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.