Nascent

👥 11-50CryptocurrencyOpen SourceFinancial ServicesVenture CapitalFinance💼 Private Company
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Nascent is a venture capital firm building the future of open finance. We back early-stage web3 founders creating products and protocols, with a focus on category-defining companies. We invest in teams across a variety of areas, including cryptocurrency, finance, financial services, and open source. Our team of builders works to support our portfolio companies. Our tech stack leverages modern technologies like Common Crawl, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and high-performance web servers such as nginx, while also ensuring security with SSL by Default, HSTS, and DNSSEC. We are dedicated to creating cutting-edge financial systems that prioritize execution speed and reliability. As a team, we are a fully distributed team that values both individual autonomy and team collaboration, hosting team retreats twice a year to facilitate this. At Nascent, we foster a culture that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration. Our principles revolve around competing to win, owning our work, exploring, experimenting, playing, always building, and seeking and speaking the truth. We provide our team with the autonomy to build, supported by regular feedback to foster growth and high performance. We're seeking individuals who thrive in this fast-paced environment and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

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🧭 Full-Time

  • 2-3 years’ experience in accounting, or financial operations, or related roles.
  • Solid accounting foundation with experience handling month-end close, compliance, and bookkeeping.
  • Strong digital proficiency, especially with advanced AI tools and analytics platforms.
  • Proven ability to work in ambiguous, evolving environments—adaptability is key.
  • Gather and analyze financial data to aid in the accurate preparation of financial statements.
  • Ensure that supporting documentation is complete and adheres to regulatory and internal standards.
  • Conduct detailed reviews and reconciliations of financial records to ensure accuracy and consistency.
  • Proactively identify and resolve discrepancies, contributing to reliable financial reporting and data integrity.
  • Support the Controller in the development and enhancement of our custom accounting software.
  • Provide insights and feedback to optimize software performance and streamline accounting processes.
  • Support month-end and year-end close activities by preparing documentation, verifying financial records, and ensuring overall accuracy.
  • Support the coordination of sales tax filings and state compliance efforts, meeting deadlines and maintaining adherence to regulatory standards.
  • Contribute to timely and precise financial reporting while reducing compliance risks and enhancing audit readiness.
  • Ensure timely and accurate processing of vendor payments, record transactions in financial systems, and maintain detailed records to support audit trails and financial reporting.
  • Perform day-to-day accounting tasks with precision, ensuring meticulous maintenance of bookkeeping records.
  • Uphold compliance with established financial policies and contribute to overall operational efficiency.
Posted 9 days ago
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📍 Worldwide

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Trading Systems

  • 2-8 years of full-time software engineering experience, ideally as a systems programmer (Rust, C++, GO).
  • Experience building scalable, performant, production-level applications with regular release cycles
  • Performance sensitive engineering including multi-threading, streaming data, and concurrency
  • Distributed systems, micro services
  • Experience building trading systems is a strong plus, with an interest in and enthusiasm for financial markets or the crypto space.
  • Architect, design and build the next phase of a world-class trading system.
  • Support development and implementation of a backend, microservice-driven, Rust architecture.
  • Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, and apply and be a proponent of quality engineering practices.
  • Use documentation and specifications to build integrations between selected exchanges and our internal systems.
  • Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance.
  • Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.
  • Contribute to system architecture and interface design.

Backend DevelopmentC++AlgorithmsData StructuresGoRustCI/CDRESTful APIsMicroservices

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🔥 Venture Analyst
Posted 22 days ago

📍 San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Canada

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Crypto

  • Previous experience rapidly analyzing and synthesizing deeply technical information and forming and communicating a compelling perspective
  • Proven capability in relevant expertise areas, such as network infrastructure, protocol design, cryptography, finance, social, consumer tech, etc
  • Experience developing financial models and landscape analyses
  • Adept user of multiple LLMs, who would feel deeply disempowered if you could no longer use them
  • Researching, exploring, and evaluating bleeding edge technical projects and developing a perspective on new market frontiers
  • Build relationships to identify and source venture deals within ecosystem (e.g., founders, engineers, researchers, investors)
  • Steward the venture funnel: manage communication, action items, follow up, and meetings from first touch to closing
  • Prepare deal memos for high potential investment opportunities and coordinate team members through feedback process
  • Bring a strong analytical mindset to contribute to developing investment theses and analyzing ecosystem verticals
  • Supporting the venture team to deliver high-impact support for our portfolio, including identifying needs, developing resources, facilitating partnership introductions, sourcing candidates, etc

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🔥 Frontend Application Engineer
Posted about 1 month ago

📍 Worldwide, Toronto, ON, France, United Kingdom, Portugal

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Trading Platform

  • 2-5 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS
  • Previous experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications.
  • UX Design Skills with experience in tooling such as InVision, Figma, Balsamiq.
  • Have built trading and/or financial applications in the past (through experience, hobby or project work).
  • Design and build world-class UI for the next phase of our trading platform, enabling our team to do their best work
  • Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing
  • Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance
  • Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates
  • Contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
  • Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.

AgileFrontend DevelopmentHTMLCSSJavascriptReact.jsTypeScriptUI DesignAPI testingRustCommunication SkillsCI/CDProblem SolvingAgile methodologiesRESTful APIs

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📍 Worldwide

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

  • 2-5 years of full-time software engineering experience, ideally as a systems programmer (Rust, C++, GO). Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
  • Experience supporting a large project from start to finish.
  • Experience with some front-end technologies (React, Angular, Vue.js)
  • Experience beyond testing (e.g. quality processes, verification & validation)
  • Experience building scalable, performant, production-level applications with regular release cycles
  • Performance sensitive engineering including multi-threading, streaming data, and concurrency
  • Distributed systems, microservices, relational databases
  • Familiarity with Cloud platforms and IaC (Terraform and AWS)
  • Experience building trading systems is a strong plus, with an interest in and enthusiasm for the crypto space.
  • Design, develop, and maintain the next phase of a world-class LLM system that is ensuring optimal performance, low-latency, reliability, and scalability.
  • Support development and implementation of a backend, microservices, Rust architecture.
  • Responsible for front-end development in support of backend configuration management.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to support system users.
  • Build and integrate custom AI agents and LLM-based tools into your daily workflows to enhance efficiency and productivity.
  • Stay updated with emerging technologies, communication protocols, web standards, and best practices for data acquisition.
  • Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing
  • Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team

AWSBackend DevelopmentSQLAgileCloud ComputingFrontend DevelopmentReact.jsRustCI/CDRESTful APIsTerraformMicroservicesJSONSoftware Engineering

Posted about 2 months ago
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