About this role
Our awesome team is made of an economist and product hacker. We need someone to put some sense into us and drive the technological development of our product. - our Chief Economist has a Phd in Economics from Bocconi University, has studied at Hardvard, London School of Economics and in China. He teaches at the most exclusive college in Italy and worked in the VC fund started by Google Italy's ex Country Manager. He is now at Singularity University. - our Chief Hustler is a hacker, noise maker and community builder. He has been developing web products for years. On top of that he advises and invests in companies, organizes hackatons, works with the best angels and mentors in the world and writes for well know startup blogs. Responsibilities: Define, design and build secure, reliable, large-scale, high-transaction and high-performance application architecture, database and services. Develop back-end of first MVP with OSS and your preferred stack Define, design and implement internal and consumer facing APIs Build the engineering team from scratch Change the world and help build the economic and monetary layer on the internet Requirements: Be interesting Be an outstanding hacker Be willing to make this a major part of your life for > 4 years Be willing to move to the Bay Area Preferred: You can build our office in Javascript You can develop an API to control the world You can manage nuclear-war risk with software Anything lower than 1 billion transactions per second is negligible to you You are a cryptogeek You want to call your kids Erlang and Cassandra Perks: Huge equity share. An awesome founding team. The chance to change the world and get incredibly rich doing so. Please list your github account and any product you helped develop in your resume.