Remote Smart Contract Engineer

Summary

Join the UMA protocol team as a Jr. Smart Contract Engineer to work on the core Optimistic Oracle (OO) and contribute to expanding UMA's protocol beyond its current capabilities.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in engineering at a software organization
• 1+ years of working with blockchain-based projects (think hackathons or personal projects as well), and a deep passion for blockchain technology, cryptoeconomic protocol design, game theory, or decentralized finance
• 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

Responsibilities

• Research and develop protocol upgrades and new financial concepts
• Implement designs with a focus on security, simplicity, ease of use, and gas-efficiency
• 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
• Write off-chain code to interact with and manage smart contracts. Bot systems should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and antifragility

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
• 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in
• At least two team wide offsites a year