Senior Product Engineer

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.

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