1kx is an early-stage venture firm that helps founders launch and bootstrap token networks. We primarily lead seed and series A investment rounds with focus areas across infrastructure, consumer crypto, and middleware. We started in 2018 and have since been building a world-class platform to support our portfolio of 80+ companies, with the goal of being the most founder-friendly and helpful source of capital.

What we offer

• An opportunity to learn about the venture capital and crypto industries and work closely with our team and portfolio, gaining unique insights and access to the best network in crypto & web3.
• A chance to work with a dynamic and globally diverse team.
• Independent work that favors self-starters.
• Non-political, merit-based work culture.
• Future opportunities for roles within our team or our portfolio.
• Opportunities for travel to relevant industry events and company-wide offsites

What you offer

• Strong software engineering experience (5+ years) across multiple software stacks, including backend. You need to be more of a generalist than a specialist.
• Bonus if experience includes distributed systems or smart contracts development.
• Comfortable Linux user, basics of system administration is a plus.
• Problem solving ability: show us non-trivial problems that you solved that other competent engineers couldn't!
• Quick learner: use new tools, adopt new development products quickly. Be comfortable using LLMs to quickly learn new aspects of the tech stack.
• Experience developing backend applications, ideally distributed systems
• Comfortable with 10-20% of DevOps work:
  • AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux administration, both in cloud and bare metal.
• A slight plus if you have some experience building Web3 applications.
• You need to be in European or US East Coast time zones.

What you’ll do

• Work on internal 1kx projects, as well as 1k community contribution projects.
  • Internal projects include backend and distributed systems, supporting a large portfolio of 1kx investments.
  • Community contributions include “common good” projects, such as Atlas (https://atlas.1kx.io/) and others.
• Engage with the broad crypto community, build your personal network, and participate in hackathons. A moderate amount of travel is required (several times a year).
• Work closely with portfolio projects to understand their infrastructure needs and provide tailored solutions.