Growth Engineer - Up to $200k base at Sharpe Search

Do you want to work at a hedge fund that operates at the intersection of Finance, Data Science and Crypto?

Help build the growth engine behind the hardest data science tournament in the world—fresh off a $30M Series C at a $500M valuation (a 5x jump since 2023), led by top university endowments, and racing toward $1B+ AUM.

This tournament, where thousands of predictive models compete each week, directly informs an AI-managed investment strategy and rewards participants with a cryptocurrency.

About the Role

As a core member of a small, highly technical team, you’ll be involved in developing, deploying, and maintaining public-facing websites and APIs that drive marketing campaigns, growth initiatives, user onboarding, engagement, and community tools.

You’ll bridge marketers, engineers, and our global community of data scientists and researchers to build deeply valuable features, manage our Ethereum ERC-20 token treasury, and integrate with decentralized web3 smart contracts for seamless user experiences. You’ll also support PR, community outreach, Discord operations, and on-call rotations for backend reliability.

Exciting Projects on the Horizon

Deeper ad campaign integrations
Affiliate and guerrilla marketing tactics
UX improvements like onboarding flows, notifications, advanced filtering and visualizations
Gamification with badges and chat rooms
New channels to attract top data scientists

Technology Stack

Front-end: Vue 3 (with Node.js)
Back-end APIs: Elixir (with PostgreSQL)
Back-end Services: Python (with Pandas, NumPy, etc.)
Infrastructure: AWS (managed by Terraform, Airflow, ECS, ElasticBeanstalk, plus EC2/S3/RDS/Lambda)
Smart Contracts: Solidity

What We're Looking For

You should be experienced with modern front-end technologies (Vue or any similar JS framework).

Strong Pluses (Not Required):

Elixir experience
Python experience
Familiarity with Terraform/CI-CD
Stats/data visualization
Growth tactics and community building
Crypto/web3 familiarity

Location

This role is on-site in San Francisco.

Ready to Join?

Want to join a small, elite team building the growth infrastructure behind one of the world’s most advanced AI + crypto + data science competitions—supercharged by major fresh funding and explosive momentum? Apply below.

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Growth Engineer - Up to $200k base