Founding Engineer

New York City (in-person) · Full-time · 0–2 years of experience

We're hiring a founding frontend/full‑stack engineer.

The fastest growing companies in the world are pump.fun, axiom, and hyperliquid [all of these were faster to 100M ARR than Lovable, Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.]. We believe this stresses a megatrend that the world is becoming more tokenized, more liquid, and that anything will become tradable [equities, trends, prediction markets, and more].

We're building a platform that enables the lowest latency gamified* trading experience using crypto rails. We've raised a pre‑seed from top VCs and angels in crypto and are looking to grow aggressively.

What we offer

  • Your own room in a very luxurious NYC apartment with amenities
  • Unlimited upside for salary [base of 150k – 225k, + bonus directly proportional to company performance + a lot of equity]
  • Work directly with the founding team in person every day

Preferred qualifications

  • Believe in the hypergambling thesis: long degeneracy
  • Basic understanding of crypto markets and trading concepts
  • Grew up playing video games [Minecraft, LoL, Runescape, Maplestory, CSGO, Fortnite, etc]
  • Experience with AWS streaming services, particularly Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)
  • Experience with real-time data handling and WebSocket connections
  • Knowledge of financial data visualization and charting libraries

About the interview

  • Hackerrank (can choose between backend and frontend oriented)
  • Technical interview
  • Call with CTO
  • Work trial (we will pay you to come in and work with us in our office)

Tech stack

TypeScript, Python, Next.js, TailwindCSS, PostgreSQL, WebSockets

Apply

Please reach out to team@legend.trade with your resume, or if you know anyone that would be a great fit. We will pay $10,000 for successful referrals.