Lead Product engineer

🚀 Founding product engineer - NodeJS / NestJS / MongoDB/ Blockchain / AIType: Full-time.Compensation: Competitive with meaningful equity/token upside🧬 Who We AreWe're Airavat — an AI-powered trading platform that integrates crypto, prediction markets, market intelligence, and agentic automation into a simple, easy-to-use conversational interface.Our mission: to democratize access to crypto and powerful trading tools, whether you're a long-term investor or a high-frequency scalper. We're combining real trading infrastructure with cutting-edge AI to give every user an edge.🎯 The OpportunityJoin us as a founding product engineer — not just a developer, but a builder who thinks in terms of product, UX, and outcomes. You’ll work across systems and interfaces, but you’ll also influence what gets built, why, and how fast it ships.This isn’t a job for someone who only wants Jira tickets. It’s a role for someone who:Wants to help define the product, not just implement it.Has a sixth sense for what’s “good enough to ship” vs “must be rock solid.”Wants the challenge of owning a live trading system that real people use and trust.🧰 What You Bring (Required Skills)Ideally, 4+ years in hands-on, full-time software engineering roles.Strong full-stack skills, especially across the MERN and Python/FastAPI stacks.Proven experience designing and building backend APIs, scalable services, and polished UIs.Real-world experience with Blockchain/Crypto systems — ideally working with node APIs, smart contracts, or exchange flows.Solid grasp of systems architecture: You can model tradeoffs, cache intelligently, and reason about data consistency, failure states, and latency.You ship with craftsmanship and care: logging, tests, devops awareness, and proper config are part of your definition of done.You're already AI-augmented: You fluently use tools like GPT, Claude, Cursor, Agents, or Replit to accelerate coding, testing, and problem-solving.🌟 Bonus Points (Nice-to-Haves)Experience with NestJS or structured back-end frameworks.Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, RAG pipelines, and OpenAI APIs.Built or managed Telegram bots using frameworks like GrammyJS.Experience with Hugging Face, Groq/Together, OpenLlama and associated frameworks.Have shipped at least one consumer-facing product to a large or real audience.Can point to apps, bots, tools, or open-source work you’ve led or contributed to.Familiarity with AI agent frameworks or building your own task orchestration logic.Prior experience managing / mentoring junior engineers.🧠 Mindset We’re Looking ForYou might be a great fit if you:Are a product-minded engineer: You think deeply about what users want, and you often suggest product improvements before anyone asks.Take a long-term view: You’re looking to grow with a team and vision — not bounce from gig to gig.Have a bias for ownership: You don't need tight specs. You’re capable of scoping, architecting, and executing features independently.Are multipurpose: Infra, bots, prompt flows, smart contract interaction — you’re ready to wear multiple hats.Move with urgency: You want to outpace the market, not just keep up.Care about purpose and outcomes, not just completing tasks.Are genuinely interested in Crypto, DeFi, trading, or AI systems — or better, all of them.Use AI not as a gimmick, but as an integral part of your day-to-day engineering process.Understand what it means to balance shipping with quality: not gold-plating, not cutting corners — just doing things smart and fast.💰 What You GetFounding engineer status with direct impact on both product and company.The opportunity to grow with the organization. No role is off limits.Competitive market salary.Early equity/token upside with long-term comp potential.A career-defining opportunity to build something from scratch — without red tape.Autonomy and influence across product, technical architecture, and user experience.A highly aligned founder and mission-first environment, where speed and craftsmanship are equally respected.