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This organization is behind a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on HyperEVM, having achieved significant revenue milestones with an ultra-lean team. The client is now expanding its technical architecture to build an advanced, mobile-first crypto trading platform (spot + perps) alongside a novel, original social product featuring cutting-edge mechanisms.\nAs the first and only engineer in this specialized domain, the incoming candidate will take an original product vision and turn it into a robust, high-performance system-holding the entire architecture and the smallest details simultaneously. 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