Forward Deployed Engineer
Axiom helps DeFi traders execute transactions by providing a comprehensive non-custodial trading platform.
Funding history
About Axiom
Axiom helps DeFi users trade memecoins, perpetuals, and earn yield by providing integrated access to multiple DeFi protocols. With it, users can execute rapid trades, avoid MEV attacks, and track wallet activity, all from a single platform. Axiom reduces fragmentation in the DeFi ecosystem through a unified interface.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design compelling product demos and execute pilots to help customers integrate OpenVM and the Axiom Proving API into their products. You will customize OpenVM for user needs, own technical customer relationships, and ensure successful product impact. You will work across the full stack—shipping frontend and backend code using Python, TypeScript, or similar—and deploy applications with Kubernetes and Terraform. You will communicate complex technical topics clearly to customers, make pragmatic engineering decisions, and shape the product roadmap by relaying customer needs.
Requirements
- Strong track record of shipping full-stack products across frontend and backend using Python, TypeScript, or comparable stacks
- Familiarity with deploying applications using Kubernetes and Terraform
- Clear communication and relationship-building skills
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and strong bias toward action
- Extremely strong work ethic
- Experience selling a product or doing customer-facing work (bonus)
- Experience with cryptography or blockchain engineering (bonus)
- Proficiency in Rust (bonus)
- Proficiency in C (bonus)
- Proficiency in C++ (bonus)
- Proficiency in Go (bonus)
Responsibilities
- Design product demos
- Execute pilots
- Integrate OpenVM and the Axiom Proving API into customer products
- Customize OpenVM for user needs
- Own technical customer relationships
- Shape product roadmap by communicating customer needs
- Ship full-stack frontend and backend products
- Deploy applications using Kubernetes and Terraform
Benefits
- Equity
