Smart Contract Engineer

Placeholder; Paris; Hybride; EUR 60 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A distinguished tech company is looking for a Smart Contract Developer to join their solutions team in Paris. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Solidity, a clear understanding of Decentralized Finance, and a proven track record in delivering high-quality, secure software. You will play a crucial role in transforming client requirements into technical solutions and work collaboratively within a remote and flexible team that values freedom and responsibility. Join us to contribute to the pioneering work in governance through blockchain technology.

Qualifications

• 3+ years delivering software to real users.
• Expert-level Solidity experience.
• Fluency in TypeScript and libraries like Ethers.

Responsabilités

• Transform client needs into technical designs.
• Lead projects from inception to maintenance.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams.

Connaissances

Solidity

Decentralized Finance

TypeScript

Smart Contract Security

Collaboration

Outils

Foundry

Hardhat

Git

Description du poste

Aragon is a team of 24 people that spans a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and geographies. We're entrepreneurs, technologists and skeptics, troublemakers and problem solvers, who are building unstoppable tooling for the creation and management of Onchain Organizations. Our mission is to enable any organization to experiment with governance at the speed of software and we envision a world where humans can coordinate by the rule of code, reducing the need for enforcement by trusted systems, often through the use of violence.

Aragon launched the first DAO framework in 2017, securing over $40 billion in assets for the likes of Lido and Curve. We are currently building Aragon OSx & App, a new and improved tech-stack supporting projects such as Polygon and Taiko.

As a Smart Contract Developer at Aragon, you will be joining the solutions team, where you'll be directly involved in designing and building custom integrations for clients on top of the Aragon OSx protocol.

What do we expect from the Smart Contract Developer?

• Transform client needs into technical designs and production-ready code, always considering the user.
• Lead projects from inception to live maintenance, emphasizing secure and high-quality delivery at every phase.
• Exhibit deep expertise in Solidity, having not just deployed smart contracts but designed intricate contract architectures addressing real-world business challenges.
• Have an understanding of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and the workings of major DeFi protocols. Foster enthusiastic collaboration with other product and engineering squads, further deepening everyone’s knowledge of the ever-expanding technologies of web3.
• Engage in daily stand-ups, knowing when your expertise is critical, and step up to proactively solve your teammate’s challenges.
• Build solutions with a strong grasp of software architecture best practices and common standards across the Ethereum ecosystem and in the Decentralized Finance space.

️ Minimum requisites

• 3+ years delivering software to real users, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment
• Expert-level Solidity experience, including the design and optimization of advanced smart contract systems
• Strong foundation in smart contract security, with a history of successful audits and knowledge of common vulnerabilities
• Strong working proficiency in foundry and hardhat
• Familiarity with or contributions to Ethereum EIPs
• Significant technical contributions to DeFi protocols with at least 8 figures in TVL
• Fluency in typescript, and popular libraries such as Ethers (v5, v6) and viem.
• Experience working across multiple EVM networks - sidechains, OP rollups and Zk rollups
• Proven contributions to open-source projects within blockchain, cryptography, decentralized systems, or the broader web3 ecosystem
• Understanding of how to work in an agile environment, using git, and tools like Linear and Github
• Passionate about the possibilities of decentralized autonomous organizations and the impacts they may have on how humans work together to solve problems
• Excellent English and technical communication - both written and oral
• You are able to attend quarterly offsites - usually located in or around Europe - to work in person with your team

Bonus skills

• Experience or certification in formal verification of smart contracts
• Knowledge or hands on experience working with other parts of our stack, like NextJS, Turborepo, Envio, IPFS
• Interest in the use of LLMs to enhance developer productivity
• Working knowledge of advanced security tools such as HEVM, Slither, Echidna, foundry Invariant tests.
• Demonstrated experience using Vyper, Go or Rust
• Proven mentoring skills, fostering a culture of growth and learning within teams
• Power user of DeFi and/or Web3 applications

We value freedom and responsibility among our contributors. In practice, this means that we're a remotely distributed organization that's flexible but pragmatic. The team gets together for quarterly in-person offsites where we strengthen our alignment, drive projects forward, and have fun in different locations across Europe. We will trust you to accommodate and support your team, and communicate if you ever feel stretched thin. You will get all of the resources needed to be effective, whether it’s for setting up your remote work environment or a personal development budget. You will be a part-owner of Aragon X and you are expected to work with this mentality.

This role reports to Aragon X, a Swiss AG dedicated to advancing the Aragon Project. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer supporting a community of DAO creators, developers, and users experimenting with new forms of social coordination and governance.