Head of Engineering

About Bebop

Bebop is a decentralized trading platform that aims to deliver a step-change user experience to trading on DeFi.

We believe that DeFi is the future of finance facilitating true innovation, economic freedom and ability to create the best financial products. At Bebop, we are on a mission to make superior trading products with efficient execution available to anyone. This means that we will only offer products and features that make sense. We will be driven by the best practices of user experience with user-centric design at the heart of everything we do, making products fun and easy to use. And we will work relentlessly and leverage our deepest expertise to bring the most efficient execution with transparent fees.

Bebop was born and incubated at Wintermute, one of the largest trading companies in crypto and a leading liquidity powerhouse in DeFi.

Learn more about bebop at bebop.xyz, Twitter, Discord and Medium.

Working for Bebop

At Bebop you will be in charge of delivering high-performance, scalable and beautiful web3 applications. You will lead the engineering team, design back-end and front-end architecture, write and release top quality code and refine DevOps practices. You will push the boundaries by delivering technical innovation in blockchain space. You will use your best entrepreneurial instincts to make technology choices that drive business growth.

Hard Skills Requirements

• Strong experience designing, delivering and scaling b2c applications for millions of users across all platforms.
• Strong experience in financial technology, preferably having understanding of the functionality and engineering aspects of Web3 tooling
• Evidence of building and developing high-performance development teams
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node as well as experience in developing smart contracts in either Solidity, Rust, Scilla etc. - this could include personal projects as well!
• Excellent communication skills coupled with a strong passion for DeFi; constantly keeping up to date with new developments in the industry.
• A Computer Science background or similar.

Nice to have Requirements

• Python knowledge is a strong plus, but not mandatory
• Appreciation for jazz :)

Bebop Offer

• A unique opportunity to work on a startup from zero to one with all the impact of early employees, while having a reliable backing (financial, technological and business expertise) from one of the industry’s top players
• An amazing culture, defined as ambitious, knowledgeable and fun.
• Work flexibility: while we have location preferences for our hubs (New York, London, Singapore, Sydney), we are open to remote candidates globally