Rust Backend Engineer

Join me, another Rust engineer, as Positron builds PrizeForge.com, open sourcing supply & demand, starting with consumer & B2B open source software. We have clear plans to scale our solution up to multiple hundreds of billions USD in revenue. We will power all sorts of open technology development that needs to happen but cannot happen today due to an inability to connect demand for downstream value creation to upstream enabling technologies.

Check out our product claims. Our company site possibly has more updated listings.

This is a very early stage position. We are rugged, lean, and powered by determination. An appetite for risk, ambition, and working on new things are necessary and will pay off.

Skills Needed

The work that needs to be done is similar to social media and marketplace platforms. We're using Rust, Leptos, NATS, Postgres, hosted on GCP.

We will use automated summarization and translation in addition to some recommendation techniques, which should satisfy career goals to utilize emerging AI technologies.

Employment Style

We're currently raising capital and about to deliver our first prototype. We will soon have regular salary positions in addition to options to come in as a co-founder.

Co-founder positions are higher risk, mostly compensated through equity until we raise capital or grow enough revenue, but you can start immediately and have much higher potential reward. Previous experience with early stage and familiarity with startup management and bootstrapping very imature products are beneficial.

If your compensation preference is salary, the employee relationship is best. Employee positions receive stock options, which have somewhat worse rights in the preference stack in adverse scenarios such as "pay-to-play" down rounds. We can only hire full-salaried employees in limited circumstances, so prepare to wait.

The equity arrangement will be completely standard, four-year vesting with a one-year cliff. I and other co-founders must maintain tight incentive alignment at all times. Performance will be rewarded. People who add value to the company will be treated right to uphold our value proposition for doing good work.

Experience Required

Because our platform involves some new ideas, extremely talented fresh graduates with considerable project work can work out well. We have limited time to train. We can only hire about one junior worker per experienced worker, and expect to be delegated work that is repetetive to save seniors time. You will gain experience fast. By becoming an expert at our toolchain, your limited experience will deliver more value to us and allow us to promote quickly if you are relatively successful.

Culture

This is an international-first company that happens to be located in South Korea. It's better if you can speak Korean, but not a requirement. Most engineers speak decent English. Operations and other administrative roles are more likely to resemble other Korean companies.

한국어로 괜찮습니다. 저희는 글로벌 우선 문화를 만들어내게겠습니다.

As a startup, we have the freedom to go our own way and create a place we want to work at. Some Korean culture will find a place, but less popular aspects will be allowed to disappear.

Company retreats will likely include snowboarding in Hokkaido and at Phoenix Park. Company dinners will perhaps be less professional, as is standard in Korea, but not required. Absolutely no mandatory "team-building" hiking ☻

Location

Our location is somewhat flexible. I'm willing to work with people anywhere Japan and South Korea. Currently I'm in Busan but may relocate to Seoul at any time. USA and Europe will eventually be in the picture, but let's try to stay in one timezone for now.