Senior Product Engineer

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