Founding Engineer (Soft Offer)

Vanamonde Technology is a research-driven infrastructure startup building AI agent-native software abstraction infrastructure. The Founding Engineer will help define and implement the CSTG computational architecture, develop system-level prototypes, and contribute to the broader technical foundations of the system.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement system-level logic involving state, computation, data flow, and modular capabilities
• Work directly on the CSTG minimum viable prototype and its underlying computational logic
• Design APIs, services, and supporting infrastructure that interact with blockchain and stateful system components
• Translate architectural concepts into working technical prototypes and production-oriented system components
• Contribute across backend, infrastructure, protocol, and frontend layers when required by the system
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, reliability, and maintainability
• Investigate technical questions where the correct architecture is not yet known
• Work closely with the founding team to refine system definitions and evaluate architectural trade-offs

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and solid system design ability
• Experience building and maintaining non-trivial software systems
• Ability to reason about system architecture, state, data flow, and component interactions
• Ability to work independently in environments where requirements and implementation paths are not fully defined
• Strong ownership and willingness to take responsibility for problems beyond a narrowly defined task
• Ability to understand unfamiliar technical concepts quickly and turn them into working implementations
• Backend or infrastructure engineering
• Distributed systems
• Protocol or blockchain engineering
• Stateful or event-driven systems
• APIs, services, and data-intensive systems
• Smart contracts, Ethereum, L2s, Cosmos, or related ecosystems
• AI systems, agent infrastructure, or tool integration
• Other systems-oriented or research-driven engineering work