a16z is hiring a

Member of Technical Staff, Crypto

Member of Technical Staff, Crypto

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has $19.2B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $1.4B Bio funds, the $3.1B Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.

We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process. We’ve invested in companies like Celo, Coinbase, Compound, Dfinity, Diem, Maker, and OpenSea. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping entrepreneurs and their companies impact and change the world.

The Role

As a Member of Technical Staff at a16z Crypto, you will focus on architecting, building, and operating internal systems to interact with numerous crypto technologies in an easy, scalable, and safe way. These systems span across secure infrastructure, interactions with smart contracts, to whatever web3 inventions come next – it is a unique opportunity to work with up and coming crypto technologies as they come into existence and scale.

The Member of Technical Staff will work closely with a16z Crypto's investment and operation teams to design and build systems that enable native interactions with protocols. We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff with a strong engineering background along with a passion for crypto (though not necessarily a lot of experience in the space). This role will report to the CTO of a16z Crypto.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Build and cultivate long-term relationships
• Design and implement systems and processes to enable the firm to interact with new crypto technologies in novel ways
• Research new crypto protocols and technologies to become an early subject-matter expert on the engineering side
• Contribute to internal infrastructure and engineering practices for making the next system integration easier, safer, and more featureful
• Work closely with IT and security teams to ensure systems are operational and secure while achieving business objectives

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong background in computer science and engineering (formal degree not required)
• Relevant multi-year work or academic experience in software engineering or related fields such as security engineering, software infrastructure, data engineering, etc.
• Experience with programming languages (like Python, C, Rust, Go, etc.) popular for systems programming. Smart contract languages are a bonus!
• Passion for engineering quality on both building new systems and improving existing ones: testing infrastructure and methodologies, code hygiene, change review
• Demonstrated skills in gathering business requirements and incorporating them into novel system design
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new technologies

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