Lead Engineer - Blockchain & AI (remote in Europe only)

Meta Frontier Studios (MFS) is a venture studio at the bleeding edge of AI and blockchain, operating in proven and new markets alike, where we launch 2–3 ventures per year. We’ve recently acquired Clank Fun a vibe-based token launchpad and trading platform on the Base blockchain, emphasising community-driven memecoin creation, launches, and trading.

This role is a unique opportunity to join MFS as a studio-wide Lead Engineer, with Clank Fun as your first major project. You’ll take ownership of scaling and maintaining later-stage products across our portfolio, ensuring they are production-ready and polished before spin-out. Working closely with our founding engineer, you’ll step in after initial builds to refine, stabilise, and optimise platforms, ensuring performance, security, and long-term scalability.

If you want to build in Web3 without going solo, and thrive in bringing projects from MVP to high-volume production systems, this is your chance. MFS is backed by Bifrost Studios.

1. Take over late-stage projects from initial builds, driving the finishing, scaling, and ongoing development required for spin-out readiness

2. Lead the full lifecycle of later-stage product development including feature refinement, testing, optimisation, and deployment

3. Maintain and optimise existing tech stacks across multiple ventures, ensuring high performance, security, and uptime for platforms handling high transaction volumes

4. Integrate and enhance crypto-specific functionalities, such as smart contract deployments, liquidity pool management on Uniswap, ERC-20 token handling, and AI-powered automation

5. Collaborate with the team to validate new features, run A/B tests, and incorporate user feedback from the community (e.g., via Farcaster, Telegram, and X integrations)

6. Automate monitoring, analytics, and reporting across ventures to track trading volume, user engagement, and ecosystem metrics

7. Own security audits, compliance with blockchain standards, and scalability improvements for later-stage products across the studio

5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in Web3 or blockchain projects, with proven ownership of production-ready systems.

1. Deep expertise in crypto and blockchain ecosystems – you’re not just coding; you’re immersed in DeFi, tokenomics, and L2 solutions like Base. You understand smart contracts, token standards, wallets, and protocols like Uniswap.

2. Proficiency in our core stack: Solidity, Next.js, React, Vercel hosting, and JavaScript libraries (e.g., Intersection Observer, Workbox). You’re comfortable building and maintaining serverless apps.

3. Hands-on experience with Ethereum-compatible blockchains, including deploying contracts, handling transactions, and integrating with tools like Web3.js or ethers.js

4. Strong problem-solving in messy, fast-paced environments – priorities shift with market trends, and you execute under pressure.

5. Experience maintaining platforms with social integrations (e.g., Twitter CDN, Farcaster) and analytics (e.g., Google Analytics 4, CrUX Dataset).

6. Security-focused mindset, with knowledge of best practices like HSTS, SSL by Default, and preventing common Web3 vulnerabilities.

7. Proven expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable databases, specifically with PostgreSQL, Redis, and NeonDB. Experience includes writing efficient queries, managing migrations, ensuring data integrity, and optimizing performance for high-throughput, decentralized applications.

Plus if you have:

1. Experience with AI integrations in blockchain apps, such as bots for token deployment or vibe-based trading algorithms

2. Prior work on token launchpads, memecoin platforms, or DeFi tools (e.g., similar to Pump fun on Solana)

3. Familiarity with our broader tool-stack (Notion, GitHub, Google Apps, Miro) and API development for ecosystem extensions

4. Contributions to open-source Web3 projects or personal crypto experiments

5. Comfort with community engagement, like debugging user-reported issues from X or Telegram

• A competitive salary, based on experience level
• Hybrid work culture
• Insight to early-stage ventures and the Clanker ecosystem
• A front-row seat to scaling a high-volume blockchain platform
• Work alongside one of the most connected operator-VCs in the AI/Web3 space
• Equity upside in Clank fun

The Process:

1. 30-minute screening call
2. 45-minute technical deep dive with the founder and founding engineer
3. Coding challenge & portfolio review focused on Web3 projects
4. References
5. Personality test
6. Culture Check
7. Offer & Hire