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Overview

Lightning Labs is a bitcoin infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2016. The company maintains lnd, the most widely deployed implementation of the Lightning Network, a payment layer that settles bitcoin transactions off chain for speed and low fees. It also builds Taproot Assets for issuing tokens on bitcoin and sells developer tooling and node services to exchanges, wallets, and payment companies.

News

News Bernews 8 days ago
Photos: Storm Clouds And Lightning
Bermuda experienced a spell of inclement weather this weekend, with rain, storm clouds and lightning seen across the island,and video has been widely circulating showing what appears to be a waterspout in the east end. The weather conditions could continu
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News NBC News 9 days ago
Move over, Usain Bolt: Humanoid robots smash human records at Beijing games
BEIJING - Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.
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News theregister 11 days ago
NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots
Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you
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News Newsweek 14 days ago
American killed by lightning while climbing Italian volcano
An American tourist has died after being struck by lightning while climbing the erupting volcano Mount Etna in Sicily.
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Technologies

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Tech DNA
C++
Go
Python
Bootstrap
Next.js
React.js
PostgreSQL
AWS
Claude
AI/ML
C++
Python
GitHub
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Kubernetes
Function Calling
Model Context Protocol
AWS
Incident Management
etcd
GitOps
Helm
Service Mesh
PostgreSQL
Frontend
TypeScript
JavaScript
Bootstrap
Emotion
Next.js
React.js
visx
WebAssembly
D3.js
Other
Go
Rust
Java
Bitcoin
Smart Contracts
Jest
Playwright
Rest API
Stack modernity Cutting-edge AI adopter
80/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Bitcoin 9 jobs Required
GitHub 6 jobs Required
C++ 4 jobs Required
Go 3 jobs Required
Python 2 jobs Required
TypeScript 2 jobs Required
Cursor 2 jobs Required
Claude 2 jobs Required
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
12%
JavaScript
11%
TypeScript
11%
AWS
10%
Kubernetes
9%
PostgreSQL
8%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
OpenAI Codex Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol Aug 2026
GitHub Aug 2026
Function Calling Aug 2026
Smart Contracts Aug 2026
Service Mesh Aug 2026
PostgreSQL Aug 2026
Helm Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
9
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 days
08/29/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33%
DevOps
22%
Product
22%
Security
11%
Management
11%
Activity Timeline
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Aug 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026
Added Function Calling to stack Aug 2026
Added Smart Contracts to stack Aug 2026
Added Service Mesh to stack Aug 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack Aug 2026
Added Helm to stack Aug 2026
Added GitOps to stack Aug 2026
Added etcd to stack Aug 2026
Added Rust to stack Aug 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Aug 2026

Jobs

AI Product Engineer

5 months ago
In office • Full-Time
Go
Python
TypeScript
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Function Calling
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
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Full Stack Engineer

11 months ago
$128k – $262k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Bootstrap
Emotion
Next.js
React.js
visx
WebAssembly
D3.js
DevOps
Rest API
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
QA
Jest
Playwright
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$129k – $263k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time
C++
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
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$120k – $222k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
C++
Java
Rust
AWS
Incident Management
Kubernetes
Web3
Bitcoin
Apply
$108k – $243k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time
Go
Python
Rust
PostgreSQL
DevOps
etcd
GitOps
Helm
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
Apply
$129k – $263k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time
C++
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
Smart Contracts
Apply
$162k – $269k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Bitcoin
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$109k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time
C++
GitHub
Web3
Bitcoin
Apply
$130k – $222k per year (Estimated) • Remote • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Bitcoin
Apply