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Role
Who you are
- You're a self-motivated builder who thrives in a remote, flexible environment, crafting innovative blockchain solutions with a team of experts.Your curiosity drives you to deeply understand the technologies you work with, and you're comfortable with the iterative learning process, welcoming constructive feedback.Your critical thinking skills are sharp, enabling you to approach complex problems effectively, with a keen interest in cryptonomic protocol design and DeFi.
- 4+ years full-time experience in Software Engineering in a software, financial services, or related organization
- 2+ years of experience with blockchain based projects (hackathons and personal projects too)
- 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
- Building backend services: Build highly available backend systems, both serverless and persistent. These systems should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and anti-fragility.
- Indexing complex onchain data: Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access (including subgraphs). Gas efficient protocols rely on indexing to keep user experiences snappy and pleasant.
- Build critical bots and smart contracts: Build bots and other services whose primary role is to monitor smart contracts and send transactions. You will be responsible for building infrastructure that is responsible for company and user funds.
- Frontend development: Bring our frontend designs to life as interactive blockchain applications using the latest technologies, tools and practices.
- Code review and mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. As much of your day will be spent reviewing and designing code as it will be writing new code. We take pride in writing clean code.
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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.