accounting that survive retries: idempotency, replay safety, lot tracking.
- Accounted for a latency budget end to end: tap to on screen.
- Fixed Postgres bottlenecks in Postgres, not with a second database.
- Deep in a typed backend language (TypeScript, Go, or Rust), and productive in a codebase that isn't yours; EVM at read level.
Arcade
Location: Remote, OR, USA
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Benefits: Async, Pay In Crypto
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