SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PROTOCOL
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Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.
Our Client
Our client is building the critical infrastructure to address this need. Our client is an extension to Ethereum that scales both its technology and philosophy. Not only do they enable orders of magnitude more performance, they’re also doubling down on Ethereum’s values as a public good, never to be captured by private commercial interests. Ethereum will enable the greatest change in human coordination since the birth of the internet, and our client is here to bring it to the masses.
What are the role responsibilities?
- A core part of the protocol team, developing smart contracts on Ethereum with emphasis on security, protocol design, and long term decentralization
- Lead discussions around protocol technical challenges and be able to make technical trade-offs between competing performance and protocol requirements
- Contribute to the public presence as a development team contributing to Ethereum (e.g., tech talks, etc)
What skills do you bring?
- 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role
- Significant experience with Solidity required
- Knowledge of the EVM and its functionality required
- Experience in the Ethereum industry/community with awareness about the EIP process and the way the protocol develops is strongly preferred
- Knowledge of blockchain and cryptographic fundamentals preferred (e.g., proof of work, byzantine fault tolerance, gas economics)
- A foundational understanding of Computer Science and a strong grasp on fundamentals, both in theory and in practice
Benefits: PTO, Healthcare, and more!
Base Salary Range: $100,000 to $200,000