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About this Staff Engineer role at MetaDAO

MetaDAO · San Francisco

About MetaDAO

MetaDAO was founded to scale decision markets, a radical idea that would put markets in charge of making the world’s most important decisions.

Our flagship product is a fundraising platform that uses decision markets to mitigate fraud and misallocation risk for investors. The product is revenue-generating and profitable.

We’ve raised $12M from top-tier investors and are building an exceptional team. If you believe in the power of markets, join us.

The Role

As staff engineer, you would:

  • Build, test, and maintain production services. Our current stack uses TypeScript, Next.js, and Postgres.

  • Implement, integrate, and modify smart contracts that experience hundreds of millions of dollars of volume.

  • Drive ambitious engineering initiatives (for example, realtime data indexing at scale) from inception to completion: specification, architecture, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems, with high-quality and well-documented production code

  • 3+ years of experience with Unix systems

  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure

  • Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor

  • Ability to make informed engineering decisions based on relevant business context

  • Demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude

  • Demonstrated intellectual curiosity

Preferred

  • Experience working for venture-funded startups

  • Knowledge of capital markets, acquired either through working in finance or trading stocks and/or crypto personally

  • Proficiency in Next.js and TypeScript

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How this Staff Engineer salary compares

This role pays $325,000/yrabove the typical range for Staff Engineer roles.

$197,550 median $244,000 $348,509

Typical range $220,000–$283,500/yr, from 605 comparable Staff Engineer listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Staff Engineer salary insights →

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