Full Stack Senior Engineer

Recurrent Labs / Currents.fm is a protocol and a platform – collectively, Currents.

We're a team of Artists from almost every continent who are building infrastructure for progressively decentralized, Artist-owned culture networks as a distribution layer on the blockchain.

We work to directly empower our worldwide grassroots scenes across over 100 countries and are building a new, open fabric redefining the future of the music economy.

We’re backed by an incredible group consisting of both founders and artists who believe in the vision of a decentralized, vibrant, and community-owned future, including Blockchain Capital, Protocol Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko (founder of Solana), and Backstage Capital.

Recurrent Labs is building a world-class founding team. As one of our first team of engineers, you’ll help drive our technical decisions and influence our product direction for years to come, with the goal of redefining the future of the music economy.

This will involve R&D in international payments infrastructure, live and prerecorded content delivery on traditional and decentralized architectures, and UX design to engage listeners and creators with each other in novel way.

You’ll report directly to Currents’ CTO, Lucy.

Traits we look for:

Explorers / Thriving in Ambiguity

You have the ability to quickly assess large, amorphous problems and learn any tools needed to distill structure from chaos. You understand that it's never idealism vs. reality, but both. You are able to not just survive, but have a history of thriving when dropped in a foreign environment.

Builders / Action Before Motivation

You're a self-starter that loves action-focused environments. You're not afraid to make mistakes and have a strong bias towards iterating based on first-principles thinking. You're able to validate assumptions, manage expectations, and under-promise + over-deliver.

Perspectives / Creativity in Diversity

You are excited about how our differences enable us to solve complex, interdisciplinary problems. You build communities naturally and don't hesitate to hold space for others with a personal practice of inclusion, mindfulness, and most importantly, kindness.

Tinkerers / Constantly Learning

You like to get involved in things. You are always throwing yourself into projects. Whether they're creative pursuits, side hustles, or hobbies, you're constantly learning about the world through the act of creation.

Humanists / Tech is built for People

You see in systems. You understand that just like content, tech doesn't exist in a vacuum – it's a tool and its human impact is derived from the people behind it. You have a track record of creating impact while integrating nuanced context across culture, history, and industry.

Artists / Music is Connection

You have a deep love of music, of discovering music, and of connecting with the people who celebrate it. You're constantly pushing forward in the pursuit of music, new and old, to listen to and share.

 

Responsibilities will include:

• You’ll work alongside the founding team and directly with Artists and listeners to evaluate, build, and launch core features of the project from start to finish.
• You’ll craft beautiful, minimal, and seamlessly smooth UX flows that incorporate the needs of a diverse Artist community around the world.
• You’ll build and scale core backend architecture that is reliable, flexible, and performant.
• You'll work primarily with a JS / Typescript codebase (Express.js, Next.js, React, Firebase, etc.)
• In the process, you’ll throw a lot of festivals and develop an up-to-the-second understanding for the future of music.

 

Requirements

• ~3-5 years of relevant experience building frontend-heavy applications, conducting user research, creating design systems, validating prototypes, and scaling backend infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Javascript/Node, React, and one or more state management libraries e.g. MobX/Redux/etc.
• Experience in Solidity, Typescript, DB schema design, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform/Ansible/Chef/etc. a plus

Featured benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance

 

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