Smart Contracts Engineer

Optimism; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a passionate Solidity developer to join their remote team focused on advancing onchain governance. In this role, you will build and enhance governance smart contracts, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects and shape the future of decentralized collaboration. The company values ownership and offers competitive benefits, a strong team environment, and a clear path for growth as they scale. If you are eager to push the boundaries of what's possible in the crypto space, this position is for you.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Vision Benefits

Dental Benefits

Equity Ownership

Quarterly Offsites

Professional Growth Opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong work ethic and commitment to daily progress.
• Familiarity with common crypto protocols and standards.

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of governance smart contracts.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to scale protocols.

Skills

Solidity

Onchain Governance

Protocol Engineering

Open Source Contribution

Understanding of EVM

Familiarity with Crypto Protocols

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 work on building out the next generation of Agora's governance smart contracts. Working alongside our product, engineering and customer facing teams across Agora to support our customers in scaling their protocol. No tasks too small, and you’re expected to get your hands dirty. You’ll do everything from working with our CTO to architect a new generation of smart contracts and modules for the Agora Governor to workshopping solutions with our CX and Sales teams for our customers.

What we're looking for

We are looking for a solidity developer who has a passion for pushing the boundaries of onchain governance and decentralized, collective creation forward. We’d love to work with you if…

• You have a strong work ethic and care about making day by day progress on what you’re building, but can also reserve a part of your brain untethered from the earth – thinking what’s at the boundary of the possible.

• You consider how your code will be read, written and indexed by applications as a core part of good protocol engineering. You understand how data gets into the EVM, how it get into applications, and how can you do that efficiently.

• You are familiar with the most common crypto protocols and standards and are able to explain how and why they work. You don’t need to have worked on these contracts directly, but you should be comfortable explaining their design patterns and extrapolating into your work at Agora.

• You keep up with the latest frontier developments in crypto: zkp, account abstraction, mev, L2s etc. This is not a research engineer role, but working familiarity with what’s at the frontier will help you steer our protocol engineering thinking in the right direction in the long run.

• You are proud and passionate about Open Source. Bonus if you’ve made contributions to projects.

• You love onchain governance like us :)
  
  

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 sizable chunk 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 off sites, and be part of all strategic discussions..

• 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.