Design Engineer

Design Engineer

Company: Recurrent Labs [Currents]

Location: Oakland, CA

Type: Full-time

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Our team of 5 is seeking a core Engineer with a Design background to join at our HQ in Oakland.

You’ll be joining a cross-disciplinary tq/bipoc team that is building a protocol for dense community-owned distribution networks to emerge between Artists and Listeners.

🔊 It’s like an update to RSS, but with more bass. [letter ca. 2022]

We are in stealth, but previously launched the largest decentralized digital music event in history and are actively working with music communities in more than 100 countries.

Role and Responsibilities:

At Currents, you'll be responsible for bringing the first protocol for decentralized distribution networks from design to production.

This will involve collaborating with our Design team and our Artist users to design scalable, reliable systems that serve our worldwide grassroots communities.

• Design and develop effective and minimal UI, working with our userbase to iterate and improve the Artist experience. balancing quality with time and need-based constraints and requirements. We use Typescript integrating a functional approach (fp-ts, etc).
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design, validate, and implement new mechanisms that crystallize the economic patterns behind art and music.
• Engage in all phases of software development - from conception and design to testing and deployment. Work directly with our userbase of Artists and Listeners.

What you Bring

• You’re an experienced frontend designer with a deep interest in systems and invisible UX. You are energized by collaborating with other designers and engineers.
• You’re well versed in Typescript and familiar with a functional approach to development (fp-ts, etc), with at least 5 years’ experience in the industry.
• You have experience leading startup teams through end-to-end product development, validating and building iteratively from first-principles.
• You have the ability to quickly assess large, amorphous problems by actively seeking context. You understand that it's never idealism vs. reality, but both.
• You collaborate with a human-centered perspective and an exacting attention to detail in the products that you work on. You speak fluently with designers and engineers alike.
• You obsessively like to get involved in things. You’re constantly reading and researching and sharing new findings with friends.
• Whether they're creative pursuits, side hustles, or hobbies, you're constantly learning about the world through the act of creation.

A Strong Plus

• Experience in media and media streaming development
• Experience with web3 infrastructure and frameworks
• Experience scaling products from zero to one
• Experience with distributed systems design
• Experience and passion for music, and/or as a creative