Software Engineer - Security & Infrastructure
Para is a platform that facilitates user onboarding and support throughout their crypto journey. Its cross-app embedded wallets enable transactions across apps, chains, and ecosystems with a single wallet.
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About Para
Para delivers cross-chain wallet infrastructure and authentication services for blockchain applications. The platform integrates distributed key management and secure transaction processing across multiple networks. It provides developers with APIs for wallet creation, transaction automation, and user authentication while maintaining security through multi-party computation and distributed key storage mechanisms. This company's name changed from "capsule" to "Para" in early February of 2025.
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About the Role
As a founding engineer on Para’s core team, you will own significant work across the technology stack, contribute to early technical decisions, build the main product, and help drive the company’s mission and business forward.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with significant product-critical contributions
- Experience with highly scalable and secure systems
- Systems design experience and familiarity with complex systems
- Experience building 0-to-1 products, preferably in startup environments
- Strong product sense and intuition for end-user experience and business value
- Interest in blockchain and cryptography and familiarity with crypto-powered products
- Experience with TypeScript, Go, and AWS
- Desire to work at a very early-stage startup
- Prior blockchain or applied cryptography experience, particularly with MPC-based systems
- Prior engineering leadership experience
Responsibilities
- Build secure and resilient infrastructure from the ground up
- Review code across the entire stack and engineering organization
- Participate in developing Para’s recovery product
- Influence the product roadmap and direction
- Help scale the product and team
Benefits
- Significant equity
- Significant responsibility
- Founding engineer ownership
Hiring Process
Email join@getpara.com with links to your resume and previous work, plus a bit about yourself and why you’re excited about Para.