Founding Product Engineer
Open Standard
Founding Product Engineer
Open Standard
Dollar-backed stablecoin for cross-border payments
Open Standard is building internet-native money.
We believe that much like data moved to the cloud, dollars will move on-chain. As this transition occurs, stablecoins will become core financial infrastructure. To do that, we are building Open USD (https://ousd.xyz/). OUSD is live across Base, Ethereum, Solana, and Tempo, with Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe, and Visa as founding partners.
We are still very early, and the engineers joining now will shape both the product and the company.
We are looking for a Founding Product Engineer who can take ambiguous problems and turn them into products people actually use.
You will work across APIs, backend systems, data, integrations, internal tools, and user-facing products. There may not be a detailed PRD waiting for you. We expect you to understand the problem, make product and technical decisions, and build.
This role will have outsized influence on our product direction, technical foundations, engineering culture, and how the team grows from here.
We also want engineers who are highly AI native and already use coding agents and AI tools to materially change how they work.
Own products and features end to end, from problem definition through launch.
Build across the stack, including APIs, backend systems, integrations, dashboards, and internal tools.
Work directly with customers, partners, and the founding team.
Help define product direction and technical architecture.
Use AI and automation to prototype, build, and iterate faster.
Help establish the engineering practices and culture future teammates will inherit.
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Strong product instinct and technical judgment.
Comfortable working across different parts of the stack.
High ownership and comfort with ambiguity.
Able to move quickly without sacrificing quality.
Strong written and verbal communication.
Already using AI meaningfully in your development workflow.
Nice to have: experience in developer products, APIs, fintech, payments, crypto, or early-stage startups.
You do not need prior crypto experience.
Dollar-backed stablecoin for cross-border payments
Open Standard builds Open USD (OUSD), a dollar-backed stablecoin designed to enable predictable, low-cost cross-border money movement at scale. The product is a dollar-pegged token whose governance is open and neutral: its board is made up of partner companies rather than a single issuer, and most revenue generated from reserves goes back to participants who adopt and distribute the token, minus a small management fee for the company’s technical, compliance, and operational costs. OUSD is supported by a broad network of institutional partners (including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Adyen, Coinbase, BNY, Western Union, and U.S. Bank) and plans to launch on the Solana network later in 2026. Open Standard’s goal is to provide a scalable, low-cost foundation for international payments by aligning incentives with users and partners through shared governance and revenue sharing, rather than concentrating control in one issuer.
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