Applicant Privacy Notice Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform. As a Developer Relations Engineer, you will be the vital link between Avalanche and its global developer community. Your role will involve fostering engagement, building strong relationships, creating impactful technical resources, and driving the growth of the blockchain ecosystem. If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technology, have a robust software engineering background, and enjoy engaging with developer communities, we’d love to have you on board. Be part of a team that is redefining the future of decentralized finance and technology. WHAT YOU WILL DO Grow and Engage the Developer Community

Build and support a thriving global network of developers using Avalanche Collaborate with regional Community Managers to enhance engagement strategies

Create Developer Resources

Develop technical content for the Avalanche Developer Hub Build example applications (e.g., Solidity, TypeScript) for the Avalanche Starter Kit

Deliver Workshops & Events

Host workshops, webinars, and in-person events to educate developers on Avalanche’s technical capabilities Represent Avalanche at global conferences, meetups, and hackathons

Advocate for Developers

Serve as the voice of the developer community, providing feedback to internal teams on features, tools, and documentation Assist developers in troubleshooting issues and integrating with Avalanche’s tech stack

Collaborate Across Teams

Work closely with engineering, product, and marketing teams to enhance the developer experience

WHAT YOU WILL BRING Technical Expertise

Deep knowledge of blockchain fundamentals, with a strong understanding of Layer 1 networks Familiarity with Avalanche’s ecosystem, including its core architecture and whitepapers Proficiency in building with Solidity, TypeScript, or similar languages

Communication Skills

Experience creating developer-focused content, such as documentation, tutorials, and blog posts Strong public speaking skills with the ability to engage and inspire audiences

Community Engagement

Proven experience building and nurturing developer communities Hands-on participation in events such as hackathons and conferences

Tools & Open Source Knowledge

Solid understanding of Git and other open-source tools and workflows

Flexibility & Travel

Willingness to travel globally to attend and host conferences, workshops, and hackathons

Salary Range: $116,320 to $145,400 (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)

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WHY AVA LABS? If you've ever thought about joining an early stage Web3 company - this is it! We're a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're highly passionate about Web3 and redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications of all kinds. The company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. Join us and be a pioneer in a new technology that will have implications across a range of verticals such as finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, among many others. Ava Labs is committed to diversity in the workplace and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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Job Description

Job Title: Software Engineer (Developer Experience)

Location: Remote, or offices in NY/SF

Company: ZetaChain

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain aims to be the only blockchain you’ll ever need. It is a layer 1 blockchain and developer platform that connects any L1 and L2, from Ethereum to Bitcoin and beyond. Access all of crypto in one place, as a developer or user.

ZetaChain prides itself on its vibrant and active community, a testament to our growing impact and relevance in the blockchain space:

• Thriving Ecosystem: Over 150+ dApps developed, showcasing diverse innovation and utilization.
• Engagement: With over 1M+ followers on Twitter and an equally active Discord community of 1.2M+ members, ZetaChain fosters a dynamic environment for engagement and collaboration.
• Activity: Our mainnet has seen over 8K+ smart contracts deployed and processed over 137M+ transactions among 3.5M unique wallet addresses

Find out more about our ecosystem.

Find out more about our hiring culture: Dream Team Culture.

About the Role

ZetaChain is seeking a software engineer with experience in TypeScript and smart contract development to join our team. You will be instrumental in developing open-source tools and libraries that enhance the developer experience on the ZetaChain platform, and you’ll be working directly with exciting components of our tech stack.

Overview

• Our tech stack
  • Protocol: Go (Cosmos SDK, Comet BFT, Ethermint)
  • Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Vercel
  • Smart contracts: Solidity (EVM), Rust (Solana), FunC (TON)
  • Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Ethers.js, GraphQL, protobuf
• What you’ll do
  • Add new features to the Toolkit, our library of TypeScript functions that interact with ZetaChain
  • Improve Localnet, ZetaChain’s local development environment, to ensure seamless developer experiences
  • Maintain and expand UniversalKit, our component library
  • Extend and enhance example contracts with new features and support for additional connected chains
  • Participate in dev rel initiatives to foster community growth and engagement with the ZetaChain ecosystem
  • Get paid to write open-source software and public docs (probably what you always wanted)
  • Work on providing the best developer experience for people building on top of ZetaChain
  • Work on products that bring our core interoperability blockchain technology to end-users

Your skills and experience

• Base experience
  • 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in TypeScript
  • Experience in at least one smart contract language. Solidity is important, but we also work with Rust, FunC, and other languages in the future.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript development tools and libraries, including Next.js, Ethers.js, and GraphQL
  • Experience with smart contract development tooling, like Hardhat
• Bonuses
  • A balanced experience between working at startups and big tech companies
  • Experience with EVM or Cosmos blockchains
  • A track record of contributing to or managing open-source projects

About The Role:

The Software Engineering team at Shardeum is responsible for delivering the Shardeum Mainnet, and developing the smart contract platform, the consensus layer and the protocol layer. We focus on building scalable, performant, secure and reliable software that can be downloaded by thousands of node operators to actualize the Shardeum network. We are in search of a highly talented, innovative Lead Blockchain Engineer that has hands-on, practical Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) experience - preferably with another L1 blockchain.

If you enjoy solving complex computer science problems, are passionate about what you work on, are a perfectionist who wants to build things the right way, and are persistent about finishing what you started, then you're the kind of person we are looking for. You will be working with equally talented and innovative individuals with the goal of building incredible software with the potential to change the world.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic road maps for our EVM based Smart Contracts platform.
• Manage individual, EVM based projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards and EVM basics.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of complex software components on the EVM.
• Take on end-to-end ownership of critical software components related to our EVM based smart contracts platform.
• Design and develop innovative new consensus and protocol software.
• Ensure performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the software.
• Resolve issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of Shardeum software components.
• The tech stack you will be using is: Nodejs, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vuejs
• The development environment will be: Linux, Git, AWS, Docker and VS Code.

What We're Looking

• Extensive experience designing, implementing and maintaining an EVM based Smart Contract platform.
• You know what high quality code looks like and know how to foster an environment that creates it.
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• The ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
• The ability to write clean yet efficient code.
• The Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, even in an often ambiguous environment.
• Self motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress toward goals.
• The ability to communicate effectively and convey your ideas when discussing technical topics with team members.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

We'd Love If You Have:

• Experience working on all levels of a Layer 1 blockchain.
• Experience with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems.
• Experience with consensus protocols and other blockchains.
• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript, or languages like C, C++, Rust or GO.
• Experience writing a smart contract on a blockchain.
• Experience running a node in a blockchain network.
• Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum white papers.

We are building the infrastructure for Web 3.0. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride but promises to be fun!

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What are we all about?

We are a team of builders and researchers on a mission to empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build on decentralized systems.

Our expertise covers several domains: Ethereum and Starknet protocol engineering, layer-2, AI, cryptography research, protocol research, decentralized finance (DeFi), security auditing, formal verification, real-time monitoring, smart contract development, and dapps and enterprise engineering.

Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in the blockchain space, we frequently collaborate with renowned companies, such as Ethereum Foundation, Starknet Foundation, Gnosis Chain, Flashbots, Forta Protocol, Lido, EigenLayer, Open Zeppelin, RISCZero, Aleph Zero, and many more.

Today, we are a 350+ strong team working remotely across 66+ countries.

Are you the one?

An ideal candidate is a researcher who actively participates in debates about L1 and L2 designs, systemic risks, and consensus algorithms by writing academic papers, blog-posts, or fora entries.

Candidates should be able to work in a distributed research team, express their research ideas clearly, and know how to argue their findings formally. We appreciate candidates who are not afraid of voicing their opinions and motivate them or ask for explanations of concepts they are not familiar with.

Responsibilities:

As a protocol researcher, you will participate in research on, for example:

• L2 designs
  • Prover coordination and sequencer design, decentralization, incentivization.
  • Levels of finality.
  • L2 governance, PoS vs PoG.
  • Auctioning the right to build a block.
• Various flavors of staking: vanilla staking, restaking, liquid staking, and systemic risks they come with.
• Consensus algorithms
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of the known consensus protocols? When a given protocol work well, and when does it not?
  • How do we incentivize participants in the consensus algorithms?
  • How finality in consensus algorithms is achieved?

Must haves:

• A strong understanding of distributed protocol design. Particularly, a demonstrable ability to identify the trade-offs faced by protocols when deployed on blockchains.
• Ability to identify mechanism design problems and propose solutions.
• Familiarity with Ethereum: how it works and why?
• Familiarity with various designs of L2s.
• Ability to express thoughts precisely.

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge about cryptography, or
• Knowledge about game theory.
• Published work in relevant fields, blog posts and forum posts also count.

This is a fully remote role, with flexibility to work on a diverse range of projects, and opportunities to attend leading global conferences in the field. Some of Nethermind Research’s past work includes:

• Fiat-Shamir Security of FRI and Related SNARKs
• Systematization of Knowledge for Decentralized Identities and Verifiable Credentials
• Attributable Consensus Solution for DV clusters
• Threshold Signature Schemes
• A DEX design with user privacy

Perks and benefits:

• Fully remote

• Flexible working hours

• Plus equity

• Discord

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

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$70,000 – $110,000 + Benefits

You’re someone who loves solving complex backend challenges and building scalable, secure systems excites you.

The next challenge for you needs to be a bit more complex one.

What about designing and building backend architecture that supports high-availability applications and networks?

You’ll basically be building a highly scalable and secure blockchain communication network that allows global connectivity over wireless, 5G and IoT.

To be considered you’ll need to be an experienced engineer working in JavaScript/Node within an AWS environment.

You’ll also need experience with the EVM stack, proxy contracts and L2s.

All applicants will get a response.

Across’ purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient.

Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in cross-chain interoperability.

Who is Risk Labs?

Risk Labs is the foundation and core team behind UMA, and some top tier products built with it such as oSnap, Oval, and the Across protocol. The Risk Labs team, operates as one cohesive (amazing!) culture, but focuses on two core protocols, UMA and Across. UMA and Across are decentralized protocols governed by community members across the globe in DAOs, and are supported by Risk Labs Foundation. UMA’s optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. Across is leading the future of interoperability with its frontier intents based architecture.

Your Impact?

We’re looking for a Jr. Smart Contract Engineer to join the Across protocol team. You’d be working alongside top tier engineering talent, world class data driven product development, and a team motivated to be hugely impactful for the exciting interoperable future that we’re racing towards. You’re a person who loves optimizing and building at the intersection of technology, finance, and data.

Responsibilities

• Protocol architecture: Design and build protocol upgrades from idea to deployment.
• 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 complimentary offchain code to interact with the protocol. Bots should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and anti-fragility.

These responsibilities are going to be similar to the Sr. Smart Contract role posted; however, as a junior engineer, we have lower expectations about your previous experience. That doesn’t mean our expectations are low, instead we have higher expectations for the demonstrable and uncanny ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly. Someone who is exceptionally keen to learn and invest their time with us, in exchange for us investing in their growth. Someone who we hire for this role will become proficient in the above categories.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in engineering at a software organization. This can include multiple internships, what we want to see is your familiarity with engineering best practices (sprints, code review, etc.) and a level of professionalism.
• 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
• Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
• A love for great software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on
• Demonstrated ability to apply existing skills to new technologies
• Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written

Compensation and 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

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Risk Labs, the employing entity, is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align- we encourage you to apply anyways. We value you taking the chance. Risk labs will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Our values:

1. We value each individual’s right to economic freedom
2. We value openness, honesty, and directness
3. We value integrity
4. We value iterative learning
5. We value taking smart risks. We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.

Why do we love working at Risk Labs?

We are a group that’s aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We’re building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.

UMA’s optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world. Across is creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless with its intents based architecture. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life.

Still want to know more?

• Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly… to name a few.
• Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness.
• You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best!