What is Noise?

People want to be informed and entertained. Great products make the two inseparable.

Noise is a platform to discover and trade trends. Combining real-time attention data from the top social media platforms and perpetual futures, we’re building a single app to see how much mindshare something has based on people buying and selling around the world.

It’s a hard problem. Pricing attention, modeling order flow, abstracting UX complexity — Noise is unique in its approach to consumer trading. If you’ve ever been obsessed with market design, or wondered how attention becomes an asset, this may be a powerful mission for you.

To learn more, follow us on X or visit our website.

Working at Noise

A little bit about our team:

• Six full-time employees based in the US

• Fully in-person in NYC

• Everyone either ships code, designs, or talks to users

Our Values

• Build in the Unknown: We have no interest in iterating on what already exists. Our goal is to create a new type of financial service centered around invention, not optimization.

• The Best Products Teach People What They Want: Like the best music or technology, the most valuable ideas feel obvious in hindsight. We're designing from first principles and betting on our ability to see what others don’t.

• No Passengers: Everyone at Noise — engineers, designers, marketers — is in the room, in New York City. We’re a small team moving fast with care and intensity. We solve hard problems together. You do not need permission to try new things.

Role

As a Blockchain Engineer at Noise, you will build features that will enable new financial primitives on attention as an asset class. You will be a crucial part of our Core Product team and spearhead the design and implementation of our core smart contracts and backend infrastructure to unlock the simplest markets for users to trade on. We believe in fast iterations and feedback loops, and we’re looking for engineers who can support us with shipping robust and performant code.

Ideal candidate should satisfy the following:

Must Haves:

• Proficient experience in DeFi Smart Contracts related to perpetuals, options, or CLOBs on a live protocol with active users

• 4+ years of backend development experience using Rust/Java (preferred), or any modern server-side language

• Interest and passion for building secure, robust, scalable infrastructure

• Familiarity with database internals and high performance database systems

• Culture fit for startups with good work ethic

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work cross-functionally

• Ability to take initiative and ownership of large, business-critical projects with minimal oversight and direction

Nice to Haves:

• Deep understanding of smart contract best practices and current industry patterns

• High-level and low-level system design skills

• Experience in software parallelization, including but not limited to optimistic concurrency and operation pipelining

• Hands-on experience in cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Expertise in building production-grade APIs

• Contributions to open source crypto projects

Our Tech Stack

• Design: Figma

• Frontend: React (Typescript), Vite, TailwindCSS

• Backend: Rust, Java

• Research: Python, Pytorch

• Infrastructure: AWS, Cloudflare

• Smart Contracts: Solidity, Foundry, Slither

How Applying Works

1. Intro & Behavioral Call — 45 minute chat with one of the founders

2. Technical Virtual Onsite — Live technical screening including 1 coding and 1 system design

3. Reference Checks — Share 2-3 references of previous supervisors you’ve worked with

4. Comp Review — 30 minutes chat with one of the founders to go over the offer

Compensation

To attract the best people, our goal is to provide competitive cash compensation and high upside in the long-term success of Noise. Equity options are subject to the same four-year schedule as the rest of the team.