Founding engineer

ResearchHub

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Worldwide Until 8/23/2026 First posted June 10, 2025 Last posted June 10, 2025
Job description

Founding engineer (remote)

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About ResearchHub

ResearchHub is an open-source scientific forum where anyone can earn the ERC-20 token, ResearchCoin, for sharing, discussing, and curating academic research. Our mission is to build a community and set of products focused on accelerating the pace of scientific research.

About the role

Location: remote

Core technologies used: Django / React / Solidity / Postgres

Lead development of ResearchHub's web application and Ethereum smart contracts, build a high-quality engineering team, and help set the product vision as a founding team member. Responsibilities will include:

  • Developing new features for ResearchHub's web application
  • Taking ownership of engineering decisions that align with product roadmap
  • Contributing to the cryptoeconomic structure of RSC rewards
  • Post-product-market fit, hiring an excellent engineering team and setting the foundation of a great engineering culture
  • Creating scalable organizational processes to ensure we ship high-quality code as the team grows

Must have:

  • Experience build scalable, testable, high-quality web and mobile apps
  • Experience building high-quality engineering teams
  • Excellent communication skills both in writing and verbally. Concise, clear, kind
  • Humble, optimistic, high energy, and inspiring

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Django and React
  • Experience building mobile apps with React Native
  • Experience writing smart contracts and with Solidity
About this role

Summary

Lead development of web app, smart contracts, build engineering team, set product vision.

Job title

Founding engineer

Experience level

senior level

Industry

software

Location requirements

remote work allowed for worldwide candidates.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

web applicationteam buildingcommunication

Preferred skills

djangoreactreact nativesolidity

Specializations

web developmentsmart contractsethereumreactdjango
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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Remote