Guidance needed | Offer | May | Backend Engineer
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YoE ~ 1.7
Current Company: Fintech
Current Compensation (Base): 20-24 LPA + ESOPs and Bonus (3 LPA)
Offered Profile: Backend Engineer
Month: May 2022

Offer Details:
I got 2 potential offers which I am considering, one from a deep tech company A and the other from crypto exchange B

A is offering me 27 LPA base salary and 110 units of ESOPs (worht around 7 LPA, 4 Year vesting)
B is offering me 31 LPA base and 2 LPA ESOPs (joining ESOP with 1 year cliff, I will get more if I remain more) + 2 LPA bonus

About the companies

Company A is deep tech company with a good engineering team (most of the people from top tier tech company across the world). Their product is open sourced and the customers are really good (stripe, grofers + more than 10 USA unicrons to name few). The company has raised till Series B and it's not a unicorn yet (offered role SDE 2)

Company B is crypto exchange unicorn company in India. They are offering higher pay as compared to company A. But I don't know much about their projects and engineering culture. One thing is sure, they will offer even higher if I negotiate with them. (offered role SDE 1)

The benefits are more or less same in both (few brownie points in Company B, like life insurance policy worth 20 LPA)

Concern
Please help me to choose between two, I am not concerned about WLB.

I am more inclined towards B because of the pay and unicron title (will bring a brand value in my resume) plus future appraisals will be also good since they have cash to burn.
Role is SDE 1

But the work and peers are good in company A. Role is SDE 2.

Please don't ask company names as I want to remain anynomous.

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