As a Founding Engineer, you will shape product development, facilitate information exchange, verify blockchain data, and integrate AI to enhance customer interactions, all while collaborating closely with clients and iterating on sophisticated workflows.
🚀 We're DeForm:
With $4.6M in backing by Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Steve Jang of Kindred Ventures, and more, DeForm is an early stage startup powering GTM strategies for web3 companies like Coinbase! Through us, you'll have more success in launching, managing, and rewarding your crypto communities and ecosystems.
✋ About the Role:
As a Founding Engineer at DeForm, you're not only a teammate, you are an early hire that will set the tone for both the business and culture. You'll craft experiences that:
- facilitate foundational information exchange between consumers and businesses
- verify blockchain information with a given onchain identity
- accelerate customer information processing with the use of AI
- enable anyone to distribute crypto-native assets without technical know-how
What we can promise you is that this will be an unforgettable adventure – so if you're excited to co-create the future of marketing and community with us, keep on reading. 🙌
🔍 Who we're looking for:
- 4+ years of fullstack software engineering experience preferably with experience in VC backed startups
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Next.js) AND/OR API-based backends (e.g., REST, GQL).
- Enjoys shipping products/features end to end and able to prototype and iterate quickly around sophisticated user workflows
- Strong technical communication skills and able to distill complex information to non-technical audiences
- Enjoys working closely with customers through various communication channels to gather requirements
- Passionate about leading their own designs and development
- Must be able to commute to the office in San Francisco by the Giants ballpark
🙌 Features that you may build:
- Viral waitlist gamification protocols
- Scalable infrastructure for virtual waiting rooms
- Autogenerate a form with AI / GPT
- Minting NFTs and/or tokens after a form response
- Onchain workflows & automations - the first-ever IFTTT tool with native onchain actions
- Integrations with many other SaaS tools (Hubspot, Salesforce, Sendgrid, etc)
- In-app native table experience with onchain data analytics (imagine Airtable but you can easily add columns that pull onchain data)
- In-app user & customer directory (web3 CRM)
- SOC2 & GDPR compliance for our enterprise users
🍄 Bonus:
- You're captivated by the transformative potential of web3 and crypto technologies, maybe even a seasoned explorer of this digital frontier.
- You’re familiar with crypto through opening your own wallet, minting an NFT, etc.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to see what building a business from the ground up is like
- Sizeable early stage equity!
❤️ Benefits
- Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible time off
- Early stage equity
- Annual team travel opportunities to conferences internationally
Top Skills
AI
Angular
Gpt
GraphQL
Next.Js
Nfts
React
Rest
SaaS
Vue
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