Senior Product Engineer

@ Ellipsis Labs
Ellipsis Labsellipsislabs.com

Senior Product Engineer

New York, NY
Posted 30 months ago

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About the job

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable NY-based startup creating efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput infrastructure, including Phoenix Perpetuals on Solana.

Requirements

  • 3+ years user-facing software experience
  • Experience with React and TypeScript
  • Cross-stack development ability
  • Informed product decision skills
  • User empathy and team-first attitude

Qualifications

  • Deep respect for users
  • High agency and willingness to learn
  • Passion for decentralized finance

Full job description

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.

The Opportunity

Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will:

  • Spec, build, and maintain professional-grade applications

  • Drive ambitious product initiatives (which may include entirely new product lines) from inception to completion: specification, architecture, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance

Qualifications

Required

  • 3+ years of experience building user-facing software products with high quality and well-documented production code

  • Experience building great UX with modern frontend frameworks, specifically React + TypeScript

  • Ability to work across the product engineering stack

  • Ability to make informed product decisions based on relevant business context

  • Deep respect and empathy for users

  • A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude

  • Passion for decentralized finance

Preferred

  • Experience working with blockchain technology, specifically Solana

  • Interest in quant trading or fintech

  • Product design or product management experience

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