Staff Software Engineer, Application

About Dune

Dune is on a mission to make crypto data accessible. We’re a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform used by thousands of developers, analysts, & investors to understand the on-chain world and the frontiers of finance. We’re a team of ~50 employees,  working together across Europe and eastern US timezones 🌍️. We believe in our mission, and in building a powerful, open product that allows individuals and communities to do deep research into important ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many more. 

We’re backed by some of the world's best investors. In February 2022, we announced our Series B funding round led by Coatue and Union Square Ventures, an important milestone that allowed us to double down on our mission. We’re using the funds to educate, reward and empower a new generation of onchain analysts aka Wizards 🧙‍♀️

If you want to have one of the highest impact jobs on the planet, come join our wonderful team of Galaxy brains.

Learn more about us:

The Dune Manifesto

Dune's Vision

Values and working at Dune

Meet the team

About the role

Dune is a small team building large things. We are generalist engineers who pick up any challenges together. We like to think and design before jumping into coding. We use Typescript to build scalable systems that are easy to build upon.

As a software engineer in Dune focused on our applications, you will play a key role in ensuring a world-class experience for our users and customers on dune.com. Our application is written in Typescript, uses Next.js on the client and NodeJS on the server via GraphQL, and is hosted on Vercel and AWS, respectively.

In this role you will:

• Drive the technical vision and architecture of Dune’s applications, ensuring they align with business goals and performance metrics.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to ideate, develop, and launch robust features that enhance user interactions on Dune.

• Optimize application performance to minimize downtime and latency, ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Enhance the content browsing experience on Dune by implementing new features and improving existing ones.

• Continuously improve various personas to elevate the experience for users creating and consuming queries and dashboards.

• Write high-quality, well-tested TypeScript code focusing on scalability, maintainability, and performance.

• Mentor junior engineers, leading by example in developing clean, efficient, and reusable code.

• Champion best practices in software development, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

You might be a great fit for this role if:

• Proven experience as a back-end engineer with a strong foundation in computer science and software engineering principles.

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and drive software development cycles from inception to deployment.

• Extensive experience with cloud-based infrastructure management, specifically AWS and Kubernetes

• Extensive experience in building scalable, high-performance web applications.

• Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL, with familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as Next.js.

• Experience optimizing applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, thriving in a fully distributed team environment.

• An entrepreneurial spirit, paired with strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to software development.

Perks and Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package 🚀 The compensation for your role, both salary and equity, is top 25% of companies in the space.

• Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window

• 🏖 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you)

• 🧑‍💻 A fully remote-first approach with flexible working hours within a distributed team

• Good health is important, so we offer Dune employees private medical insurance as standard 🩺

• We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary caregivers and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule.

• Regular offsites with the team in various exciting locations (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹)

• On top of this 👆 each person gets a travel allowance to use to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days.

• Stipend for setting up your home office / co-working space

• Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet!

• And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag! ✌️😎

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Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.