Software Engineer, Smart Contracts

Summary

Join Espresso Systems, a leading developer of Espresso, a global confirmation layer enhancing cross-chain composability, as a smart contract software engineer. Collaborate with engineers and researchers to build blockchain infrastructure for Espresso's scalability on Ethereum. You will handle the entire lifecycle of EVM smart contracts, work with auditors on security evaluations, and guide projects from concept to production. The role requires 3+ years of software engineering or equivalent blockchain experience, proficiency in Solidity, and knowledge of the Ethereum ecosystem. Espresso offers a fully remote position with flexible hours, competitive salary and equity, team off-sites, unlimited vacation, and top-tier health benefits for US employees.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent blockchain/smart contract development experience
• Proficiency in Solidity and inline assembly (especially memory layout, memory operations, and precompiles)
• Knowledge of Ethereum ecosystem including EIPs, ERCs
• Familiarity with ecosystem tools like foundry, alloy-rs, hardhat
• Familiarity with commonly used solidity libraries:OpenZeppelin library, Solady library etc
• Understanding of software engineering and security best practices, in particular smart contract security
• Experience interacting with dapps/web3
• Experience shipping and taking engineering projects to production
• Enthusiasm for the industry is a must!

Responsibilities

• Handle entire lifecycle of EVM smart contracts: design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance and monitoring
• Work with external/internal auditors to evaluate the security of smart contracts
• Take engineering projects from concept and design to production, while working with engineering leaders and the product team to create sound and realistic roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience in Rust, preferably with visible contributions to open-source projects
• Experience working on blockchain infrastructure
• Experience with interoperability protocols

Benefits

• Fully remote with flexible hours
• Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
• Competitive salary + equity package
• Regular team off-sites to international locations
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage for US employees