Coastal Recruiting - Engineering Candidate Spotlight, April 5

Happy Friday everyone - welcome to Coastal Recruiting’s weekly candidate recap - highlighting the top engineers we’re working with across the stack. Our sole focus is helping build engineering teams for VC-backed teams, focusing on AI/ML, blockchain, fintech and enterprise/consumer SaaS. Coming off an epic off-site last week - vibes are high, faces were sunburnt, and T1 candidate flow keeps on growing. 

Without further ado, peep the profiles below! Pass this along to anyone you know hiring.

Smart Contract Engineer

• 8+ years engineering experience, with intense on-chain work since 2019

• Currently a Senior Full-Stack Web3/Blockchain engineer at a VC-backed protocol where he’s led development for their NFT minting platform, architected / designed NFT bridges between ethereum, solana, etc and built NFT marketplace smart contracts

• Strong in Javascript, Python, Solidity, rust, move Next.JS and TypeScript

• BS, Computer Science from University of Waterloo

Founding / Early Engineer (Backend)

• One of the most outgoing and charismatic engineers we’ve worked with, she's been at Lyft for just about three years, working on their most profitable product - Rideshare - airports.

• At Lyft, she was the 3rd engineer on the  RideShare - Airports team, which has now become Lyft's most profitable product and has scaled to nearly 30 total people. She owns much of the BE development, working in depth with Go/Python.

• University of Michigan: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - Dean's Honor List, University Honors

• Based in NYC

Founding / Early Engineer (Full Stack/ BE)

• Principal Engineer with 10+ years experience working across the Stack, most recently at Amazon and currently at Hopper where he built and scaled the backend for their finance automation - which are a big part of Hopper’s core product offering 

• At Amazon, he focused on building and scaling backend distributed systems as a part of Amazon’s Financials Foundations .

• After helping scale Hopper’s core BE systems, he’s looking for his next challenge - ideally going into a 0-1 environment where he can build from the ground up

• MS, CS from Georgia Institute of Technology

Founding Engineer (Full Stack)

• Healthy mix of 0-1 (being a founding engineer) and big tech, currently a Staff SWE at Coco in LA

• At Coco (Series A startup) he leads all backend development, owning all key backend architecture and mentoring junior developers on the team

• Previously he was a Founding Engineer and first employee at a VC-backed startup where he spearheaded the architecture, design, development, and deployment of the core software product.

• He has the ‘building itch’ and is keen to join an early-stage venture where he can work with the founding team to build core parts of their backend 

• BA, CS from University of British Columbia

• Based in Santa Monica

As always, if you know anyone who is looking to build their team with rock-star engineers - feel free to forward them this newsletter or give us a shout if any of these profiles catch your eye! 

Have a great weekend.

David