Optimism Staff Engineer

Optimism; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a seasoned software developer to join their team and contribute to the Optimism roadmap. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge governance applications, focusing on enhancing collaboration within the crypto ecosystem. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers, take ownership of your work, and have a significant impact on product development. With a commitment to fostering a supportive environment, this company values your contributions and offers a path for growth as they scale. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Equity Ownership

Quarterly Offsites

Flexible Work Hours

Qualifications

• 6+ years in production software development.
• Strong TypeScript fundamentals and expertise.
• Experience with front-end frameworks like React.

Responsibilities

• Work on the Optimism roadmap at Agora.
• Develop the Optimism Governance app and related tools.
• Collaborate with co-founders and engineers.

Skills

Software Development

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Ethereum Architecture

Solidity

Indexers

Computer Science Fundamentals

Job description

About Agora

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.

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, 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:

  • EAS

  • IPFS

  • Farcaster

• Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure through:

  • Building design systems

  • 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 – we offer health, vision and dental benefits.

• 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

Agora operates as a remote, distributed team with headquarters in San Francisco. We gather quarterly for full-team offsites held in various locations across the country. Although our team is globally distributed, we work during US-friendly hours, specifically in the PST/EST time zones.