ericfj

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hey thanks for the warm welcome
I'm familiar with AGORA ;) - we'd love if you joined us and made it a NIP-99 / Gamma Markets Nostr marketplace

jobs

Conduit builds merchant and shopper tools on Bitcoin, Nostr, and open protocols so people can trade online without gatekeepers or data-mining.

We’re hiring a **hands-on** founding infrastructure engineer as a true cofounder. You’ll make Conduit reliable, secure, and private by design.

**What you’ll own**
- **Core backend & infrastructure.** You’ll design and run the services that power merchant tools and consumer flows, working closely with our CTO (Acea).
- **Logins and keys done right.** Build and maintain secure login, key management, delegation, and recovery that's simple to use, hard to misuse.
- **Secure enclaves for merchants.** Deploy critical merchant tooling inside trusted execution environments (e.g., Intel SGX, AWS Nitro Enclaves) with remote verification so counterparties can trust how code runs.
- **Uptime and visibility.** Set clear availability goals, add meaningful logs/metrics/tracing, and keep on-call practical. You’ll ensure our code and operations actually match our Terms and Privacy Policy.
- **Payments that just work.** Integrate Lightning payments via well-supported providers and Nostr Wallet Connect–compatible services. Keep options open; avoid lock-in.
- **Safe releases.** Ship changes with staged rollouts and fast rollback paths so upgrades don’t break merchant businesses.
- **Security posture that grows with us.** Build toward SOC 2 readiness (access control, auditability, least privilege, incident process) while staying lean.


**What we’re looking for**
- You’ve built and operated backend systems with real uptime expectations and learned from incidents.
- Strong track record with secure systems: isolation, secrets, key handling, and practical threat modeling.
- Hands-on with trusted execution (SGX, Nitro, or similar) and comfortable proving what runs where.
- Solid experience with identity: auth flows, recovery, delegated actions, and sane defaults.
- You can integrate payments reliably and choose vendors pragmatically without painting us into a corner.
- You care about observability (the non-dystopian kind), testing, and boring correctness as much as speed.
- Curiosity (or experience) with Nostr and Bitcoin and a bias for shipping.
- You communicate clearly to non-technical stakeholders, partner well with frontend, and write things down.

*Language/runtime agnostic. If you’ve shipped production services in any of Go, Rust, TypeScript/Node, or Python (and can justify your picks) we’re listening.*

**What we offer**
- True cofounder equity (5–10%+ for the right person), standard vesting; real influence on direction.
- Milestone bonuses paid in Bitcoin for critical deliverables.
- Part-time to start (up to ~10 hrs/week, deliverable-based), with a clear path to full-time after our seed.
- A chance to help set a privacy-first standard for online commerce.

**Who we are**
- **Team:** operator who’s built from zero to seven-figure profit, an enterprise-scale CTO, a Bitcoin/fintech designer, and a scaler who’s taken products like Polymarket from first users to global adoption.
- **Mission:** We are a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to spread financial inclusion and censorship-resistant commerce globally. We’re looking for partners who share that mission
- **Funding:** active seed with serious, mission-aligned partners.

Reach out to ericfj@conduitbtc.com with your CV and links to previous projects. **Send me a NIP-17 DM on Nostr to get to the front of the line.**

*Please take time to explore our site and current writings at https://conduit.market and let me know WHY this mission matters to you too. I look forward to connecting with you.*

Founding Infrastructure Engineer / Cofounder

Co-founder / CEO @ https://conduit.market

Let’s build the Bitcoin circular economy together. I want to connect with you if you’re on a similar mission.

https://primal.net/EricFJ
https://njump.me/npub10xvczstpwsljy7gqd2cselvrh5e6mlerep09m8gff87avru0ryqsg2g437

Conduit is a mission-driven startup at the intersection of Bitcoin, Nostr, and decentralized commerce. We’re building tools that empower merchants and shoppers to transact freely across open protocols, without gatekeepers.

We’re looking for a **Frontend Engineer** with a sharp eye for detail who can bring our world-class designs to life. You’ll be the bridge between concept and product... turning Figma screens into polished, responsive, and performant experiences.

**What we need from you:**
- Strong skills in modern frontend frameworks (React/Vite/TypeScript preferred)
- Obsessive attention to detail and a high bar for magical user experiences
- Comfort working in a lean startup environment
- Familiarity with working as part of an engineering team
- Comfort writing and maintaining frontend e2e + unit tests
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline deployment
- Ability to leverage LLM assisted development tools WITHOUT losing quality or ownership of delivered code (pre-AI coding experience preferred)
- Interest in Bitcoin, Nostr, and open protocols (or curiosity to learn)
- Commitment of 10 hours per week until funding, and willingness to move into a full time role after our seed round is closed

**What we offer:**
- Equity-first arrangement (part-time) while we close our seed round.
- Milestone-based bonuses in Bitcoin for outstanding deliverables.
- A path to a full-time salaried role once funding is secured.
- Direct impact in shaping the new paradigm of online commerce.
- A mission-driven, principled team that values openness, privacy, and user sovereignty.

If you’re motivated by building something bigger than yourself and want to help architect the economic infrastructure of the future we’d love to talk.

Reach out to ericfj@conduitbtc.com with your CV and links to previous projects. **Send me a NIP-17 DM on Nostr to get to the front of the line.**

*Please take time to explore our site and current writings at https://conduit.market and let us know WHY this mission matters to you too. I look forward to connecting with you.*