Start with the customer.
Asset, app, network. None of it matters if the person on the other end isn't getting something real. We work backwards from there.
The lean, talent-dense team behind NBA Top Shot, Disney Pinnacle, NFL ALL DAY, Peak Money, and Flow. We co-authored ERC-721, the standard every NFT runs on.
We've spent a decade making the open internet feel like home, for fans, for creators, for collectors. We have worked with the world's biggest and most well-loved brands, including Disney, the NBA, Ticketmaster, and the NFL.
The repeatable middle of every job is shrinking, faster than most companies have realized. We've spent two years working out what that means for the people doing the work. The work that holds your attention is at two ends now: deciding what to build, and judging whether it's working.
$1.4B+ in cumulative GMV. 40M+ wallets on Flow. 50+ brand partners. Just getting started.
Asset, app, network. None of it matters if the person on the other end isn't getting something real. We work backwards from there.
In a market where only outliers truly succeed, small cautious bets are a guaranteed path to oblivion. Stretch goals are telescopes, not cliffs.
Waiting for perfect information is a decision to do nothing. Reversible decisions move fast; irreversible ones get the time they need.
Cut the work into pieces that ship. If a date is going to slip, scope shrinks before the date moves. Velocity is a function of how small you can break work down.
Every team owns its own infrastructure, its own data, its own stack. The price of decentralization is documentation: write what you built, where, and why.
Most companies use AI like a faster keyboard. We use it to put work into continuous flow, and judge it by what changes for a user, not by which model wrote which line.
You don't need to be told to walk in their shoes. You already do. Every week, on every team you've been on. The product is the job.
Your default surface is a PR, a written spec, a working prototype. Not a deck. Not a meeting. You write things down. You publish.
You don't wait for permission. You don't wait for tooling. If a piece of your work is repeatable, you've already started building the thing that runs it.
You say I don't know when you don't know. You flag the assumptions in your designs rather than presenting them as inevitable. The signal is what happens when the conversation gets hard.
You start with the end in mind, define your own success criteria, and course-correct without being asked. You don't need a manager to tell you what to work on.
Real conversations. A small piece of real work. A decision at the end.
45 minutes. You walk us through a system you've built, the tradeoffs you made, what you'd change. We describe one we're working on. No LeetCode. No whiteboard theater.
60–90 minutes, with 24–48 hours to prepare. We hand you a real problem we're working on. You design an approach using whatever tools help. We're listening for how you defend your choices.
Three or four conversations with people you'd actually work with, including someone who would not be your manager. Bring hard questions. We'll answer them. Decision within five business days.
AI in the room
Use whatever AI tools you reach for. We do, all day. The question isn't whether you used AI. It's whether you can defend what you produced.
Compensation
Salary, equity, and token grants where relevant. Bands published on every role. Geographic equalization where the role allows it.
Where
Vancouver-based, with hubs in L.A., New York, and Charlotte. Globally distributed, fully remote-capable. Coordination happens in writing.
Time
Generous time off, structured so you actually take it.
Health
Top-tier medical, dental, vision. Mental health support.
AI
Anthropic API and OpenAI for everyone, no usage caps for legitimate work. Cursor, Claude Code, and the agent infrastructure we build internally. We use what we ship.
We don't use a portal. We want to know how you think, which means we want a note from you that's richer than the one you'd send anywhere else.
Send it to careers@dapperlabs.com. Cover these in any order. Use AI to draft.
What's been bothering you for the last month. At work, in your stack, in the world. The thing you'd want to talk about for an hour.
Or the first one you'd build here. What it senses, what it does, how you'd know it's working. Doesn't have to be polished. Has to be real.
A PR, a spec, a prototype, a doc, a working demo. Link, don't describe.
We care more about where you decided not to use it.
We respond to thoughtful emails within five business days. Resume optional. Link to anything you've shipped that you're proud of: code, writing, a working loop, a Notion page, a Figma file, a video. Show, don't tell.
If you read this and recognized yourself, we'd like to meet you. If you read this and want to argue with it, we'd like that too.