Fountain is a product studio that incubates web3 ventures from 0 to 1. Our team combines deep technical expertise with product execution to help teams move fast, ship real value, and scale. Backed by top investors and operators in crypto, Fountain is where ambitious ideas become working products. Our current project is Ares, a trading platform.

About the Position

Introduction

Ares, the newest product under Fountain Platform, is building a high-performance social trading platform for decentralized markets. We believe trading has evolved beyond solitary activities, becoming cultural, real-time, and driven by memes, narratives, and reflexive attention loops. Ares fuses speed, signal, social mechanics, and cultural context into a unified trading experience for today's markets. At its core is a real-time intelligence layer that aggregates onchain and offchain data. We're building the next dominant trading platform where culture leads, conviction is rewarded, and traders move markets together. We are backed by top VCs and Alliance (a tier 1 crypto incubator).

This is an opportunity to help define the future of trading from the ground up for resourceful, hungry, top 1% builders who move fast and think like founders.

Responsibilities

Work directly with the CEO and have transparency into other aspects of the company.
Architect important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges via thoughtful long-term planning.
Design and implement core infrastructure across the full stack, from high-performance frontends in Next.js + Tailwind to backend systems in NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Solana RPCs.
Work on transactional engines that optimize for execution speed, accuracy, and UX under volatile, memecoin-driven conditions.
Drive the architecture of our real-time trading intelligence layer, fusing onchain and offchain signals into actionable interfaces.
Build integrations with external services (Telegram, bots, alerting engines) to power novel product experiences.
Ship fast and often; we deploy product daily and treat working code as the ultimate source of truth.
Collaborate directly with founders and a small team of senior engineers in a high-bandwidth, fast feedback loop.
Engage with early users from CT influencers to alpha groups and shape features around real workflows.
Take ownership over what you build, with freedom to make autonomous decisions and move without bureaucracy.

Requirements

Node.js backend experience, ideally in performance-sensitive environments (e.g., crypto, fintech, gaming, real-time apps).
Thrive in fast-paced, product-centric organizations where speed, autonomy, and ownership are the norm.
Ability to move independently but also communicate clearly in async workflows.
Care deeply about craft, clean abstractions, and performance.
Strong user empathy and ability to translate real behavior into real product.
Understanding of crypto and trading, and care about the details of how and why traders behave the way they do.
Desire to work with other A-players who think like founders and ship like it.

Tech Stack

Nest.js, Solana, Redis, Postgresql, Typescript, Nodejs, Materialize, gRPC, Drizzle, Websocket, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform.

Benefits

Work with a passionate team that is obsessed with product, velocity, and craft.
Ship real infrastructure used by traders and degens daily, which demands speed, precision, and performance.
Leave your mark on a product that could reshape how crypto trading is understood in the social-first, memetic era of DeFi.
Greenfield project: no legacy baggage, no bureaucratic blockers, just you, a fast team, and the freedom to build what you think should exist.
Backed by top investors and Alliance DAO, with deep ties to the best minds in DeFi.
Total flexibility: async, remote, and built for real builders who want to own their time and output.
You will be a core part of shaping the next dominant trading platform.