Frontend Engineer

MetaDAO

MetaDAO

Software Engineering · Full-time
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 140k-220k / year
Posted on Aug 1, 2024

We believe that the world's decisions can be made by markets. To make that a reality, we're building the world's first platform for creating and trading decision markets. It's like Polymarket but for decision markets.

This is a unique opportunity to work on the cutting edge of markets, decision-making, and crypto. If you like markets and mechanism design, you'll love the problems we work on!

Why MetaDAO?

  • Solve interesting problems: currently, we're working on how grants decisions can be made with markets. We need to evaluate problems like 'how can we create financial contracts that pay out relative to grant effectiveness?' and 'could we automatically halt grant payments based on market prices?' Noone has built market-governed grants programs before, so this is a greenfield for creative problem-solving.
  • Have a big impact: replacing managers with markets is a radical change. If we're successful, you would have been a part of that.
  • Work in a growing industry: we believe that due to their global, 24/7, cheap, and transparent nature, public blockchains like Solana are the future of the financial system. You have the opportunity to work in a growing part of a growing industry.

Why NOT MetaDAO?

  • The path is unpaved: there is no playbook for building a successful decision market platform. We rapidly iterate our own understanding of how best to grow the platform, and we expect any contributors to be able to do the same.
  • This is our lives: we love what we do and often don't see it as work. If work-life balance is something you care a lot about, this is probably not for you.
  • We're in-office in SF: we believe that proximity is paramount for early-stage endeavours. We're in SF because it's the highest density of capital and high-performing people in the world, and we expect any full-time contributors in-office with us.

Compensation

To attract the best people, our goal is to provide competitive cash compensation and high upside in the long-term success of MetaDAO. Token compensation is subject to a four-year lockup from the date of joining.

Interview Process

  1. Send a brief proof of exceptional ability to market.governed.civilization@metadao.fi
  2. Intro Call - 30 minute chat with one of the founders
  3. Take Home - 2-4 hour take home project
  4. Deep Dive - 45 minute chat with one of the founders to go over what you built in detail
  5. Weekend Hack - 2 day, paid, in office undertaking with the team
  6. Reference checks / Offer

We're a DAO governed by futarchy, so any offer will be submitted to the markets, ultimately decided on chain. This process is similar to taking a candidate to the company's board.

Role

As a Frontend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing MetaDAO’s UI, engaging UX, constructing beautiful data displays and shaping use of decision markets for businesses and DAOs. We're looking for someone with a keen eye for design as well as expertise in frontend codebases.

Requirements:

  • Experienced at crafting high-quality interfaces and iterating based on customer feedback.
  • Obsessed with delighting the customer.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication ability.
  • Deployed production applications.

Nice-to-haves:

  • Have built or used crypto products before.

To apply, send a brief proof of exceptional ability to market.governed.civilization@metadao.fi and include in the subject line, "uxparadigm".

MetaDAO is an equal opportunity employer.