Summary

We’re looking for a Senior 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

Requirements

1. 4+ years full-time experience in Software Engineering in a software, financial services, or related organization 
2. 2+ years of experience with blockchain based projects (hackathons and personal projects too)
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

Compensation and Benefits

1. Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options.
2. Salaries for this role range from $100-200k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem.
3. Will pay in stablecoins or fiat
4. Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)
5. 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in
6. We are a globally distributed team and require all employees to have at least 3-4 hours of daily overlap with Eastern Standard Time (EST) to ensure seamless collaboration and communication. This allows us to work effectively across time zones while maintaining a strong team connection
7. At least two team wide offsites a year

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Smart Contract Development
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration