Arun Kirubarajan, Co-Founder & CTO
It’s no secret that it’s a developer’s market right now. We’re coming out of stealth and are excited to throw ourselves into the mix as well! It’s only been a year since I was an engineer on the unusually hot market evaluating my options, so I like to think that we have a strong case for why Magna is your next personal rocket ship.
Let’s break it down. I’ll keep it short.
As an early engineer you’re making a bet that a startup will succeed. This isn’t professional advice, but I’d say this company is pretty close to a sure thing!
In just a few months our company has:
Shipped multiple full-stack products (with awesome feature sets at launch)
Onboarded tens of millions of tokens on Solana
Developed highly performant Ethereum smart contracts
Raised a very oversubscribed funding round from a slew of heavy-hitter angels and venture capital firms (established VCs, up and coming , true degens…. you name it)
Maintained a waitlist of over 100 companies trying to use us and 200 investors trying to invest/partner with us 😎
We know our problem space very well: our CEO has invested in over 75 companies as an angel, including multiple unicorns and I’ve spent the last few years focused on building tools for portfolio management.
Our team has also:
Won multiple hackathons during the “golden era”
Worked as engineers at cool places (Palantir, Bloomberg, Carta, Citadel etc.)
Taught university-level computer science classes
Held multiple patents in international security/defense
Published machine learning papers in top journals
Founded and scaled companies to unicorn ($1B+) status
We’re at every hacker house, every web3 conference, and every degen programming session putting our product in the hands of users. Our team is here to win, and to have fun doing so!
I love the openness and transparency of web3, but it’s not the reason I’m personally working in the space. It’s because there are deep technical challenges that reward builders.
The blockchain isn’t just a distributed ledger anymore, it’s a distributed state machine. At Magna, we’re not just building a new paradigm of software — we’re also trying to leverage the best of web2 while we’re at it. It’s amazing fun if you’re a developer who’s new to web3 and able to appreciate a lot of beautiful technical-first design decisions for the first time. (Have you ever tried to match a CUSIP number before??? It’s painful.)
We’re working on crazy open-ended things such as
Blockchain indexers (we’re basically a mini Google)
Clever gas optimizations (which as it turns out is super fun)
UX patterns for blockchain interactions (surprisingly missing in web3)
We’re a highly technical team and most of our company writes code. We realize there’s more to being a great engineer than picking off tickets and implementing them: we do a lot of side projects just to have fun and learn cool things. It helps us blow off steam and stay creative!
Our goal: have fun building and have fun winning. My favourite thing we do is have weekly meme cleansers where we make memes of funny engineering things that happened throughout the week:
We like to think we’re academics too. We have little “experiments” that we run to try to innovate our day-to-day. This is why we have no meeting Wednesdays, so everybody is free to do their best work on their own time. We also always own up when we were wrong and credit is always given where its due (even if you’re on the humble side 🙂).
Our hiring motto is “don’t hire the navy; hire the navy seals”. We plan to hire only a few world class engineers and adapt our working culture to suit your needs. ****We’re a team of winners and we compensate like it too — when Magna wins, you do too.
So what do you think? We’re hiring like crazy trying to meet our product’s demand and we’re looking for talented engineers to cover any all of the stack.
Email me at arun@magna.so with your favourite animal and we’ll take it from there.
Do you have somebody in mind that you think would be great? We offer a 15,000 USD referral bonus to help us find our new teammates!