Design Lead, Brand Design

About the role:

We are seeking a full-time, seasoned Brand Design Lead to support and scale our Brand design team. You’ll be responsible for leading Brand Design and will be reporting to the Head of Design. You’ll be responsible for overall design output, holding the highest bar for quality, high-level creative direction, managing projects end-to-end, measuring success and evangelizing the team’s work internally and externally.As a leader, you will substantially craft the vision and the next chapter of the Aptos brand design system while leading and growing an inclusive, best-in-class design team. You’ll support and collaborate with cross functional teams throughout the company with projects spanning across marketing, advertising, external and internal comms, visual product design, and more. 

What you’ll be doing: 

  • Collaborating with Product, Product Design, Marketing, and Engineering to continue to build and evolve the Aptos brand identity.
  • Develop and design assets for branding, events, communications, web, marketing, social, and anything else that requires visual brand solutions.
  • Work closely with the Product and Product Design teams to apply branding and create visual identities across all Aptos products (Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs).
  • Manage and direct any work with external agencies.
  • Support and mentor a junior to mid-level brand designer and scale the brand design team.

What we’re looking for:

  • Proven leader who inspires the team to their best work
  • 7+ years experience with 2+ years experience managing a team
  • Exceptional creativity and innovative design skills, with a strong portfolio of work to prove it
  • Excels at design software, including Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Highly organized and thrives making ambiguity more tractable, actionable, and desirable
  • Organizational and time-management skills for meeting deadlines as well as motivating a team to deliver in a fast-paced environment
  • Empathetic and collaborative cross-functional partner

The base salary range for this full-time position is $210k – $240k. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and typical maximum target for new hire salaries for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level. We do hire exceptionally talented professionals with decades of experience in their field. As such, our range may be higher than what is displayed. Our base salary ranges are determined by experience and location, and we hire at all levels for multiple roles. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, job-related skills demonstrated during the interviews, working experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include equity, tokens, or benefits.

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Visual Designer, Brand Design

About the role:

We are seeking a full-time visual designer to join our Brand Design Team. You’ll be reporting to the Brand Design Lead and will be responsible for overall design output, holding the highest bar for quality, and working collaboratively with cross functional teams throughout the company with projects spanning across marketing, advertising, external and internal comms, visual product design, and more. 

What you’ll be doing: 

Collaborating with Product, Product Design, Marketing, and Engineering to continue to build and evolve the Aptos brand identity.

  • Craft original visual designs and brand systems that are informed by strategy and research.
  • Work with the Brand Lead to develop and design assets for branding, events, communications, web, marketing, social, and anything else that requires visual brand solutions.
  • Work closely with the Product and Product Design teams to apply branding and create visual identities across all Aptos products (Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs).

What we’re looking for:

  • 5+ years visual design experience
  • Expertise in design software, including Figma, Illustrator, Lottie, etc.
  • Highly conceptual thinking in visual and brand design, which shows in your portfolio
  • A portfolio that demonstrates a strong understanding of consistency, typography, color, brand systems, and attention to detail
  • Experience in animation and motion design
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Organizational and time-management skills for meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment

The base salary range for this full-time position is $94k-$144k. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and typical maximum target for new hire salaries for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level. We do hire exceptionally talented professionals with decades of experience in their field. As such, our range may be higher than what is displayed. Our base salary ranges are determined by experience and location, and we hire at all levels for multiple roles. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, job-related skills demonstrated during the interviews, working experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include equity, tokens, or benefits.

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Senior Brand Designer

Building the Internet of Money Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.What makes us different? Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world. Before you apply, please read the to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission.As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 60+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who have a long track record of building premium products for professionals and institutions as well as newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security through our products like , , and , with a focus on world-class customer support and for all. Become a Krakenite and build the internet of money!Proof of workThe Design TeamJoin our team of product designers to help us reinvent everything from the way money works to a bunch of even more ambitious things we can’t talk about yet — independent thinkers who believe in a tomorrow where cryptocurrency spreads wealth inclusively and enables new forms of creativity. We’re not building a fintech company here. We’re building an adventure. One that requires creative people who aren’t afraid to cast aside established ways of doing things to create delightful, inclusive experiences for customers across 170+ countries. Throughout the history of civilization, there have been a handful of moments that changed the course of how we think about wealth and equality. The discovery of gold, the creation of paper money, mortgages, ATMs. We’re at the next of those moments right now, and there is no more exciting place to invest your creativity than directly at this intersection of technology and adventure. We are looking for motivated, detail-oriented self-starters with a passion for beautiful design that delivers meaningful experiences to our customers and continuing fantastic results for our rapidly expanding business. All designers on our team collaborate closely with product, marketing, researchers, and content specialists, so you must be comfortable working in this cooperative model. We feel that the best work comes when creative people roll up their sleeves and solve problems together.

The Opportunity

    • Work closely with a passionate Brand Design team  responsible for strategizing, ideating and producing a variety of modern design assets
    • Developing and maintaining brand guidelines: You will be actively contributing to guidelines that define how the brand should be used across our product ecosystem and touch points, ensuring consistency and cohesiveness in all brand communications
    • Create high quality, delightful design – with designers, researchers, animators, content specialists, and illustrations
    • Take concepts from research, to exploration, to delivery
    • Actively participate in design reviews both seeking and giving meaningful and supportive feedback
    • Help grow our inclusive design team culture with your unique personality
    • Collaborate with teams across the company from marketing to product to engineering
    • Work holistically across film, animation, illustration, digital design and graphic design
    • Take full accountability for your work and exercise consideration of every detailInnovate and explore the edges of technology and creativity

Skills You Should HODL

    • Design experience in startups or agencies, working with a variety of teams on a multitude of projects
    • A strong portfolio showcasing detail-oriented design work, strategic thinking and provocative creative
    • Excellence in typography, color, layout, and composition
    • Natural storytellers with a demonstrated ability to showcase work, rationalize decisions and communicate concepts
    • Mastery of Adobe CC, and a working knowledge of Figma
    • Ability to work independently, drive multiple projects at a time, and iterate quickly
    • Desire to thrive within a fast-paced, emerging industry with a variety of design challenges
    • Nice to haves 

    • Experience in Crypto or an avid fan of the industry
    • Proficiency in English writing
    • Remote working experience

Location Tagging: #US #EU #LI-VF1 #LI-Remote Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. Stay in the know

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Blockchain Rust Engineer

Job Title: 

Blockchain Rust Engineer Reports To: 

Head of Blockchain, Chief Technology Officer About Star Atlas: 

Star Atlas is a next-gen MMORPG metaverse emerging from the confluence of the Solana blockchain, Unreal Engine 5’s real-time graphics technology and decentralized financial protocols. Developed by ATMTA Inc., Star Atlas combines play-to-earn NFT mechanics with an AAA cinematic space-genre experience creating an economy that replicates the tangibility of real world assets and ownership.

Responsibilities: 

  • Build solid, reliable software interacting directly with the Solana ecosystem
  • Help drive Solana adoption through market leading product experiences, i.e. Wallet, DEX, NFTs and more
  • Take the lead in system design decisions, architecture and features
  • Be responsible for the design, implementation, testing, and audit of Solana protocol upgrades
  • Work within interdisciplinary teams to continually deliver the highest quality products to our users,
  • Develop code quality standards to ensure the readability, best practices and maintainability of Solana smart contract/programs
  • Drive towards a high level of test automation with deterministic deployments of smart contracts
  • Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do

Required Skills:

  • Have a deep understanding of Rust, and JavaScript language and runtimes
  • Experienced user of Anchor Framework and @solana/web3.js
  • Familiarity with integrating with Solana projects including, Serum, Solart, Orca, Raydium, etc.
  • Knowledgeable about smart contract security and best practices
  • Understanding of tokenomics and governance design
  • Experienced user of Git version control system
  • You are highly motivated, self-driven, passionate about crypto currencies
  • You possess an innate curiosity, you know multiple programming languages, you are a strong advocate for the best engineering practices and thrive on learning new technologies
  • You take a pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex problems

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Sr. Software Engineer – Defi

Who We Are:

Solana is a high performance blockchain that can enable growing decentralized applications and systems to scale without sacrificing security. Solana Labs is the team that built the original protocol, and is building both the validator client and applications on top of the Solana blockchain; therefore the team is highly specialized, and we’re looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us build the Solana ecosystem. If you’re looking to join a fast-paced, problem solving environment in the center of blockchain infrastructure, cryptocurrency, and decentralized applications, then read on.

Overview: 

We are looking for a talented and driven Sr. Software Engineer who is passionate about building innovative products from 0 to Production. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will research and implement new DeFi primitives and improve existing ones. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and the engineering team to bring new products to market. This is an amazing opportunity offering you the ability to learn new technical skills in web3.0/blockchain and work with an amazing team of engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Be responsible for the research, design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance of Solana DeFi product initiatives.
  • Help drive Solana DeFi adoption through market-leading product experiences and new smart contract paradigms.
  • Build out services and APIs for frontend tools, backend services, and off-chain infrastructure.
  • Deliver secure, high-quality code that can be open sourced.
  • Perform internal code reviews and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of systems programming experience working with at least one of these languages (Rust, C, C++ or GO).
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer or equivalent.
  • Experience building user-facing software and API frameworks (REST/gRPC/GraphQL).
  • Ability to read and understand research papers and implement complex mathematical concepts in code.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and across the product engineering stack.
  • Highly autonomous, ability to design and develop software with minimal guidance.
  • Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Passionate about blockchain, DeFi, and Web3.
  • Working knowledge of git and continuous integration tools.
  • Excellent communication skills in English in both written and verbal communications

Nice to Have:

  • Experience working with blockchain technology.
  • Knowledge of common DeFi patterns.
  • Experience in algorithmic trading or understanding of traditional finance primitives.
  • Experience building large scale, data intensive applications.

The salary range for US-based candidates will be determined throughout the interview process and can vary depending on experiences, skills, and location. Candidates should anticipate an annual base salary (not including incentive compensation or other benefits) of $USD140,000 – $USD250,000 for full time employees.

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Solana Blockchain Developer

Company Overview:Ex Populus is a cutting-edge gaming and entertainment startup focused on building the Metaverse by leveraging web3 technology. Founded by notable executives from PC, Console, Mobile, VR, Esports, Crypto, & Animated film, who are partnering with creative rising stars to publish the world's most compelling games and entertainment.Purpose & Scope:Ex Populus is striving to bring joy to people around the globe with the world’s most compelling games and entertainment at the highest level possible. We are determined to work with the next generation of elite content creators and enable their vision by bringing them into a world class studio with some of the industry's most elite talent.

What You’ll Do:

    • Design, maintain and deploy smart contracts for video games and the Ex Populus games marketplace
    • Focus on security and best practices for contract development
    • Configure and deploy nodes in a network
    • Maintain stored and processed data on the blockchain Develop higher-level APIs on top of blockchain primitives
    • Manage implications of data on the blockchain and associate costs due to complications Staying current with the latest blockchain developments

What You’ll Need:

    • 2-3 years of Software Development experience
    • 2+ years of Rust experience
    • Experience designing and developing for large, horizontally scalable, high-transaction volume systems
    • Excellent problem solving and intuitive debugging skills
    • Knowledge of
    • Experience working in gaming (a plus)
    • Hard Hat experience (Optional)

The company is founded by industry veterans that have collectively received 3 Oscar nominations, 12 Emmy nominations and 7 Annie noms. The staff comes from companies like Ubisoft, Blizzard, Activision, Love Death & Robots, Pixar, Illumination, Wargaming and others. We look forward to speaking with you!

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Blockchain Simulations Engineer

About the position

Regardless of your role, you’ll have massive ownership and freedom and have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies across the stack (and across blockchains). This role is fully remote.

Technologies we currently use

  • 🦀 Rust & 🐍 Python
  • AWS as our main cloud provider
  • Postgres / Redis / Kafka / S3 / Prometheus

What you’ll do at Blowfish

  • Maintain & ship features to our custom Solana node
  • Improve our proprietary Solana multi-transaction simulator
  • Stay abreast of the latest features adopted by the Solana ecosystem and ensure our products evolve to support them
  • Write and deploy Solana smart contracts when necessary
  • Build an engineering culture that attracts the most talented people to join us

We’d love to hear from you if…

  • You want to be part of an early team with a lot of new product to build
  • You are excited about working with blockchain technologies
  • You enjoy tackling big problems with unknown solutions
  • You’re comfortable creating something from nothing
  • You are detail-oriented and care deeply about developer experience
  • You’re known to be pro-active and are driven by curiosity
  • You can handle complexity, but prefer simplicity

Qualifications

  • 4+ years full-time software engineering experience
  • 1+ years full-time experience working with Rust
  • 1+ years full-time working with Solana technologies
  • Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale.

Why Work with Us

Opportunity

We are a tight-nit team of blockchain industry veterans solving one of the largest problems facing the mass adoption of crypto: transaction security. Despite being a year old, we have already integrated into Phantom, the leading wallet on Solana with millions of users as well as many other wallets across the Solana & EVM ecosystems. We are scanning millions of transactions each week for malware and scams and are helping keep their users safe. Transaction security is a high leverage way to make a difference in the world — protecting users funds and enabling them to give informed consent when entering digital agreements involving their finances and other ownership rights. We support EVM and Solana blockchains and will be adding more chains over time.

Benefits

  • 👍 Significantly above market rate equity compensation package — giving you meaningful ownership is important to us
  • 🧘‍♀️ Comprehensive health insurance
  • 💻 Stipend for your ideal remote / WFH set-up: laptop, headphones, and any other work gear you may need.
  • 🏝️ Unlimited vacation with an enforced 20 day minimum policy: Take time off when you need it.
  • ⛰️ Paid travel – team on-sites in different parts of the world, several times a year

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Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Our crypto wallet is used by millions of people and provides a single, convenient solution for managing all your accounts and tokens across Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon. As a full-stack engineer at Phantom you’ll be doing everything from building delightful user interfaces and creating cross-platform client infrastructure on the frontend, to creating APIs, data pipelines and services that bridge the gap between the blockchain and the user experience our users have come to expect on the backend. Join us on our mission to make the digital economy safe and easy to use for everyone.

This role is fully remote; however, we’re only open to candidates based in US and EU time zones. Currently, Phantom cannot support employees from the following countries and continents: Russia, Pakistan, Ukraine, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.

Responsibilities

  • Feature development: You will be owning features on our web platforms – currently the  and our website.
  • New initiatives and products: You will be leading initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom, and to launch new complementary products or infrastructure.
  • Interfacing with users: You will be interfacing directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom – supporting them and collecting feedback to inform the direction of the product.
  • Team building: You will be working with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years full-time software engineering experience
  • Demonstrated interest in open and community-driven platforms
  • Nice-To-Have: experience in a blockchain based project 
  • English language proficiency

Why Work with Us

Opportunity

We are a team of experienced builders with a ton of traction in a big and growing market – our users are so passionate they were hacking their way into our private beta. Only months after launching we’ve acquired millions of users, and are adding hundreds of thousands every week. We are by far the leading wallet on Solana, and have expanded to Ethereum and Polygon. 

On top of that, there has never been a better time to work in crypto and on wallets in particular.

  • Wallets play a pivotal role: Wallets are responsible for on-boarding new users into crypto, and can make or break the user experience.
  • We are moving to a multi-chain world: New blockchains and scaling solutions are coming online and gaining traction, but are lacking decent wallets and bridges.
  • DeFi & NFTs are exploding : Interest in DeFi and NFTs has exploded, yet they are still an after-thought in existing wallets.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered.
  • Stipend for your ideal remote / WFH set-up: laptop, headphones, and any other work gear you may need.
  • Flexible hours and a long-standing, supportive remote environment.
  • Monthly co-working space and mobile phone expense.
  • Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it).
  • 401(k) retirement plan (although we are not matching at this time)
  • Wellness benefit
  • Daily lunch benefit

The target base salary for this role will range between $180,000 to $220,000 with the addition of equity and benefits. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors (such as location) at the point in time of offer.

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Encinitas/Solana Beach – D2D Sales Rep

 
$20 BASE + UNCAPPED COMMISSIONS + QUARTERLY SALES PERFORMANCE BONUS  + MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT
 

Our busy, growing sales outsourcing agency is looking for an organized, energetic, and reliable professional to join our amazing team. In this role, you will represent an up-and-coming technology and telecommunications company while helping them grow and maintain a high level of respect in the local community.  Your primary task will be conducting door-to-door sales calls with residential customers as you work to close deals on fiber optic internet plans.

 
What a field representative does:

  • Field agents work approximately 5-8 hours each working day in their territory Tuesday – Saturday. (Tuesday-Friday: 12pm-8pm, Saturday: 10am-6pm)
  • You’ll spend your week going door-to-door to residences throughout your territory with the goal of having valuable, face-to-face conversations.
  • You’ll present and educate residential customers on our client’s brand value and services.
  • Meet weekly sales goals and metrics.

Why you’ll love working for SPI:

  • Highly competitive earning potential with a base of $20/hour, plus uncapped monthly sales commissions.
  • Expected total compensation is $70k-$120k annually.
  • Part-time and full-time options available.
  • Extensive career coaching and ongoing training opportunities focused on your growth and professional development. We invest in you. Over 90% of our management team have been promoted internally. We want to see you grow!
  • Your work matters here. Our client is laser focused on providing fast, reliable, and affordable internet to the community, and you will be a key part of making that happen.
  • Mileage reimbursement.
  • Full-time benefits package (Includes PTO, paid sick time, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k/401k matching, and more.)

 
Note: The expected total compensation (hourly rate plus commission) for an employee who works part-time and meets sales goals is approximately $70,000 annualized. Potential for Total Compensation increases with hours worked and sales closed.
 
What you’ll bring to SPI:

  • Passion for sales.
  • A confident communicator.
  • Proficient in using company issued iPhones, iPads, and CRM systems to manage and document daily activities.
  • Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • 2+ years of D2D field sales experience is a plus, but not required. If you’re eager to grow as a sales professional, we want to hear from you!
  • Must own a reliable automobile, possess a valid driver’s license, and have current auto insurance with limits that can be increased to meet our company requirements.
  • Must be able to sit and stand for long periods of time.
  • Prolonged periods of traveling from door-to-door in a residential area to conduct in-person sales meetings.
  • Must be able to carry up to 15 pounds.
  • Must be able to work in inclement weather.

Requirements:

  • Reliable transportation
  • Valid driver’s license
  • Car insurance
  • Ability to work until 8pm Tuesday-Friday and 10am-6pm on Saturday

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Software Engineering Team Leader

ABOUT BLOXROUTE bloXroute is the "Flash Boys" for DeFi. It created the first and only high performance blockchain distribution network (BDN) with the best solution for Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon. The bloXroute BDN and DeFi trading tools allow its users to win at crypto trading. The BDN utilizes a global network of servers optimized for network performance.  Nodes access this network through open source gateways and users can access it through the bloXroute public-API. The BDN network propagates blockchain transactions and blocks closer to the speed of light. It provides traders with the speed and reliability required for crypto transactions. bloXroute is the leader in mempool services, block streaming and anything Defi performance. The BDN also allow blockchains to scale by speeding the time it takes to communicate the current state. The BDN fast communication reduce the blocks’ size and frequency limits. This is true for all consensus mechanisms, including Proof of Stake, Proof of Work, and DAGs.We encourage you to apply even if you don't match all of the qualifications listed.

Responsibilities

    • Lead a team of blockchain core experts
    • Improve (suggest and implement) the speed of the BDN (Blockchain Distribution Network) based on the blockchain protocol, network and consensus model
    • Create offerings that leverage the speed of the data that passes through the blockchain distribution network
    • Integrate our core systems with other blockchains such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Solana and other future blockchains on the roadmap

Requirements

    • 2+ years experience in managing Sr. Software Engineer which are experts in their field
    • At least 5 years of experience with designing, building, testing and implementing highly scalable and distributed backend systems
    • 3+ years experience in Blockchain in general
    • 2+ years experience in Blockchain propagation, consensus (one of the following networks: Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon and Solana)
    • Expertise using Go language
    • Creative, independent, can do attitude, and a great team player
    • Ability to read, modify blockchain core code (geth, bor, prysm, …)

BENEFITS bloXroute Labs offers competitive salaries, stock options, company paid healthcare benefits, 401k, unlimited PTO, remote work option and more. The benefits may vary based on global locations. We built a highly skilled team of business and engineering minds who are working on complex and innovative projects.

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