About the Role
This role focuses on backend services that interface with cross-chain smart contract systems. Proceed if you’re a hacker at heart, you can work from earliest R&D to final implementation, and these things are of interest to you : intents, rollups, solver systems, off-chain matching systems, proof systems, EVM, real people using what you’ve built.
Responsibilities:
1) Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.
2) Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.
3) Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.
4) Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.
5) Provide technical support and guidance to developers building on our platform.
Requirements
Competencies/traits:
Ability to influence the culture of the entire team with their demeanor, standard of work, knowledge, hustle
Knows they’re effing good, without being an asshole
Debatable opinions on the rollup ecosystem and current developments in the Ethereum technical roadmap
Apparent interest and passion for contributing to the crypto ecosystem
A bias for startups: constant problem solving, high ownership and accountability, smaller teams
Qualifications:
6+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years building and maintaining high-availability systems in TypeScript, ideally with experience or interest in Go / Rust.
3+ years of experience developing high-availability backend services that interact with real-time cryptocurrency platforms (solvers, relayers, multichain infra, etc.)
Strong coding skills with a deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and debugging complex distributed systems.
Deep understanding of Solidity, the EVM, smart contract best practices and current industry patterns especially with applied experience in chain abstraction, bridging technologies, intent/relay networks
Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale production systems on the cloud, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
Ability to build from 0→1, designing systems from scratch and making critical early technical decisions.
Passion for modern best practices in backend engineering and Web3, with a desire to actively shape the tech stack as new systems and services are built.
Strong initiative and ownership, with the ability to drive projects forward autonomously in a fast-moving crypto environment.
Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture.
Nice-to-haves:
Has previously been a Technical Lead
Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
Degree in computer science
Experience with Rust / Go
Active and demonstrated contributions to open source crypto projects
Benefits:
Fully remote organization that allows you to work anywhere in the US, Canada, or North American time zones (other exceptions considered case-by-case)
100% employer-sponsored medical, vision and dental coverage for you, your spouse and your dependents
Flexible vacation and work culture
Work-from-home stipend, monthly wellness allowance, and annual learning & development allowance
401(k) plan with company match (if eligible based on residency)
Regular co-working opportunities in different cities throughout the US
Interview Process
Recruiter / HR Call
Hiring Manager Interview: Technical interview with - Lead Technical Product Manager
Take Home Test: Take Home Exercise
Technical Assignment: Live coding exercise review with 3-4 of our engineers
Behavioural Interview: People Team interview
Founder / CEO Interview: Final interview with CEO
About the Company
Our client exists to maximize money’s value — to reclaim value lost to the current financial system and make sure the onchain economy actually bring us money without borders. They expect better from their money, and they want you to as well. That’s what drives them every day.
They focus their work on contributing to the their Protocol and building Bend. The company Protocol is for stablecoins and the apps that use them — designed from the ground up for the most capital efficient stablecoin transaction execution across Ethereum, with the simplest possible user experience. Bend is the product they build to demonstrate what the protocol makes possible — to show that they can build a seamless payment experience that anyone can use, with crypto today.
With both the their company Protocol and Bend, they continue to push the boundary of what crypto enables and just how powerful the user experience can be: a simple send, whether you’re paying someone, providing liquidity, trying to new app, or inviting a friend onchain for the first time. They’re a team hell-bent on doing their very best work (individually and together), solving hard problems, staying optimistic, and believing money should be better.