Senior or Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Optimism; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a talented software developer to shape the future of onchain collaboration. In this role, you will be instrumental in building Agora's next-generation governance application, focusing on enhancing the user experience and product features. Collaborating closely with design and engineering leads, you will have the opportunity to influence the architecture and data management while ensuring high-quality code delivery. As a remote team member, you will enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere, with a preference for EST/PST time zones. Join a passionate team committed to redefining collaboration tools for a broader audience, including those unfamiliar with crypto. This is a unique chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving space.

Benefits

Ownership in product and equity

No-limit company card

Health and dental benefits

Access to executive assistant

Participation in strategic discussions

Path for growth to senior leadership

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software development experience required.
• Strong TypeScript fundamentals and front-end framework experience needed.

Responsibilities

• Build and own features for Agora's governance application.
• Work with cross-functional teams on product and user experience.

Skills

Software Development

Front-end Frameworks (React, Next.js, Remix)

TypeScript

Ethereum Architecture

Solidity

Indexers (Subgraph, Shovel, Ponder)

Computer Science Fundamentals

Collaboration in Codebase

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Solidity

Git

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.

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 work on building out the next generation of Agora's governance application focusing on the product and end user experience. You will work closely with our head of engineer, head of design and head of product to build and own features end to end. This includes working on the front-end, having strong opinions on where the data should live in the backend and giving yourself and the team leverage writing automated tests and good docs.

2025 will be a big year for Agora with dozens of new customers already committed and lots of improvements on the contracts, architecture, data layer and mobile experience. Your days will be filled with challenging and rewarding work that you will be proud of.

What we are looking for

• 5+ 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 want to start committing code on day one
  

Nice to Haves

• 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 – 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.