Overview

Meta Frontier Studios (MFS) is a venture studio at the bleeding edge of AI and blockchain, operating in proven and new markets alike, where we launch 2-3 ventures per year. We've recently acquired Clank Fun, a vibe-based token launchpad and trading platform on the Base blockchain, emphasising community-driven memecoin creation, launches, and trading. This role is a unique opportunity to join MFS as a studio-wide Lead Engineer, with Clank Fun as your first major project. You'll take ownership of scaling and maintaining later-stage products across our portfolio, ensuring they are production-ready and polished before spin-out. Working closely with our founding engineer, you'll step in after initial builds to refine, stabilise, and optimise platforms, ensuring performance, security, and long-term scalability. If you want to build in Web3 without going solo, and thrive in bringing projects from MVP to high-volume production systems, this is your chance. MFS is backed by Bifrost.

Responsibilities

• Take over late-stage projects from initial builds, driving the finishing, scaling, and ongoing development required for spin-out readiness.
• Lead the full lifecycle of later-stage product development including feature refinement, testing, optimisation, and deployment.
• Maintain and optimise existing tech stacks across multiple ventures, ensuring high performance, security, and uptime for platforms handling high transaction volumes.
• Integrate and enhance crypto-specific functionalities, such as smart contract deployments, liquidity pool management on Uniswap, ERC-20 token handling, and AI-powered automation.
• Collaborate with the team to validate new features, run A/B tests, and incorporate user feedback from the community (e.g., via Farcaster, Telegram, and X integrations).
• Automate monitoring, analytics, and reporting across ventures to track trading volume, user engagement, and ecosystem metrics.
• Own security audits, compliance with blockchain standards, and scalability improvements for later-stage products across the studio.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in Web3 or blockchain projects, with proven ownership of production-ready systems.
• Deep expertise in crypto and blockchain ecosystems - you're not just coding; you're immersed in DeFi, tokenomics, and L2 solutions like Base. You understand smart contracts, token standards, wallets, and protocols like Uniswap.
• Proficiency in our core stack: Solidity, Next.js, React, Vercel hosting, and JavaScript libraries (e.g., Intersection Observer, Workbox). You're comfortable building and maintaining serverless apps.
• Hands-on experience with Ethereum-compatible blockchains, including deploying contracts, handling transactions, and integrating with tools like Web3.js or ethers.js.
• Strong problem-solving in messy, fast-paced environments - priorities shift with market trends, and you execute under pressure.
• Experience maintaining platforms with social integrations (e.g., Twitter CDN, Farcaster) and analytics (e.g., Google Analytics 4, CrUX Dataset).
• Security-focused mindset, with knowledge of best practices like HSTS, SSL by Default, and preventing common Web3 vulnerabilities.
• Proven expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable databases, specifically with PostgreSQL, Redis, and NeonDB. Includes writing efficient queries, managing migrations, ensuring data integrity, and optimizing performance for high-throughput, decentralized applications.
• Plus if you have:
  • Experience with AI integrations in blockchain apps, such as bots for token deployment or vibe-based trading algorithms.
  • Prior work on token launchpads, memecoin platforms, or DeFi tools (e.g., similar to Pump fun on Solana).
  • Familiarity with our broader tool-stack (Notion, GitHub, Google Apps, Miro) and API development for ecosystem extensions.
  • Contributions to open-source Web3 projects or personal crypto experiments.
  • Comfort with community engagement, like debugging user-reported issues from X.

Benefits

• A competitive salary, based on experience level
• Hybrid work culture
• Insight to early-stage ventures and the Clanker ecosystem
• A front-row seat to scaling a high-volume blockchain platform
• Work alongside one of the most connected operator-VCs in the AI/Web3 space
• Equity upside in Clank fun

Process

• 30-minute screening call
• 45-minute technical deep dive with the founder and founding engineer
• Coding challenge & portfolio review focused on Web3 projects
• References
• Personality test
• Culture Check
• Offer & Hire