Decent
Enabling fans to invest in artists & share in their success.
Location
Los Angeles, New York, or San Francisco / Remote
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About the role
ABOUT DECENT
Decent is a trading platform and infrastructure that enables artists to batch mint NFTs actually collateralized by royalties. The platform puts artists and fans on the same team to enable funding, marketing, and discovery. The founding team is composed of Princeton & Brown graduates with deep experience in music, crypto, and business. We’re also supported by advisors including but not limited to: CEO of Bento Box & Blockchain Creative Labs, Founder of Lava Records, and one of the Founding Engineers at Uniswap.
We have signed up an initial cohort of artists (with more than 500K Instagram followers & 8M Spotify monthly listeners) and released our first drop and beta platform on December 9, which sold out in 3 minutes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for an experienced full stack engineer to help take the platform from 0 to 1. We’re passionate about the Ethereum and music ecosystems, and ideal candidates are those excited to push the boundaries of current realities in each industry.
The next couple months at Y Combinator will be spent building a protocol to bring royalties on chain and standing up an NFT marketplace. From there, we hope you can help us shape music’s corner of the metaverse, leveraging our initial NFTs to build communities around Decent artists.
Since the platform is still nascent, you will also inform product decisions, acting as a Product Manager and UX Researcher on occasion. This role has the potential to become leadership positions (e.g., Head of Product, Head of Eng) in the next 3-6 months, as Decent continues to grow.
We are closing a pre-seed round prior to YC (begins January 10, 2022), led by an all-star crew of investors, so are in a position to offer competitive salaries and equity incentive plans.
ABOUT YOU
First & foremost, we’re looking for entrepreneurial candidates who are excited to tackle novel challenges each day and motivated by the vision of reinventing the music industry via web3.
First & foremost, we’re looking for entrepreneurial candidates who are excited to tackle novel challenges each day and motivated by the vision of reinventing the music industry via web3.
Ideal skills for Front-End Engineer hires: Proficient with full-stack web development (React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Solidity – requirement for full stack), BS in Computer Science or similar field of study, and 2+ years of experience building decentralized applications (internships & independent projects included!)
(Even if this doesn’t sound like you right now, throw in an application anyway – we’d love to stay in touch and are excited by unique backgrounds!)
Why you should join Decent
Decent is a trading platform and infrastructure that enables artists to batch mint NFTs actually collateralized by royalties. The platform puts artists and fans on the same team to enable funding, marketing, and discovery.
The founding team is composed of Princeton & Brown graduates with deep experience in music, crypto, and business. We’re also supported by advisors including but not limited to: CEO of Bento Box & Blockchain Creative Labs, Founder of Lava Records, and one of the Founding Engineers at Uniswap.
We have signed up an initial cohort of artists (with more than 500K Instagram followers & 8M Spotify monthly listeners) and released our first drop and beta platform on December 9, which sold out in 3 minutes.
