Senior Smart Contracts Engineer

Summary

Join cLabs, a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem, as a Smart Contracts Engineer. You will contribute to the design and development of Celo's core smart contracts, ensuring their security and contributing to best practices. This role involves writing production-level code in Solidity and Typescript, gathering requirements from stakeholders, collaborating with auditors, and managing releases end-to-end. The ideal candidate possesses significant experience in software engineering, Solidity programming, and deploying smart contracts to public blockchains. A passion for blockchain technology and Celo's mission is essential.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in software engineering primarily working in Javascript, Typescript
• At least 1 - 2 years of experience in Solidity programming and using development frameworks like Foundry, Hardhat or viem
• Prior experience in deploying complex smart contract systems to a public blockchain (e.g. Ethereum)
• Solid knowledge of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
• Passion for blockchain technology and Celo's mission
• Experience working with cloud-based platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Responsibilities

• Write production-level code in Solidity and Typescript
• Gather requirements from Engineering Partners and other key internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Celo Validators, Celo Stakeholders) in order to determine and implement changes to our core primitives, including smart contracts and tooling
• Collaborate with third party Smart Contract Auditors to ensure the quality assurance of the proposed changes as they go through our smart contract release process
• Work on releases end-to-end: from specifications, to design, ship and maintain

Preferred Qualifications

• Low-level working experience
• You have experience working with third party smart contract auditors such as OpenZeppelin, Certora
• You have worked on a smart contract system that have processed high dollar volume amount
• You have knowledge of past and common smart contract exploits and know how to avoid them