Founding Platform Engineer

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 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. Get in Touch DM your github, resume and or Linkedin, and any relevant work experience, to @bobbybigyield on X.