Summary

We’re looking for a Jr. Smart Contract Engineer to join the Across protocol team. You’d be working alongside top tier engineering talent, world class data driven product development, and a team motivated to be hugely impactful for the exciting interoperable future that we’re racing towards. You’re a person who loves optimizing and building at the intersection of technology, finance, and data.

Responsibilities

1. Protocol architecture: Design and build protocol upgrades from idea to deployment.
2. Smart contracts: Implement designs with a focus on security, simplicity, ease of use, and gas-efficiency.
3. Code review and mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. In depth reviews of others’ contributions is expected with a focus on helping others grow their technical expertise.
4. Bots: write complimentary offchain code to interact with the protocol. Bots should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and anti-fragility
5. These responsibilities are going to be similar to the Sr. Smart Contract role posted; however, as a junior engineer, we have lower expectations about your previous experience. That doesn’t mean our expectations are low, instead we have higher expectations for the demonstrable and uncanny ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly. Someone who is exceptionally keen to learn and invest their time with us, in exchange for us investing in their growth. Someone who we hire for this role will become proficient in the above categories.

Requirements

1. 2+ years of experience in engineering at a software organization. This can include multiple internships, what we want to see is your familiarity with engineering best practices (sprints, code review, etc.) and a level of professionalism.
2. 1+ years of working with blockchain-based projects (think hackathons or personal projects as well), and a deep passion for blockchain technology, cryptoeconomic protocol design, game theory, or decentralized finance
3. Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
4. A love for great software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on
5. Demonstrated ability to apply existing skills to new technologies
6. Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you
7. Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Development
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration