River | Senior + Staff Engineers (Elixir, React, ML/AI) | SF or NYC or REMOTE (US, Europe, South America) | Full-Time | $150K-$250K + equity | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river

I'm Alex, founder and CEO of River. I also wrote the first line of code and still ship PRs.

River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. We custody over 25,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. We publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and our company financials annually.

Here's what our engineering team is working on:

  - Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
  - Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
  - Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
  - A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app
  - Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir

  - Senior Software Engineer (React, Full-stack) | $150K-$220K
  - Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K
  - Staff Software Engineer (ML/AI) | $200K-$250K

What’s controversial is that EU rules force censorship.

I'd recommend Obscura because it uses Wireguard over QUIC and it pretty good at avoiding these blocks. It's also open source.

Would you agree it’s strictly better than a single provider?

There is no perfect solution, but I would argue that a blind relay is very clearly strictly better than the alternative.