Forward Deployed Engineer, Privy

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.

What it asks for · 8

• 5+ years of professional, hands-on full-stack development experience with languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python, Go, or Java
• Excel at rapid prototyping while maintaining appropriate quality standards
• Superb problem-solving skills and ability to understand the product and business side of development (in other words, you see the big picture)
• Experience building and owning features end-to-end
• Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A passion for handling ambiguity and picking up new technologies, frameworks, and tools
• An entrepreneurial and high ownership mindset
• A desire for impact and a deep sense of urgency for your work

Also a plus

• Written open-source developer tooling
• Published your work (code, presentations, papers, blog posts, etc.)
• Experience building web3 applications

What the job covers

• Work directly with customers to understand their technical and operational objectives, scope requirements, and prototype and propose software solutions
• Design, code, and launch features that improve and innovate on Privy’s core product using tools like TypeScript , React , and Next.js , and own end-to-end development
• Drive product deployments, including configuration, testing, and troubleshooting
• Champion customer success, ensuring the team understands, prioritizes, and pursues customer feedback and pain points
• Dive deep into customer codebases to understand product usage and friction points, and uncover opportunities for improvements
• Partner with internal stakeholders to continuously align product roadmap and strategy with customer needs and objectives

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• product12×
• customer11×
• privy7×
• requirements5×
• technical5×
• understand4×
• business3×
• deep3×
• developers3×
• development3×
• engineer3×
• features3×
• objectives3×
• privy core3×
• security3×
• capabilities2×

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