Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with $4B+ in assets under management and 160+ portfolio companies (see list). Our Talent team supports the recruiting efforts of the companies in our portfolio by connecting them with talented candidates. We have multiple companies actively hiring Founding Engineers across different levels and specializations.
This is not a listing for an internal role at Dragonfly. This posting connects you directly with one or more companies in our portfolio that are actively hiring, either remotely, in a hybrid model, or on-site.
What We’re Looking For:
- Built and shipped production systems supporting real users and real financial or consumer workflows where reliability mattered.
- Owned systems end-to-end, including backend services, frontend delivery, data models, and operational reliability.
- Designed and operated systems dependent on third-party infrastructure such as payments, card issuing, identity, and KYC, or other regulated services.
- Mentored or guided other engineers in high-ownership environments, even without formal management titles.
About the Role(s):
- This is a principal-level engineering role with direct influence on core platform decisions at the company’s earliest stage.
- You will work closely with the CPTO, who owns product strategy and roadmap, while you own execution, technical judgment, and the platform’s architecture, hardening, and readiness for real-world use.
- The role is focused on the areas of greatest impact. You will coordinate and provide technical leadership to early internal engineers and contractors, while directly owning critical architecture, code paths, and production systems.
- You will be highly influential in shaping the engineering team, setting the technical bar, and decision-making norms that future engineers build on.
Process:
- We’ll confidentially match you with portfolio companies aligned with your background, skill set, and interests.
- If mutual interest exists between you and a team, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction.
- If there isn’t a match today, we’ll keep you top of mind for future opportunities.
Even if you don’t match every point above but are a seasoned engineer passionate about crypto, we encourage you to apply—there may be other opportunities that fit your skill set.
Our portfolio companies are globally distributed and hiring for remote, hybrid, and in-person roles. They’re building across the entire crypto ecosystem—including DeFi, CeFi, infrastructure, L1s and L2s, creator/consumer applications, NFTs, ZK, Crypto x AI, and more.
All candidate submissions are strictly confidential.
