As a Founding Backend Engineer, you'll build frameworks for information exchange, blockchain verification, and customer processing using AI, while fostering early company culture.
🚀 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 changing how blockchain and crypto companies interact and engage with their audience. Through us, you will have more success in launching, managing, and rewarding your crypto communities and ecosystems. Born out of a hackathon a year ago, we're already processing data for millions and powering campaign launches for customers like Coinbase!
✋ About the Role:
As a Founding Backend 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 build frameworks 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 frontend software engineering experience preferably with experience in VC backed startups
- Experience with API-based backends (e.g., REST, GQL)
- Bonus if you have worked with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Next.js).
- 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
❤️ Benefits
- Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible time off
- Early stage equity
- Annual team travel opportunities to conferences internationally
Top Skills
AI
Angular
APIs
Blockchain
Gql
Next.Js
React
Rest
Vue
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