The posting
Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies.
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



