Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

As a founding team Senior Engineer, you will drive the development of products that will help thousands of Web 3 entrepreneurs start & grow their startups to millions of users.

Today, these include (1) our exclusive member platform, (2) tooling and automation for our accelerator, (3) external products to help companies hire and receive grants.

We're just getting started, however, and we expect you to have a strong voice into what Alliance will build next in partnership with our Head of Product.

In addition to the above, you will also be responsible for contributing to our internal engineering practices and standards, as well as hiring and mentoring other engineers.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

• Be responsible for developing and delivering high-impact, high-quality, well-tested, and scalable software
  
• Work on community centric Web2 and Web3 products
  
• Build sleek front end interfaces with a user-first mindset
  
• Build performant back end services
  
• Work as part of a team and mentor junior engineers
  
• Help shape our technical roadmap and share ideas for the product roadmap as we scale our services and build new products
  

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience at a venture backed startup or scale-up
  
• Recent full stack experience and comfort switching between front end / back end work
  
• Experience delivering consumer-facing products from definition to delivery
  
• Experience with software engineering best practices such as unit testing, code reviews, design, and documentation
  
• A strong understanding of building and debugging scalable web applications built with reusability in mind
  
• A solid grasp of Javascript fundamentals
  
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
  
• The ability to work effectively as part of a distributed remote team
  
• Able to balance speed and quality when building
  

Highly Desired Attributes

• Solidity experience
  
• Web3 development experience
  
• Prior early stage start up experience
  
• Knowledge or experience in Web 3 including gaming, NFTs, or tokenized communities
  
• Engineering management experience or desire to lead or manage over time
  

Technologies We Use

• Typescript
  
• React
  
• Next.js
  
• Blitz.js
  
• Node.js
  
• Prisma
  
• PostgreSQL
  

Alliance At A Glance
Alliance focuses on venture capital, incubators, accelerators, bitcoin, ethereum, cryptocurrency, and blockchains. We are a distributed team of 10-15.

As CTO, you will drive the development of products that will help thousands of Web3 entrepreneurs start and grow their startups to millions of users as well as launch our DAO. Today, our products include (1) our exclusive member platform, (2) tooling and automation for our accelerator, and (3) external products to help companies hire. We're just getting started, however, you will partner with our Head of Product to define our future roadmap to include items such as DAO governance and other tooling. In addition to the above, you will also be responsible for our internal engineering practices and standards, as well as building and growing our engineering team.

Key Outcomes

• Working closely with our Head of Product, design and execute a focused technical roadmap
  
• Build and maintain our existing technical products
  
• Lead and support the organization's security efforts
  
• Hire and manage a world-class Web3 engineering team
  
• Host technical office hours for accelerator startups and serve as a technical mentor
  
• Develop a vision for building a technical pillar to support founders with security requirements and audits, scaling, and hiring engineering teams
  

Requirements

• Former technical founder or CTO of a successful Web2 or Web3 company
  
• 5+ years of software engineering experience including engineering management or leadership experience
  
• Experience with software engineering best practices such as unit testing, code reviews, design, and documentation
  
• Recent full stack experience and comfort switching between front and back end work
  
• A solid grasp of Javascript fundamentals
  
• Exceptional team management skills
  
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  
• The ability to lead a distributed remote team
  
• Desire to code (as an early technical lead you will need to juggle between coding and building and leading your team and function)
  

Highly Desired Attributes

• Have built or led development of smart-contract-based Web3 products (Solidity or Rust)
  
• Access to a strong network of technical talent

Alliance At A Glance
Alliance focuses on venture capital, incubators, accelerators, bitcoin, ethereum, cryptocurrency, and blockchains. We are a distributed team of 10-15.

What We Offer
🤩 Work with world-class Web3 founders, investors, and other industry leaders and be exposed to the most exciting projects working at the cutting edge of Web3
🤝 Join a growing team with a strong reputation, investment portfolio, and Accelerator business led by experienced entrepreneurs who have founded some of the leading companies in the crypto space
💰 Competitive salary
📈 Competitive equity/token compensation
🏝 Unlimited vacation policy
🦷 Medical, dental, and vision
🏡 A remote work environment with an international and diverse team

About Alliance DAO
Alliance is the leading Web3 accelerator and founder community. Since early 2020, we've helped the top 1% of Web3 founders start and grow their companies. We do so through a 9-week program led by leading experts. Our community includes fellow founders, lawyers, auditors, market makers and more. Together, we will grow Web3 to one billion users by 2025.

Origin Story
In March of 2020, top-tier trading and venture firms CMT Digital, Cumberland DRW, Jump Capital and Volt Capital joined to form the DeFi Alliance, an accelerator program to help early stage DeFi startups source liquidity. We accelerated more than 90 startups with the support from more than 200 entities in our support network. In January of 2020, DeFi Alliance and hundreds of other top builders joined forces to form Alliance DAO, the world's first digital startup nation, to accelerate the best Web3 startups.

Products
Web3 Accelerator Program. A 9-week program featuring talks from leading experts, hands-on mentorship, demo days and more to help build your project and community.
Alliance DAO Network (ADN). A community of stakeholders in the Web3 startup ecosystem. Our members include fellow founders, lawyers, auditors, market makers and many more. Our community is supported by various online products such as a founder’s forum, web app, jobs board and governance tools.