Orca’s mission is to become the leading provider of financial primitives on Solana. Orca sees a future where a meaningful percentage of the world’s financial transactions is powered by CLAMMs and other Decentralized Finance (DeFi) products. Orca’s looking to add another senior software engineer to accelerate our progress towards that vision.

As a team of talented engineers, Orca’s contributors are comfortable working around the stack but tend to be experts in a particular area. Orca is looking for a like-minded generalist who enjoys building out great user-facing products, talking to developers, and has a sharp eye for design details.

What you’ll do

• Build delightful user-facing products, whether it’s a TypeScript SDK, stats and price API, or brand new interface.
• Create compelling user experiences with a sharp eye for design details.
• Make complex interactions and animations look easy and seamless to both end users and fellow engineers.
• Maintain tooling and best practices for testing, package management, and CI/CD.
• Improve site speed, performance, and reliability.
• Contribute to an open-source culture and process.

What you’ll bring

• Proven track record: You’ve worked on performant, user-facing features at scale, ideally in finance or adjacent industry.
• Balanced mindset: You’re comfortable working independently in an async environment, but also enjoy coming together to collaborate as a team. You’re passionate about certain technologies and patterns, but also recognize there are trade-offs in different scenarios. You don’t see everything in absolutes, and identify the underlying dimensions to make decisions.
• Design sense: While you’re capable of creating “pixel perfect” interfaces, you’re equally comfortable (and maybe even prefer) filling in the details and making design suggestions yourself.
• Excellent communicator: You articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly—and pass the mic to empower others to be heard.
• Strong interest in DeFi: Extensive experience using DeFi apps and familiar with the Solana ecosystem.

What Orca offers

• Salary: 140,000 - 190,000 USDC (Range for US employees)
• Token allocation: 50,000 - 100,000 ORCA over 4 years (Range for US employees)
• Opportunity to learn and develop Solana DeFi.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Home office stipend.
• Wellness stipend.
• Option to work remotely or from Orca’s office in New York City.
• Paid subscriptions to GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other tools that make you more productive.

Our hiring process

We like to be transparent and efficient. We move fast, and this process will be short and intense. We believe this process gives candidates the best experience in getting decisions quickly instead of long, drawn out interview rounds that last weeks.

Initial Screen (40 min)

This will be for us to get an understanding of your experiences and test your knowledge of Solana and DeFi. It is also an opportunity for you to learn more about the role and company.

COO Round (60min)

The first 30 min will be a coding question with me. Depending on the outcome, this could lead to a 30-45 min interview with Isaac, who is our COO. It's a chance for you to learn about Orca's history, present status, and its bright future. He will also gauge your knowledge of AMMs and DeFi.

3rd Round (60 min each)

This round will consist of 3 open-ended coding interviews back-to-back all conducted the same day. It will be with Otto, Head of Engineering, and 2 engineers who will be teammates of this role.

Our stack

• Rust, PostgreSQL, Timescale
• Node.js, Typescript
• Solana's Geyser plugin, Yellowstone gRPC
• Solana smart contracts written in Rust using Anchor
• AWS ECS and docker to streamline deployments to staging, canary, and production
• GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack

About: https://orca.so/about

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