DeFi Protocol Developer

Summary

The job is for a DeFi Protocol Developer at Syndr, where the employee will develop secure smart contract code, work on platform composability, deploy and maintain contracts, research DeFi protocols, keep up with security vulnerabilities, build automated scanners, represent Syndr at technical conferences, collaborate with auditing firms, and more. The company values a serious approach to product and brand, autonomy, ownership, long-term thinking, clear communication, and mutual accountability.

Requirements

• Prior verifiable(on-chain) experience with writing secure smart contracts
• Experience with smart contract testing (unit, integration, fuzzing, etc.) and deployment
• Comfortable with state-of-the-art solidity tooling, including Foundry, OpenZeppelin, Hardhat, Slither, Multisigs, Fireblocks, Ledger, Graph, IPFS, ENS, etc
• Expert knowledge of existing popular DeFi protocols including but not limited to Uniswap(v2 + v3), GMX, dYdX, vAMMs, Balancer, Lyra, Synthetix, Ribbon, Aave, Compound, Curve, Convex and MakerDAO
• Strong analytical and web3 experience
• Analysis of the Ethereum state using SQL queries with Dune
• Query data from the Blockchain using RPC endpoints
• Experience with Upgradable smart contracts
• Experience with popular web3 libraries (NodeJS, ethers, web3; Python, web3py, eth_account; Golang, geth)

Responsibilities

• Develop secure tested smart contract code for our trading platform
• Work to enable platform composability with a range of 3rd party protocols and providers
• Deploy, document, maintain and upgrade platform contracts and related systems
• Research and analysis of different (existing and future) DeFi protocols(Spot, Derivatives, Lending, RWAs, etc.), token models, and incentivization mechanisms, comparing their pros, cons, and trade-offs
• Keep yourself up to date with the latest security vulnerabilities & potential exploits
• Build automated scanners for suspicious transactions and response systems
• Represent Syndr at Technical conferences and hackathons
• Work to collaborate with smart contract auditing firms

Preferred Qualifications

• Good with maths, statistics, and problem-solving
• You have Typescript and React experience
• Experience with Intel SGX, Secure Enclaves, or HSM
• You have prior(manual/automated) trading experience(in TradFi or crypto/DeFi), with knowledge of derivative products like futures, options, and perpetuals
• You have experience with other non-trading DeFi products like swaps, lending, etc
• Experience working as a smart contract auditor/warden at Sherlock or Code4rena
• Experience working on trading systems and infrastructure

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to work with a small, focused & ambitious team on very interesting projects and get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project
• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial
• Sense of a Shared Mission
• Work on the latest technology, equipment, and web3 stack with dedicated budgets
• Flexible working hours
• Annual team retreat
• Competitive compensation