Principal Engineer, Aave Labs

Salary not provided

TypeScript

GraphQL

Postgres

REST API

Senior and Expert level

London

Open source protocol for decentralised lending

Job no longer available

Open source protocol for decentralised lending

101-200 employees

CryptocurrencySocialBlockchain

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

TypeScript

GraphQL

Postgres

REST API

Senior and Expert level

London

101-200 employees

CryptocurrencySocialBlockchain

Company mission

To reinvent our modern paradigms in the realm of finance, social media networking and beyond.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Minimum of 3 years in a Staff or Principal Engineering role, with a strong preference for experience in Fintech and Payments
Advanced proficiency in TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, Restful and distributed backend system design
Solid grasp of transaction processing and ledgering and asynchronous risk monitoring
Experience building mission critical, API-first, services in a production environment for enterprise-scale customers
Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Driven by the opportunity to make decentralized finance the backbone of fintech and to contribute meaningfully to its practical application in the real world

What the job involves

As a Principal Engineer at Avara, you will lead the design and implementation of regulated payments infrastructure. Your expertise will enable seamless money movement and high-conversion payment acceptance across Avara’s products and partner ecosystem. Together, we will build bridges, remove toll booths, and increase financial access for billions of people
Oversee the end-to-end process of designing, implementing, and deploying regulated payments infrastructure
Ask questions, uncover edge cases, and tend to our documentation
Go fast, be agile, but also know when to slow down. As a regulated payments business, we need to take some decisions slowly in order to design for zero-defects and massive scale
Obsess over transaction processing speed and clear communication with Customers. This is how we build trust
Maintain short feedback cycles through communicating priorities, failing forward, and learn as a team

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Aave Labs is known for its cutting-edge Web 3.0 products built on blockchain technologies. The company has crafted the highly resilient Aave Protocol - a decentralised, open-source, and non-custodial liquidity protocol.

One of its distinctive features is the tokenisation of deposits, allowing users to earn interest in real time as their deposits are transformed into tokens. Depositors contribute liquidity to pools, and borrowers can access this liquidity with variable and stable interest rate options.

Over the years, Aave Labs has branched out with projects such as its Lens social media protocol and Family wallet. However, these projects are now being shut down as the company refocuses its attention on DeFi. This move simplifies the company's structure and puts it in a better position to pursue goals of scaling towards trillions of dollars in onchain financial activity.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-14% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Dec 2024

$31m

EARLY VC

Oct 2020

$25m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $63.5m

Company benefits

Work-life balance
Equity
Regular team events and off-sites
Medical coverage and pension
Generous paid parental leave
Generous vacation and sick leave
Work from anywhere
Paid co-working space/desk

Company HQ

Notting Hill, London, UK

Leadership

Stani Kulechov

(Founder & CEO)

Stani graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master's in Law.

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