About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Founding Engineer based in Hungary.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and evolution of the web application, delivering high-quality features aligned with product goals and user needs.
- Make and own engineering decisions that support the product roadmap, technical scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Contribute to the design and evolution of the platform's cryptoeconomic structure and reward mechanisms.
- Establish scalable engineering practices, development processes, and quality standards that enable the organization to grow effectively.
- Help shape the technical direction and product vision as a founding member of the engineering organization.
- Following product-market fit, recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team.
- Establish a strong engineering culture centered on quality, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with product and other stakeholders to translate ideas into reliable, scalable technology.
Requirements
- Proven experience building scalable, testable, and high-quality web or mobile applications.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to make sound technical decisions in an evolving product environment.
- Demonstrated experience building or leading high-quality engineering teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and thoughtfully.
- Strong ownership mentality and the ability to operate autonomously while maintaining alignment with broader product objectives.
- Humble, optimistic, energetic, and inspiring approach to collaboration and leadership.
- Experience with Django and React is highly desirable.
- Experience developing mobile applications with React Native is a plus.
- Experience writing Ethereum smart contracts and working with Solidity is a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and modern web application architectures is beneficial.
Conditions
- Founding-level ownership and influence over product and engineering direction.
- Opportunity to shape an engineering organization and culture from an early stage.
- Remote working environment with the flexibility to contribute from Canada.
- Opportunity to work across web development, blockchain, smart contracts, and innovative technology.
- Significant autonomy in technical decision-making and execution.
- Opportunity to help build products designed to accelerate scientific research and collaboration.
- Potential to grow into a key engineering leadership position as the organization scales.