Compute Engineering Lead
HEX is a decentralized, blockchain-based cryptocurrency and smart contract protocol that allows users to 'mine' rewards by locking (staking) their HEX tokens for a chosen period of time, with longer commitments yielding larger rewards. It operates on Ethereum and PulseChain with no central entity, middlemen, or minimums, and serves individual crypto holders and investors seeking yield through time-locked staking.
Projects
About HEX
HEX presents itself as a finished, immutable, unstoppable smart contract that has undergone three independent audits from top blockchain auditors. It has no central entity or middlemen — users mint their own rewards by running code to lock their HEX tokens for a period ranging from 1 to 5555 days, then minting the rewards afterward, with longer commitments and larger stakes rewarding higher yields ('Longer Pays Better'). The protocol touts a capped inflation rate of 3.69% and a publicly viewable future locked-supply schedule so users can anticipate large miners' unlock events. HEX operates on both Ethereum and PulseChain, and users interact with it via MetaMask wallets, acquiring PLS on PulseChain and swapping for HEX via PulseX, then mining/minting rewards through go.hex.com. The site markets itself toward individual retail crypto investors interested in long-term, high-yield staking of a decentralized asset, citing dramatic historical price appreciation as a selling point.
Skills
About the Role
You will be tasked with tackling one of the most critical challenges: performance. Users love Hex's feature-rich platform that enables complex data applications, but they need everything to execute faster. You'll lead efforts to evolve the compute architecture while maintaining the flexibility and power that makes Hex special. You'll guide a team of experts to shape performance investments, build a more solid foundation, and drive towards an ambitious vision where performance becomes a key differentiator for Hex in the market. This role will be hybrid, with 2-3 days per week in the New York City office.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working on highly technical projects
- 2+ years of management or tech lead-manager experience
- Experience working with and managing remote teams
- Experience skillfully managing performance and systems projects, optimizing for testing, measurement, and incremental progress
- An infectious excitement to make things go VROOM
- An inexhaustible desire to understand where every millisecond of time could be going
- Highly technical with the ability to understand architecture at a level that earns the respect of the team
- Deeply informed on industry trends around data processing, databases, and performant data architectures
- Excellent product understanding; can break user problems into their technical and product components
- Strong communicator who builds understanding across team roadmaps and prioritizes for business outcomes
- Ability to grow and attract exceptional, creative talent while driving concrete outcomes
Responsibilities
- Design and implement an architecture intentionally built for multimodal workflows that maintains what users love about Hex while delivering optimal performance across all data scales
- Map performance bottlenecks in detail and lead the team in consistently delivering measurable improvements
- Establish data-driven north star metrics to quantify performance targets and measure progress
- Deliver large projects incrementally with smooth customer rollouts while maintaining a high execution bar
- Create the right abstraction layers that enable teams to divide and conquer performance problems with clear guarantees
- Integrate compute investments with other teams' plans to multiply the impact of new product development
- Collaborate with field teams to position the unique architecture as a selling point against competitors
- Inspire confidence throughout the company in the compute direction and articulate why it matters
Benefits
- Market-benched salary & equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible paid time off