Remote Senior Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Engineer at Compound Labs, focusing on building financial protocols for decentralized finance. The role involves designing, testing, and launching products using Solidity, building back-end web services, and keeping up with the DeFi ecosystem.

Requirements

• Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
• Expertise building web-services for highly-trafficked web services
• Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset
• 5+ years of professional engineering experience
• BA or BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Build and test smart contracts in Solidity for EVM-based blockchains
• Ensure the correctness of financial algorithms
• Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains
• Keep a pulse on the DeFi ecosystem and identify improvements or areas of growth for the protocol
• Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
• Teach and mentor other engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Solidity or Yul
• Experience with Layer 2 blockchains (e.g. Arbitrum, Optimism) and cross-chain bridges
• Experience with Foundry or Hardhat
• Experience with Typescript, Elixir, Phoenix
• Experience with Elm or React

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Stock options in Compound Labs
• 3+ weeks of vacation
• Paid parental leave
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Company on-sites across the world
• Remote available with the option to work in our downtown SF office (metro accessible with transportation stipends)