About the job
Wally is a wallet infrastructure company that is helping to onboard the next billion users onto crypto products. We are working on a unique approach to signing people up for crypto apps to ensure that people don’t have to store private keys, and they can log into crypto products in a familiar way, such as with a username and password, or methods like Sign in with Google and Sign in with Apple. We believe that the next wave of successful crypto apps will need to appeal to users who aren't familiar with tools like Metamask and aren't comfortable with private key custody. We have the first production version of the product deployed and have onboarded our initial set of pilot customers.
We are looking for a founding engineer to take over the API and infra, continue to build out new features, recruit and lead new team members, and contribute in countless other ways to help build the business.

About Wally

Wally makes it easy to integrate wallets into an application without needing blockchain and security expertise. We make it simple for companies to provide the ease-of-use that users are accustomed to from top consumer crypto apps like Dapper, Sorare, and Coinbase without the onerous technical and regulatory efforts that those companies had to go through.

Wally has raised funding from a series of top-notch early stage funds and angel investors, led by Afore.vc, Engineering Capital (Ashmeet Sidana), and top angels including Justin Kan, Matt Knox (Reddit), Sriram Krishnan, Garrett Lord (Handshake), Hareesh Nagaraj (Audius), Shiva Rajaraman (Head of Product, OpenSea), Lydia Hylton (Bain Capital Crypto), Dan Porter (Overtime), and Meera Clark (Redpoint Ventures).

We’re based in NYC and looking to hire in NYC. We believe that in-person collaboration is strategically important for a company at our stage — both for velocity and company culture.



Experience

- 4+ years of experience building and architecting backend APIs

- Experience working with relational databases, especially Postgres

- Experience working with Javascript/Typescript/Nest.js (Node)

- Familiarity with AWS and Terraform

Bonus points

- Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage employees to be future founders and hope this can be a great stepping stone)

- Familiarity with MPC techniques like Shamir's Secret Sharing, Verifiable Secret Sharing, and/or Threshold Signature Schemes

- Previous experience building crypto or fintech infrastructure related to storing and processing sensitive data

- Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

Compensation

- Base: $140k-180k

- Equity: 1-3%

About the team

‍Mayank Jain is a former engineer and product manager at Reddit where he worked on the Growth team and impacted nearly every facet of the business, including user growth, subreddit growth, revenue, and safety. Before that he was also the first employee and founding engineer at Viome, where he wrote the initial technical foundations of the consumer facing product, and helped define, manage, and execute the launch of the first version of the service including both digital and physical experiences. He knows exactly what it’s like to come into an early stage startup with a lot of the specifics undefined while building the foundations of a multi-hundred million dollar business.

We have a strong team of contractors from Metamask, Roblox, and CapitalOne that have built out the initial version of the product and will continue on the team after you join.


Want to find out more?

Email me at mayank@wally.xyz