Risk Labs Foundation is hiring a
Senior Smart Contract Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Senior Smart Contract Engineer at Risk Labs to work on the UMA protocol team, focusing on the core Optimistic Oracle (OO) and collaborating with industry leaders. The role involves researching and developing protocol upgrades, implementing smart contracts, code review, mentorship, and writing off-chain code for bot systems.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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