Smart Contract Engineer

Summary

Join the Wormhole Foundation as a Smart Contract Engineer and contribute significantly to the development and improvement of Wormhole's open-source smart contracts and protocols. You will work on various blockchains, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and follow secure development practices. The role requires relevant tertiary qualifications or work experience, a high-agency approach, customer obsession, and strong collaboration skills. Experience with writing production smart contracts is essential, along with a willingness to learn new languages and runtimes. Ideally, you should be based in the EMEA or Americas time zones and enjoy remote work.

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant work experience
• Be high agency and effect the outcomes they wish to see
• Demonstrate customer obsession and feel pride in building great experiences
• Be highly collaborative with the internal team, other Wormhole collaborators, and customers
• Care deeply about the business outcomes of your work and challenge priorities when the business impact is unclear
• Have experience with writing production smart contracts in one environment, but be willing to learn and flex into other languages and runtimes as needed

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of smart contracts on blockchains such as Ethereum (and various EVM side chains and L2s), Solana, Sui, Aptos, and more
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements, analyze business needs, and translate them into smart contract code
• Follow best practices for secure smart contract development and build future best practices alongside Wormhole security researchers
• Maintain and improve Wormhole’s testing framework and thoroughly test your code with various kinds of tests
• Stay up to date with the latest in smart contract technology, tooling, best practices, and industry trends

Preferred Qualifications

Enjoy working remotely with a talented global team and ideally based in the EMEA or Americas time zones