Software Engineer, Aptos Labs

Product Infrastructure

$150-250k

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and typical maximum target for new hire salaries for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Python

C++

Rust

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

Building Layer 1 blockchain

Job no longer available

Building Layer 1 blockchain

201-500 employees

CryptocurrencyBlockchainWeb 3.0

Job no longer available

$150-250k

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and typical maximum target for new hire salaries for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Python

C++

Rust

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

201-500 employees

CryptocurrencyBlockchainWeb 3.0

Company mission

To help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of industry experience in building high quality code and infrastructure
Experience with a low-level programming language such as Rust, C/C++
Experience with backend systems and scaling high throughput applications
Experience with building user-facing products
Familiarity with Python or Typescript
Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS/GCS
A passion for continuously improving infrastructur

What the job involves

In this role, you will work directly with product teams to build reliable, performant, scalable and user-friendly backend services
You will also have the opportunity to define and build a cloud platform that will empower applications to quickly build on top of Aptos, including data APIs, low latency high throughput services that write to the blockchain, notification platform, identity management, and more!
Architect and build scalable, reliable services that will be used to onboard the next hundred millions of users onto Web3 and Aptos
Collaborate with teams across the company and ecosystem to scale their initiatives
Ensure the reliability and high-quality experience on all externally facing technical component
Develop and maintain high-quality software engineering practices and principles in a highly visible open-source project

Our take

Despite launching in just 2021, Aptos has soared to Unicorn status following an impressive funding round that saw major participation from players like PayPal Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. It's the company’s promise to build a layer 1 blockchain that has attracted all this attention as it outperforms competitors on critical metrics like scaleability and speed.

Aptos is created by the team behind Facebook’s recently shuttered cryptocurrency endeavor Diem (previously Libra), who left the company when Diem sold its tech assets to Silvergate Capital. Now, Silvergate Capital is itself an investor in the new project. This goes to show the confidence the Aptos' team commands, and the increasingly mainstream industry appetite for a blockchain that can sustain major operations.

Developers from companies like Binance, Anchorage, and Coinbase are already part of Aptos. This talent, in combination with 2024 VC funding and its remarkable 2022 Series A, will fuel the team’s progress and is a hugely promising start for the young venture.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

110% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jul 2022

$150m

SERIES A

Mar 2022

$200m

SEED

Total funding: $350m

Company benefits

Remote-friendly work coverage
Health insurance coverage
Equipment of your choice
Unlimited Vacation time
Competitive Salary
Stock options

Company HQ

University South, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Mo Shaikh

(Co-Founder)

Previously held various analyst positions at companies like KPMG, Royal Bank of Canada, BlackRock, and BCG. Subsequently directed strategy at ConsenSys alongside founding and leading Meridio, then worked on strategic partnerships at Novi (Meta).

Avery Ching

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo!, Facebook, and then for the crypto platform team at Novi (Meta). Has also spent over a decade as VP of Apache Giraph.

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