Founding Software Engineer
Megapot
Software Engineering
United States · Remote
USD 150k-225k / year + Equity
Posted on May 21, 2025
Founding Software Engineer
Remote (US timezones)
Engineering
Remote
Full-time
About Megapot
In a few years, the whole world will pause for a moment every day to see who just became a billionaire. We'd love for you to join us in bringing Megapot, the world’s largest jackpot, to life. We are already crypto's largest with a daily $370k prize and $32M volume.
The global lottery market is $355 billion with 57% of Americans buying a ticket every year. Yet, lotteries are primarily offline due to local regulations and sales through physical stores. Megapot leverages blockchain immutability, composability, and liquidity for global compliance and online sales.
The Megapot protocol uniquely bootstraps a big jackpot with a novel liquidity provider mechanism, and returns 10x more to players compared to traditional lotteries. Our developer platform enables anyone to easily sell tickets, with third-party apps having driven the majority of sales.
We haven’t announced publicly, but we’ve raised $5M from Tier 1 crypto investors, plus founders of the world’s largest iGaming brands and protocols with $10B+ in TVL.
Your Role
You will lead development for our apps and developer experience for third-party apps. This is a frontend-leaning fullstack role.
- Building a mobile web app that even your mom can use. You’ll work on making the app welcoming (we love this article), performant as we expand to emerging countries, and abstract away crypto (eg. try credit card checkout in 15 seconds at megapot.io, let’s go further).
- A scalable interface to be adapted across dApps, wallets, and chains. You’ll lead expansion across EVM chains, TON, and Solana, mini apps on Telegram and World, all settling in one global jackpot.
- Building SDKs to enable any developer, crypto or not, to integrate Megapot. You'll be a forward-deployed engineer with apps already embedding our jackpot, remixing our protocol (eg. auto-subscription), and programmatically issuing tickets as incentives. We have significant demand from crypto casinos too.
- Build backend infrastructure such as an onchain points system and payment rails
Requirements
- 1+ years as a tech lead or EM
- 5+ years as a software engineer
- Experience building apps at scale (1M+ users)
- Experience working at a startup
Compensation and Benefits
- We offer higher salary and equity than comparable startups:
- Salary: $150k to 225k
- Equity: 1.5 to 3%+, with 7 year exercise window
- Token warrants
- We provide benefits so you can do your best work:
- Unlimited paid-time-off (PTO)
- Top medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Fully remote work. Work wherever you want, as long as we get to collaborate in realtime.
- You must live in a US timezone (GMT-5 to GMT-8 / Eastern to Pacific Time)
- We meet quarterly for full-team offsites
- Learn more about our values and hiring process.
Tech Stack
You’ll get to decide our tech stack. Our MVP was built minimally with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Redis. As we rebuild for global scale, you’ll shape our systems for the years to come.
Req ID: R2