Clicker is a protocol by Daylight, a USV- and 1kx-backed startup.
Problem
- The core problem in trading is discovery: what should I buy and why?
- Many traders track other traders' swaps to solve the “what”, but they never get the “why”.
Solution
- Clicker is the global swap comment network: trade wherever, comment with why you made the swap, and see other traders’ swap comments.
- Commenters and Clicker earn a % of the copyswaps that comments drive across trading apps.
- Apps get access to swap comments from traders in other apps and can give their users’ comments much greater reach than just their own app.
Vision
Why Now?
- Trading apps like Coinbase Wallet and Phantom are going social (necessary foundation for Clicker).
- CEXs (Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, etc) and fintechs (Robinhood) are all adding DEX trading to their CEX apps (huge TAM increase for Clicker).
- New trading formats are getting traction: prediction markets, perps, tokenized stocks (huge content increase for Clicker).
How It Works
- Trade in any app.
- Comment on your swap in any integrated app (or in the Clicker mobile app in the beginning).
- Earn on any copyswaps your comments drive across Clicker-integrated apps.
- Follow good traders and copy their swap comments.
The Clicker App, API, and Protocol
The Clicker App
Our mobile app lets you comment on all your trades (whether or not your preferred trading client has integrated Clicker), see the swap comments and swaps of the addresses you follow, and discover good traders to follow.
The Clicker API
A full suite of APIs to power social trading in your app, or to just add swap comments to your own swap feed and trading flow.
The Clicker Protocol
A global set of contracts on EVM chains and Solana to power referral rewards for swap comments.
Who we are backed by
Who we are
Our founders have been working together in crypto for six years at prior employers and at Clicker, and we are backed by great funds. We work on hard and interesting scaling and data problems, and we are on a mission to build the social trading protocol for all of finance.
Open Role: Staff Backend Engineer
We are looking for a staff backend engineer with deep experience designing and scaling REST APIs. Our API serves tens of thousands of requests per second, summarizing millions of rows of offchain data and terabytes of onchain data in 500ms or less.
The problems we work on are meat-and-potatoes software engineering: writing code understandable to others; optimizing Postgresql queries; tracing code paths for bottlenecks; getting the most out of AWS infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Build clean, maintainable, and well-tested backend code
- Collaborate with product to define, prioritize, and build
- Design backend REST APIs for usability and for scale
Projects you may work on:
- Feed: rapid, pre-built, algo-sorted feed of swaps from people you follow
- Discovery: surfacing good traders to follow across a diverse set of metrics
- Trading Metrics: large scale onchain metrics (PnL, win rate, etc) aggregation
- Swap Comments: prioritizing good comment creators across our products and partners
- Protocol: improvements to the Clicker rewards contracts and indexers
- Generally build the Clicker API - a robust, scalable, and developer-friendly API that the biggest crypto apps will use
You have:
- Deep experience with modern backend technologies like Node.js, Typescript, AWS, and Postgres
- 5+ years at tech startups with millions of DAUs
- Appetite to work on complex products with autonomy and creative freedom
- Experience designing and building out programmatic APIs
- Experience maintaining highly available infrastructure
These are some things we believe in as a team:
- Prioritizing the problems that most impact our goal
- Minimizing distractions
- Writing good tests
- Communicating openly and directly
- Everyone, and especially engineers, thinking about product and API design (the value to the customer)
Tech Stack
- Backend — Typescript Node.js, Postgres, Redis
- Infrastructure — AWS
- Frontend — Typescript React
- Protocol - Solidity, Rust
- Design — Figma
Benefits
💰 Competitive pay and generous equity
🧑🏽⚕️ Full medical, dental, vision insurance
🏝️ Flexible time off
Locations
📍 NYC
Hiring Process
Please include any relevant links and why you believe you are a good fit for the role. If it’s a fit, we will invite you to start the interviewing process:
- Introductory Call - 30 minute conversation with Kyle to discuss the role, Clicker, and your background.
- Technical Call - 30 minute conversation with Morley to understand your experience and what you are looking for.
- Code Sample - We want to see how you solve problems in a way that matches your available time. This can be Git commits, a two-hour take-home exercise, or a multi-day paid contract project.