Optimism Staff Engineer

Agora; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Agora is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical initiatives focused on group collaboration tools for crypto protocols. The role involves working on the Optimism roadmap, requiring strong experience in software development, particularly with front-end frameworks and Ethereum architecture. Join a small, dynamic team that values ownership and offers competitive benefits.

Benefits

Ownership in product and company

Competitive health and dental benefits

No-limit company card for productivity

Participation in strategic discussions

Path to grow into senior leadership

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in production software development.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with front-end frameworks.
• Strong TypeScript fundamentals and expertise.

Responsibilities

• Work on the Optimism roadmap at Agora.
• Develop the Optimism Governance app and OP Retro Funding app.
• Collaborate with co-founder and staff engineers.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Solidity

Ethereum architecture

Scalable systems

Job description

Agora is working towards a new paradigm for group collaboration by creating the tools for communities to work together onchain. This is not yet-another-productivity-saas. We believe that to enable the next era of collaboration, we need software that can bend current and create new incentives. No amount of removing friction will change how we work together if our reward functions are misaligned.So to this end, Agora is working tirelessly on the best end-to-end governance platform for crypto protocols – the first instance of at scale onchain collaboration. Leading communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, Nouns, and more rely on Agora to coordinate their community around critical protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, and steward their ecosystem for the future.But that’s not where we stop. Our goal is to build deep collaboration tools for people who couldn’t care less about crypto so that one day (soon), your friends back home are using Agora without ever knowing we’re on Ethereum.

What you'll do

You will be working with our co-founder, and one of our staff engineers on the Optimism roadmap at Agora. As Optimism Core Devs, Agora is constantly working on various work streams across different teams within the OP collective. The main areas of focus will be :

The Optimism Governance app

The OP Retro Funding app

The OP Governance API

What we are looking for

6+ years of experience in production software development

3+ years of hands-on experience with front-end frameworks like React, Next.js, Remix or equivalent

Strong TypeScript fundamentals and expertise

Deep understanding of Ethereum architecture and familiarity with L2 solutions

Ability to read Solidity code

Experience building or working with indexers (e.g., Subgraph, Shovel, Ponder)

Strong computer science fundamentals, particularly in building scalable and maintainable systems

A track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable code that facilitates collaboration within a codebase

You are excited about Optimism

You want to start committing code on day one

Nice to Haves

Contributions to the Optimism / Superchain ecosystem

Experience working on open-source projects

Expertise in designing for crypto applications

Experience working with :

IPFS

Farcaster

Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure through :

Making it easier for others to contribute effectively

What we Offer

Ownership – both in responsibility and equity. We’re a small team with high trust and expectations of each other. We want you to own a sizeable chunk of of the product and company, and structure our compensation accordingly.

Competitive benefits – in addition to good health and dental benefits, we trust all employees with a no-limit company card and equal access to our executive assistant to leverage for their productivity.

A strong team – we’re a small team that values experience, character and integrity. You’ll work with peers you respect, and who respect you.

A seat at the table – you will come to all offsites, and be part of all strategic discussions. We’re hiring for a technical leader, and will treat you as such

A path to grow –our goal is to retain all early hires as senior leaders as the company scales. We believe folks with the best expertise and deep context should lead organizations, even if they don’t traditionally self-identify as people managers.

Location

We are a remote team so location doesn't matter but we do prefer the EST / PST timezone for this role.

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