Who we are

<aside> 📌 Skip builds great products that help developers deliver best-in-class blockchain applications to their users more easily. We’re dedicated to making all blockchains more accessible and more powerful so everyone can participate in the trustless web without limits.

We work with the best teams building blockchains in crypto: dYdX, Celestia, Osmosis, Neutron/LIDO, and many more. Our products help developers secure, swap, and transfer millions of dollars of tokens every day.

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We’re a Series A company based in NYC, and we’re looking to finish building out our core team.

We focus on hiring the core team and senior talent to work together in person in NYC to build a collaborative and supportive culture. But we’re still open to hiring best-in-class remote talent anywhere within 6 hours of the NYC timezone.

Core team member responsibilities

  1. Work to solve hard technical problems at the cutting edge of blockchain research alongside the founders.
  2. Be empowered to make bold technical and strategic decisions.
  3. Play a critical role in determining the people we hire, our culture, our engineering practices, and the products we ship.

How we work

  1. We value ambition, work ethic, and m (slope) over prestige, accomplishments, and y-intercept.
  2. We value thoughtful and contentious dialogue over siloed and unilateral decision-making.
  3. We value acknowledging uncertainty/weakness and seeking support over unabated confidence and solo performances.
  4. We’re obsessive about documenting everything, learning, and shipping as fast as possible.

Benefits

🏋️ Fitness stipend

✈️ 18 days of paid leave

🧑‍⚕️ Premium health insurance

🏦 Competitive regional compensation and above-market equity ownership

📁 Office space and accommodations for remote work

<aside> 👉 We’re open to arranging paid work trials with potential hires because we think interviews give a very limited view of candidates and the company.

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Job openings

🙇‍♂️ On the Founders

Barry and Mag are technical and product-oriented founders.

They built and deployed the initial MVP of Skip and come from engineering, finance, and product backgrounds. They have and will continue to take an active role in developing and researching Skip as it scales.

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Barry Plunkett (Barry)
Barry recently spent time at DE Shaw’s venture studio team, where he focused on building new startups 0-1. While there, he led product for a residential real estate start-up (usezenden.com, retired), then led a commercial open source package manager built on Nix (floxdev.com, active) from idea phase through a $9m seed phase. Prior to that, he performed award-winning reinforcement learning for negotiation automation while in undergrad.

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Maghnus Mareneck (Mag)
Maghnus started building in Crypto in 2016. He co-founded and was CTO at an early NFT marketplace (Cent.co, the team behind the $2.8m first tweet sold as an NFT). Previously at Bridgewater’s Investment Logic Engineering arm and Product @Atlassian where he worked on Confluence. He graduated with two degrees in CS and Economics from Penn. Massive NFT degen, and lover of everything LOTR!