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.
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Company mission
Argent's mission is to empower everyone to control and prosper from their digital assets and identity.
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36% employee growth in 12 months
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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Benefits
- š You can work anywhere in Europe. The best part? No commute!
- š§ 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.
- š° Equity in a high growth startup backed by the investors of Spotify and Slack.
- š© 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 weāve stayed in Nice, Toulouse, Brussels, Lisbon and Barcelona.
- š¶ Generous parental leave.
- š¤ 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
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$12.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60.1m
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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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- 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!
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I constantly feel challenged by my team. It's great to be exposed to so many clever ideas and ways of solving problems. Truly inspiring innovators that unintentionally push you to be better
Product
Intelligent people
Sep 2022
The team is tackling the most important issue in crypto right now without compromising their values. The expertise and competence of the original team permeates to the whole company and it's an amazing energy to feel
Product
Inspiring mission
Sep 2022
Everyone in the company is strongly aligned with the values. The problem we're solving is so difficult to tackle that we need a constant flow of great ideas, and we are all aware that those can come from anywhere. We have a platform where anyone can submit ideas, challenge other's and work together on the promising ones to help the mission forward
Product
My opinions are valued
Sep 2022
The team has pioneered smart wallets, including features such as social recovery and 1 tap Dapp access that could reinvent how people access crypto. Ethereum's founder Vitalik Buterin has said it's what's needed for the mass adoption of crypto.
Operations & Strategy
Innovative product
Sep 2022
Crypto evolves incredibly quickly and Argent works at the cutting edge of it, building the first wallets on two of the networks that could become the backbone of the industry. The team includes some of the world's top experts on topics such as wallet security and UX. And you get to meet a lot of the best founders and other projects from the rest of the ecosystem.
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Sep 2022
The future will be increasingly digital. That future could either be dominated by tech giants or by community driven and open networks that put people in control. Argent is working to make the latter a reality.
Operations & Strategy
Inspiring mission
Sep 2022
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