Build Ligate with us.
A small, high-density team, hiring senior engineers with real ownership and equity. No layers between someone writing Rust and someone shipping it.
Six reasons, concretely. The way your work will actually feel.
Real ownership
Senior hires get meaningful equity and token grants. You own outcomes — the kind that get your name on the release notes, and the kind that get your name on the incident post-mortem.
Hard, unsolved problems
AI provenance on a sovereign rollup has no off-the-shelf answer. You'll ship primitives, not screens. Some of them will be the first of their kind.
Short chain of command
You talk to the founders daily — sometimes unfortunately. No PM layer, no status-update theatre, no pre-read for the pre-read. Ship and defend.
Specs before code
Every primitive gets an RFC. You'll think hard before you type, and your thinking lives in public. The upside: your reputation compounds with every spec you author.
Remote-first, overlap 4h CET
Mostly async. A few synchronous hours per day for design calls where we need the same whiteboard. Europe and US East are the geographies the schedule agrees with.
Founding-team velocity
Weekly releases on devnet. You'll ship something real inside your first month — and the people who notice will email you directly.
What we're hiring for.
Two roles are open today. Four more open the week after pre-seed closes. If you're senior and see yourself in a “post pre-seed” role — reach out now anyway; we'll fast-track once funding lands.
Senior Rust / protocol engineer
Ship Sovereign SDK rollup modules, custom transaction types, and attestor quorum logic. Prior rollup / L1 experience a plus.
Senior backend engineer
Rust / Axum backend, Postgres, webhook delivery. You own the API surface that SDKs call into.
ZK engineer (SP1 / RISC Zero)
Confidential Prompts via ZK proofs. You'll design the redactable receipt spec and ship the proving pipeline.
Product designer
Operator dashboard, dev-tool UX, receipt explorer. You've designed for technical users at a protocol or dev-tool company before.
DevRel engineer
Docs, sample apps, workshops, ecosystem grants. You write code and you write copy — both well.
Founding brand / design lead
Identity across ligate.io, themisra.xyz, kleidon.xyz. High-craft, editorial-quality work for a technical audience.
How we pay.
Transparent. Written down. Revisited at every round.
- Salary
- Top of European + US remote market. Benchmarked against protocol-engineering roles at Succinct, Anoma, Cosmos.
- Equity
- Senior ICs and founding hires get meaningful equity. 4-year vest, 1-year cliff, single-trigger on change of control.
- Token
- Post-TGE, every FTE receives $LGT allocations. Same vest schedule. You participate in protocol upside, not just equity.
- Benefits
- Health insurance top-up (jurisdictions where we can); €2k / $2k home-office stipend; conference + training budget.
- Time off
- Minimum 25 days. We enforce it — you'll get nudged if you're under.
Skip the cover letter. Send us something you built.
Email hello@ligate.io with: the role, a link to code you're proud of, and three bullets on why this. We read everything and reply within 5 business days.