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

Arrakis is the leading non-custodial, onchain market making solution for protocols and DAOs. Our customers include Ether.fi, Maker, Stargate, Across, Lido, Karpatkey and other industry leaders.

We believe in a world where every organization, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded onchain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

DeFi is at risk itself of being overcome by centralised actors however. As Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has become more complex, sophisticated actors have extracted more and more value known as MEV. Arrakis is working on next generation solutions at the speartip of the MEV supply chain, such as HOT AMM, to protect LPs and token issuers against this value extraction.

As one of the Front End engineers at Arrakis, we’re looking for someone who is hands on but also has strong product thinking skills. Although shipping is important, this role entails more than writing lines of code. You’ll be involved in discovery work and ensuring that we build user-centred solutions that can scale.

What things will look like:

• You’ll be deeply involved in crafting delightful user experiences.
• You’ll play an instrumental role in architecting our systems, working with our current FE engineer, CTO (co-founder), back end engineers, smart contract developers and product manager.
• You’ll be heavily involved in product discovery work.
• We prioritise learning and shipping. We keep processes minimal.
• You won’t burn time in pointless meetings. We run a planning call on Mondays and do demos on Fridays. We have ad hoc working sessions and do daily async written updates.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in React and Next.js ecosystems
• Hands on experience with Web3 technologies (wagmi, viem, Rainbowkit)
• Extensive experience with ReactQuery for efficient data fetching and state management
• Advanced knowledge of Typescript, including complex type definitions and best practices
• Expertise in modern CSS frameworks, particularly Tailwind CSS
• Demonstrated experience in monorepo architecture and management
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience implementing robust pipelines

Technologies we use and teach:

• React.js, Vue.js, Web3 Tooling, Typescript, GraphQl, NodeJS

Benefits

Join a small yet mighty team of industry veterans focused on revolutionizing crypto market making, collaborating with major projects like MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave, Lido. You’ll work fully remotely with members spanning Zug, London, Paris, New York, Berlin, and San Francisco. Arrakis is backed by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, Longhash, and more.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• SPICE token package
• Remote work
• Join amazing quarterly in-person offsites all over the world

The liquidity must flow…