Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Agora; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking talented developers to shape the future of governance applications. This role involves building scalable systems with a focus on user experience and collaboration. You'll work closely with a dynamic team, contributing to cutting-edge projects that redefine group collaboration in the crypto space. As part of a small, high-trust team, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of your work and grow into a senior leadership role as the company scales. Join us in creating tools that empower communities to collaborate effectively, regardless of their familiarity with blockchain technology.

Benefits

Health, vision, and dental benefits

Equity ownership

Quarterly offsite gatherings

Path for growth into senior leadership

Qualifications

• Experience with production-grade stacks and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Ethereum's architecture and L2 solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale Agora's governance applications focusing on user experience.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams on features.

Skills

Typescript

React

Next.js

Python

SQL

Solidity

Object Oriented Programming

Distributed Systems

Computer Science Fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

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 applications focusing on the product, scaling it, and end user experience. You will work closely with our head of engineering, 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

• Developers who have worked on at least three production grade stacks and distributed systems with object oriented languages. We heavily rely on Typescript & React & Next.js, and also have data pipelines in python & SQL.

• Understanding of Ethereum’s architecture and familiarity with L2 solutions

• Ability to read Solidity code

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

• A track record of delivering learning while 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

• Knowledge of the Governance Ecosystem in Crypto (Eg. ERC20Votes)

• Experience working with EVM Indexers

• 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.