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Dragonfly · 3 hours ago

Founding Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio

NYC Metro Area

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with over $2B in assets under management. They are seeking a Founding Engineer to influence core platform decisions and provide technical leadership in a fast-paced environment focused on building reliable systems for the crypto ecosystem.

Business DevelopmentFinanceFinancial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Built and shipped production systems supporting real users and real financial or consumer workflows where reliability mattered

Owned systems end-to-end, including backend services, frontend delivery, data models, and operational reliability

Designed and operated systems dependent on third-party infrastructure such as payments, card issuing, identity, and KYC, or other regulated services

Mentored or guided other engineers in high-ownership environments, even without formal management titles

This is a principal level engineering role with direct influence on core platform decisions at the company’s earliest stage

You will work closely with the CPTO, who owns product strategy and roadmap, while you own execution, technical judgment, and how the platform is built, hardened, and prepared for real-world use

The role is focused on the areas of greatest impact. You will coordinate and provide technical leadership to early internal engineers and contractors, while directly owning critical architecture, code paths, and production systems

You will be highly influential in shaping the engineering team, setting the technical bar and decision-making norms that future engineers build on

Qualification

Production systemsEnd-to-end ownershipSystem designTechnical leadershipMentorship

Required

Built and shipped production systems supporting real users and real financial or consumer workflows where reliability mattered

Owned systems end-to-end, including backend services, frontend delivery, data models, and operational reliability

Designed and operated systems dependent on third-party infrastructure such as payments, card issuing, identity, and KYC, or other regulated services

Mentored or guided other engineers in high-ownership environments, even without formal management titles

Company

Dragonfly

Dragonfly Capital Partners is investing in and supporting the promising opportunities in the cryptoasset class.

Founded in 2018

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.dragonfly.xyz/

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