Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Alliance is a selective accelerator and founder community for crypto and fintech startups. It provides funding, mentorship, founder connections, fundraising support, and resources to help startups reach product-market fit and scale.
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About Alliance
Alliance operates a boutique startup accelerator based in New York City, selecting promising founders three times per year. It provides $400,000 upon admission plus a $400,000 follow-on investment at seed, domain-specific mentorship, lectures, weekly check-ins, community access, founder perks, recruiting support, fundraising introductions, and Demo Day opportunities. Its alumni community includes more than 700 crypto and fintech founders, and its portfolio spans payments, stablecoins, trading, DeFi, infrastructure, and related technologies.
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About the Role
Join Alliance's in-house engineering team and own features across discovery, design, implementation, launch, and iteration. Build production-grade TypeScript applications with React, Next.js, and Node.js; develop internal tools; ship across founder and public-facing products; integrate third-party APIs; and improve engineering quality, reliability, CI/CD, and accessibility.
Requirements
- Product-minded builder able to turn ambiguous problems into shipped software without a dedicated PM or designer.
- Deep experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js; Next.js and Postgres or Prisma familiarity are beneficial.
- Strong UX/UI taste and ability to sketch flows or lightweight wireframes before coding.
- Hands-on individual contributor with strong ownership, prioritization, speed, and attention to detail.
- Highly autonomous, entrepreneurial, and self-driven.
- Comfortable using modern AI tools to work faster.
- Based in NYC or willing to relocate to NYC.
Responsibilities
- Own products and features end to end from discovery through production.
- Write production-grade TypeScript across the stack using React, Next.js, and Node.js.
- Build and maintain internal tools that accelerate the team.
- Ship features across external sites, the Space founder portal, and public marketing surfaces.
- Craft polished UIs with React and contribute components and patterns to the internal component library.
- Integrate authentication, payments, and email APIs while managing data models, caching, and performance.
- Improve engineering quality through code reviews, CI/CD, reliability, and accessibility.
Benefits
- Work with ambitious crypto and AI founders and learn from hundreds of startups.
- Join a small, high-trust, high-performance team with outsized impact.
- Work alongside experienced leaders and teammates from companies including Meta, WhatsApp, Coinbase, and YC.
- Direct ownership and visibility over work shaping how founders discover Alliance.
- Career acceleration through experience and network in crypto and AI.
- Front-row exposure to startups reinventing industries such as media and payments.
