Director of Engineering, Argent
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The most simple and secure crypto wallet
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The most simple and secure crypto wallet
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Plus equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Argent's mission is to empower everyone to control and prosper from their digital assets and identity.
Role
Who you are
- Lead our engineering organisation into delivering high-quality, scalable, software products fulfilling our strategic product objectives
- Manage our engineering leads, providing mentorship and coaching through team discussions, 1-1, and performance reviews
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements and technical feasibility of new features and products
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on software design, architecture, and development methodologies
- Identify and recruit top engineering talent as needed to support the growth and expansion of the team
- Work closely with our Director of Product to shape and define Argent’s Product and Engineering roadmap
Desirable
- Experience with Starknet and/or good knowledge of the Starknet ecosystem
- Experience in managing teams in a remote only environment
What the job involves
- Lead our engineering organisation into delivering high-quality, scalable, software products fulfilling our strategic product objectives
- Manage our engineering leads, providing mentorship and coaching through team discussions, 1-1, and performance reviews
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements and technical feasibility of new features and products
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on software design, architecture, and development methodologies
- Identify and recruit top engineering talent as needed to support the growth and expansion of the team
- Work closely with our Director of Product to shape and define Argent’s Product and Engineering roadmap
Our take
The public popularity of cryptocurrency is increasing, but the level of sophistication required is holding back mainstream adoption, and concepts like seed phrases and cold wallets have meant crypto has stayed mainly within technology-savvy communities. To open the space up to more users, Argent have created a smart wallet which feels more like logging into your bank account, where people can buy, earn, stake, and trade on Ethereum Layer 2.
Argent's pull is in its consumer-friendly, non-intimidating approach. It boasts low fees, high speeds, and quality security, alongside all the functions of saving, sending, borrowing, earning interest, and investing. Additionally, users can assign Argent Guardians in the form of trusted persons, third-party services, or hardware wallets, that can approve account recovery or untrusted transactions, but do not have access to their assets, instead of having to remember a key.
With the underlying wallet infrastructure in place, Argent has plans to build a Super App combining numerous DeFi and Web 3.0 features including virtual real estate, gaming, and NFTs. The company has seen growing demand from Latin America, and will begin expansion into the region with entry into Mexico.
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36% employee growth in 12 months
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Inspiring mission
"The team is tackling the most important issue in crypto right now without compromising their values. The expertise and competence of the original..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$12.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60.1m
Company benefits
- 🌍 You can work anywhere in Europe. The best part? No commute!
- 🧘 Work flexibly and autonomously. Shape your work day to suit you so that you have plenty of time to care for kids or cats, and - most importantly - yourself.
- 💰 Equity in a high growth startup backed by the investors of Spotify and Slack.
- 🛩 Trips across Europe. For one week every quarter we meet in person as a company to explore new solutions and to have fun! So far we’ve stayed in Nice, Toulouse, Brussels, Lisbon and Barcelona.
- 👶 Generous parental leave.
- 🤙 Build a new industry with us, defining the future of the web
Company values
- Own it
- Progress through Pragmatism
- Pioneer with Purpose
- Challenge and be Challenged
- Power users
- Embed trust
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Additional info
- Argent work remotely. Although they're a distributed team you'll need to be based in the UK or Europe. Within Europe you can choose to work wherever you like!
Leadership
Itamar Lesuisse
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Peak. Prior to this, worked at Visa, Amazon and BCG.
Julien Niset
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)Previously founded & sold the IP for SQR Technologies to build UltraFast Quantum Random Number Generators. Earned a PhD in Physics with a focus on Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography.
Gerald Goldstein
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Peak Labs and was CTO there for 6 years. Earned a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of Brussels.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Argent
- At Argent, we know that our greatest strengths come from the people who make up our team. We are committed to increasing diversity in web3 and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture.
- With over 16 different nationalities amongst our employees, we embrace diversity and want to make sure that diverse voices are elevated and intentionally integrated into our work. There is a lot of work to be done and we - as a company - are committed to continually being better
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