Company Overview: ORCA is a leading DeFi project on the Solana Blockchain. Our goal is to revolutionize the financial industry by leveraging blockchain technology to create a decentralized financial ecosystem. Unlike traditional financial systems that rely on intermediaries like banks and brokers, ORCA aims to provide financial services through smart contracts on Solana. Our dynamic and diverse team is committed to excellence and innovation across global markets.

As a team of talented engineers, Orca’s contributors are comfortable working around the stack but tend to be experts in a particular area. Orca is looking for a like-minded generalist who enjoys building out great user-facing products, talking to developers, and has a sharp eye for design details.

What you’ll do

• Build delightful user-facing products, whether it’s a TypeScript SDK, stats and price API, or brand new interface.
• Create compelling user experiences with a sharp eye for design details.
• Make complex interactions and animations look easy and seamless to both end users and fellow engineers.
• Maintain tooling and best practices for testing, package management, and CI/CD.
• Improve site speed, performance, and reliability.
• Contribute to an open-source culture and process.

What you’ll bring

• Proven track record: You’ve worked on performant, user-facing features at scale, ideally in finance or adjacent industry.
• Balanced mindset: You’re comfortable working independently in an async environment, but also enjoy coming together to collaborate as a team. You’re passionate about certain technologies and patterns, but also recognize there are trade-offs in different scenarios. You don’t see everything in absolutes, and identify the underlying dimensions to make decisions.
• Design sense: While you’re capable of creating “pixel perfect” interfaces, you’re equally comfortable (and maybe even prefer) filling in the details and making design suggestions yourself.
• Excellent communicator: You articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly—and pass the mic to empower others to be heard.
• Strong interest in DeFi: Extensive experience using DeFi apps and familiar with the Solana ecosystem.

What Orca offers

• Salary: 140,000 - 220,000 USDC (Range for US employees)
• Token allocation: 140,000 - 200,000 ORCA over 4 years (Range for US employees)
• Opportunity to learn and develop Solana DeFi.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Home office stipend.
• Wellness stipend.
• Option to work remotely or from Orca’s office in New York City.
• Paid subscriptions to GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other tools that make you more productive.

Our stack

• Rust, PostgreSQL, Timescale
• Node.js, Typescript
• Solana's Geyser plugin, Yellowstone gRPC
• Solana smart contracts written in Rust using Anchor
• AWS ECS and docker to streamline deployments to staging, canary, and production
• GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack

About: https://orca.so/about

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