Founding Engineer – Backend

At Shadow, we're building the end-to-end data platform for crypto. Blockchain networks are the next evolution of the Internet, yet it's much too difficult to work with onchain data today. We're taking a crypto-native approach to reimagine blockchain data infrastructure from the ground up, starting with a product that allows anyone to extract custom data from any smart contract. We've raised $9M in seed funding led by Paradigm, with additional angels from Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, and Flashbots. We're a small team who primarily works out of a beautiful office space in NYC. We're hiring a founding backend engineer to join our world-class team. In this role you'll be working closely with the CTO to architect and build out the backend infrastructure that powers Shadow. You should get excited about building fast, extensible systems that can handle terabytes of realtime and historical data. We're looking for an experienced IC who wants to: Design and build the new standard for blockchain data infrastructure. You will own large parts of the infrastructure that stores, processes, and indexes terabytes of onchain data. Own the end-to-end backend implementation for new products. You'll build things in a way that allows us to rapidly iterate our product based on customer feedback. Crush every other benchmark. We plan to publicly release benchmarks vs other onchain data systems, and your name will be listed prominently for everyone to see. Drive business outcomes. Performance is a major differentiator in this space. Every optimization you make will lead directly to winning customers and market share.

We're a small team who primarily works out of a beautiful office space in NYC.