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Role
Who you are
- You are a curious learner, eager to dive deep into blockchain technologies and apply your skills to innovate in DeFi.
- Your professionalism shines through your understanding of engineering best practices and your desire to produce high-quality code.Collaboration is your strong suit; you thrive on sharing knowledge and growing alongside a team of diverse experts.
- 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.
- 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
- Experience with databases, networking, and data pipelines is strongly preferred
- Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
- Love for great software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on
- Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and clean code
- Passion for blockchain technology, cryptonomic protocol design, game theory, and decentralized finance
- Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written
What the job involves
- Dive into the world of blockchain by developing protocol upgrades and crafting new financial tools with UMA.
- Code with a purpose, focusing on creating secure, straightforward, and gas-efficient smart contracts.
- Engage in a collaborative coding environment, providing and receiving detailed code reviews to elevate team expertise.
- Create robust off-chain bot systems that ensure the seamless management and interaction with smart contracts.
- Learn rapidly and make a tangible impact in the expanding realm of decentralized finance and blockchain technology.
- Protocol Architecture: Research and develop protocol upgrades and new financial concepts.
- Smart Contracts: Implement designs with a focus on security, simplicity, ease of use, and gas-efficiency.
- 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.
- Bots: write off-chain code to interact with and manage smart contracts. Bot systems should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and antifragility.
- 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.
- Language experience is not as important as your demonstrated ability to learn quickly but our language stack is simply: Typescript, Solidity, GCP
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Company
UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real-world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.
About the company
Risk Labs is the foundation and core team behind UMA, and some top tier products built with it such as oSnap, Oval, and the Across protocol . The Risk Labs team, operates as one cohesive (amazing!) culture, but focuses on two core protocols, UMA and Across. UMA and Across are decentralized protocols governed by community members across the globe in DAOs, and are supported by Risk Labs Foundation. UMA's optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. Across is leading the future of interoperability with its frontier intents based architecture.
Benefits & perks
- Compensation and Benefits
- Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options.
- 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.
- Will pay in stablecoins or fiat
- Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)
- 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in
- At least two team wide offsites a year
Company Values
- Our values:
- 1) We value each individual’s right to economic freedom
- 2) We value openness, honesty, and directness
- 3) We value integrity
- 4) We value iterative learning
- 5) We value taking smart risks. We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.
Founders
Hart Lambur is a notable figure in the world of fintech and blockchain technology, currently serving as the co-founder of blockchain protocols Across and UMA. He has held a director role at Risk Labs Foundation for over 6 years, fostering the growth of UMA and Across protocols. Previously, Lambur founded Openfolio, a personal finance tracking platform, which was then acquired by Stone Ridge Asset Management. Before venturing into entrepreneurship, he spent nearly eight years working as an Interest Rate Trader at Goldman Sachs. Lambur is an alumnus of Columbia University, holding a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Computer Science. He is also associated with Robot Ventures as a Venture Partner and has pledged a significant part of his future earnings to charity through Founders Pledge.