Who Are We?

Obol Labs is a remote-first research and software development team focused on Proof of Stake infrastructure for public blockchain networks. Specific topics of focus are Internet Bonds, Distributed Validator Technology, and Multi-Operator Validation. The core team includes 35 members spread across +14 countries.

The core team is building the Obol Network, a protocol to foster trust-minimized staking through multi-operator validation. This will enable low-trust access to Ethereum staking yield, which can be used as a core building block in various Web3 products.

The Network

The network can be best visualized as a work layer that sits directly on top of the base layer consensus. This work layer is designed to provide the base layer with more resiliency and decentralization as it scales. In this chapter of Ethereum, we will move on to the next great scaling challenge, which is stake centralization. Layers like Obol are critical to the long-term viability and resiliency of public networks, especially networks like Ethereum.

Obol as a layer is focused on scaling main chain staking by providing permissionless access to Distributed Validators. The network utilizes a middleware implementation of Distributed Validator Technology (DVT), to enable the operation of distributed validator clusters that can preserve validators’ current client and remote signing configurations.

Similar to how roll-up technology laid the foundation for L2 scaling implementations, we believe DVT will do the same for scaling the consensus layer while preserving decentralization. Staking infrastructure is entering its protocol phase of evolution, which must include trust-minimized staking networks that can be plugged into at scale. We believe DVT will evolve into a widely used primitive and will ensure the security, resiliency, and decentralization of public networks.

The Obol Network develops and maintains three core public goods that will eventually work together through circular economics:

• The DV Launchpad, a User Interface for bootstrapping and managing Distributed Validators
• Charon, a Golang based middleware client that enables validators to run in a fault-tolerant, distributed manner.
• Obol Splits, a set of solidity contracts for the formation of Distributed Validators tailored to different use cases such as DeFi, Liquid Staking, and Fractionalized Deposits

Sustainable Public Goods

Obol is inspired by previous work on Ethereum public goods and experimenting with circular economics. We believe that to unlock innovation in staking use cases, a credibly neutral layer must exist for innovation to flow and evolve vertically. Without this layer, highly available uptime will continue to be a moat.

The Obol Network will become an open, community-governed, self-sustaining project over the coming months and years. Together we will incentivize, build, and maintain distributed validator technology that makes public networks a more secure and resilient foundation to build on top of.

The Role

The focus of this role is on developing and enhancing React-based web applications for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain to create Distributed Validators. This includes creating user-friendly interfaces, integrating with wallets, and ensuring the applications are absolutely secure and reliable.

The goal of this role is to enable the proliferation of Distributed Validators in the Ethereum Staking Ecosystem, by making them easy to create, view, understand, and interact with. This role requires working with agency and autonomy. It requires collaboration with cross-functional internal teams as well as dealing with external stakeholders. Obol’s Distributed Validator Launchpad, Obol’s static website, Obol’s typescript packages, and other applications will be under this role’s remit.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new features for our web applications using React, showcasing your expertise in creating user-centric solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, designers, and QA engineers, to ensure seamless delivery of high-quality products.
• Contribute to Obol’s coding standards, design patterns, and development methodologies.
• Drive innovation by researching and adopting the latest trends and technologies in the React ecosystem, ensuring our applications remain secure, competitive, and cutting-edge.
• Act as a technical mentor for junior developers, providing guidance and support to help them grow and excel in their roles.
• Collaborate with external partners integrating Obol technology into their dapps using the Obol SDK.
• Take responsibility for maintaining and enhancing our current products, including our component library (obol-ui) and DApp (dv-launchpad).
• Improve the accessibility of our interfaces to all types of internet users.
• Harden the security of our React software and its supply chain.  

Requirements

• Professional experience in React-based Ethereum Application Development (examples below).
• What we use for React Development: Typescript, Next.js, React Hook Form, SWR, Zustand, @headlessui/react, stitches.dev, tailwindCSS and others.
• What we use for Ethereum Development: Foundry, Hardhat, Ethers.js, web3-react, @obolnetwork/obol-sdk, @metamask/eth-sig-util, @0xsplits/splits-sdk(-react), @gnosis.pm/safe-core-sdk, @synthetixio/synpress, @chainsafe/(bls/discv5/ssz) and others.
• Previous delivery of react websites that enable non-custodial, wallet-based interaction with mainnet Ethereum or a similar EVM network with more than $100k in value handled.
• Knowledge of JS/TS security and testing best practices.
• Knowledge of JS/TS CI/CD best practices.
• Experience working with Agile Software Development methodologies.
• Web3 professional experience.
• Proven ability to maintain and contribute to Open Source repos
• Timezone between UTC-2 to UTC+3

Nice to have

• Ethereum staking experience.
• Node.js or other backend development experience.
• Solidity development experience.
• Familiarity with docker and/or running servers.
• SQL/NoSQL experience.
• Experience working in a distributed remote team.

Benefits

• Fully Remote Working and flexible hours.
• Meet the team at our Annual Offsites.
• Chance to attend crypto and staking conferences.
• Working with the purpose of decentralising Ethereum.
• Generous paid time off.
• Budget for equipment.
• Budget for training or education.

Thank you for your interest. Looking forward to building amazing stuff together!

As our DevOps Engineer, you will be helping us build and maintain blockchain networks and protocols. You will work on improving our current infrastructure including security, automation, and monitoring among other things. You will also have the chance to dive deep into new blockchain protocols, run testnets, build secure and scalable infra and maintain it.

What will you do?

• Build secure and reliable infrastructure to monitor, detect and mitigate performance and security issues
• System administration activities for Linux servers, which includes routine, proactive daily management of the health, stability, and availability of system infrastructure
• Create and maintain system procedural and technical documentation
• Stay up to date and build on peer-to-peer networking security best practices
• Create, maintain and communicate threat models + risk assessments for all systems we operate

What excites us about you?

• You have experience as DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure engineer
• You have the ability to program in one or more languages like Python, GoLang, Bash or Javascript
• You have experience managing server infrastructures with high availability requirements
• You had designed secure networks, systems, and application architectures
• You had set up and maintained software in both data centers and cloud environments
• You have a deep understanding of sockets, full networking stack, and Linux security
• You possess the knowledge of building automation and CI/CD processes and tools
• You are experienced with Docker, Kubernetes, and other cloud deployment technologies
• You have flexibility, teamwork, and you are comfortable with ambiguity, able to take charge and get things done despite the unknowns

What will be great to have?

• You have an understanding of the blockchain space and blockchain technology
• You possess knowledge of cryptography and security best practices
• You have contributions to open source communities

If those describe you, this is the right opportunity for you!

Why are we awesome you ask?

We are truly at the forefront of the crypto ecosystem as maintainers of the infrastructure layer of blockchain networks! We practice the crypto team mentality by assembling a truly global and diverse team.

We collectively represent more than 12 different countries and are united in a single mission: building out the future of decentralization. Crypto is here to stay, having introduced novel ideas such as DeFi, NFTs and DAOs. At the core of all this are teams like us working relentlessly to build the necessary tools and applications that help run and secure blockchains.

Here are some other reasons you should join us:

• We have employees from over 10 countries across the globe, and you will be able to meet interesting people from different backgrounds and cultures. Distributed and remote work is baked into our culture.
• We are one of the top staking service providers with over $3B of assets staked across our validators. We actively explore and develop new products related to staking. You will work on high-impact engineering projects building exciting new products in a startup environment.
• We have a capable and passionate team. You will find teammates who are power DeFi users, intense NFT collectors, Bitcoin & Ethereum knowledge nerds, etc. You can learn and debate everything on crypto with our teammates.
• We are not backed by VC funding, and we are already profitable. Our financial independence means that we can make decisions independent of VCs, and we prioritize our ideals of decentralization, user sovereignty, and user privacy over simply making a profit. It also means that, unlike most other startups, stakefish can provide you with a stable low-risk employment opportunity without fundraising concerns.

Chorus One is one of the leading operators of infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks and decentralized protocols. Tens of thousands of retail customers and institutions are staking billions in assets through our infrastructure helping to secure protocols and earn rewards. Our mission is to increase freedom and speed of innovation through decentralized technologies.

We are a diverse team of 60+ people distributed all over the globe. We value radical transparency, striving for excellence and improvement while treating each other with kindness and generosity. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of our Ethereum software engineering team focusing on automation of validator infrastructure and building great staking products. OPUS is our product suite which offers a one-stop-shop product for staking Ethereum. For users, it offers a portal where users can stake and see their rewards, and check the status of their validators. On the backend, we have a platform that automatically launches, manages, and monitors these validators.

OPUS consists of a React/Next.js frontend and a backend written in Rust. It is backed by PostgreSQL and Hashicorp Vault, and runs mostly on Google Cloud, with some bandwidth-intensive parts running on bare metal.

Your main role will be to design, develop, and deploy software systems to advance our product as well as other staking services.

Responsibilities

1. Design and develop new features. Discuss with internal stakeholders to clarify how our next feature should look, discuss with fellow engineers how it should be implemented, and then drive implementation to completion.
2. Support and collaborate. Review and discuss engineering designs, review code, help fellow engineers, and mentor them on a technical level.
3. Innovation and continuous improvement. Seek to simplify, optimize, and secure our staking services and systems.

The “Senior” title on the job description is purely for describing the experience level of the hire we’re looking for. Our job titles don’t include hierarchical seniority systems and we use consensus for driving decisions.

Job requirements

What we are looking for

• +5 years experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience with developing smart contracts and understanding of the Ethereum ecosystem.
• Experience with testing, maintaining, launching software running in production
• Deep understanding of at least one compiled statically typed programming language (e.g. Rust, Go, Kotlin, C++, Haskell)
• Ability to design new software features based on given requirements with focus on simple and sound architectural design choices
• Experience writing reliable applications using SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Strong communication skills and ownership to drive new features independently.

Nice to have

• Experience building, deploying, operating, and monitoring software, and related tools such as Prometheus, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and Vault.
• Basic familiarity with how blockchains work, and consensus algorithms such as pBFT.
• Candidates in European time zones (GMT+0 to GMT+3).

Our Offer

• Autonomy and ownership in a friendly and supportive work environment and the opportunity for rapid growth.
• Competitive fixed compensation (USD 100k - 140k commensurate with experience and equity options available)
• All-expense paid biannual team retreats at various destinations. Past retreats took place in Egypt, Serbia, Kenya, USA, South Korea, Thailand, Georgia, Dubai.
• Remote, but not alone. We are a strong global collaborative environment.
• Remote working budget (Laptop, co-working space, etc)
• Personal development budget
• Gather experience and build your network in the vibrant crypto ecosystem.
• Learn about state-of-the-art protocols that lay the foundation for an open, transparent, and programmable financial system.

Job Type: Full-time (Remote)

About Us:

Triton One is an international, fully remote company specializing in high-end infrastructure services for blockchain and other ecosystems, including Solana, PythNet, Wormhole, Sui, and Aptos. We collaborate closely with key developer teams across these platforms, leveraging our globally distributed RPC and validator deployments, most of which are managed through our Ruby on Rails applications. Additionally, we manage validators.app, a Rails-based platform designed to assist Solana stakeholders in identifying top validators.

The Role:

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer with a solid foundation in JavaScript and product design to join our compact web applications team. This position entails planning, designing, developing, and maintaining our Ruby on Rails web applications. The role involves significant initial development work ("0-1 work"), where you must demonstrate strong intuitive skills for innovating new product features, primarily focused on Web3 and blockchain technologies.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering or completion of a reputable coding school or boot camp.
• At least five years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails development.
• At least five years of experience in building front-end applications using JavaScript, including proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue.js, Angular, etc.).
• Exceptional proficiency in English.
• Experience with blockchain technologies and Web3.
• The ability to work independently and drive the design of new products with minimal oversight.

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation commensurate with experience on an hourly contract basis. Compensation options include payment via USDC-SPL or several fiat currencies.

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About

We’re building Omni: a platform allowing developers to deploy applications across all rollups without fragmenting liquidity. We’re looking for early team members to help us bring this ambitious vision to life.

We’re a team who already built a platform that processed over $70M leading to our $18M fundraise from top investors including Pantera, Two Sigma Ventures, Coinbase Ventures alongside angel investors including Stani Kulechov (founder of Aave), Sandeep Nailwal (cofounder of Polygon) and more. In addition to this our most recent testnet onboarded over 300,000 users in less than two months. We are growing rapidly and we need ambitious and experienced team members to join us to help scale Ethereum’s future.

About the role:

Engineers who join the team in this role will be responsible for designing and implementing foundational components of the Omni stack. This involves working heavily with Golang, Tendermint, Eigenlayer, interoperability components, and off-chain services while also having responsibilities to collaborate with the wider engineering team to improve our overall architecture and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Develop our core software stack – consensus and execution layers, Eigenlayer integration, and messaging protocol – from the design stage all the way to production ready implementations. Primarily in golang.
• Build a modular interoperability standard that is highly secure while also being flexible enough to incorporate future innovations in the interoperability space
• Build a network of validators that leverages restaked $ETH to secure the Omni chain
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain our node software and off-chain coordinating agents to power our distributed network
• Improve the design of peer’s architecture through thoughtful, professionally communicated feedback.
• Contribute to open source projects and play a role in building out the crypto ecosystem at large.

Requirements

• 3-7+ years of experience in a backend software engineering role with Go
• 2-4+ years of experience developing a blockchain client / node that launched mainnet in production with > $50m at stake
• Experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining a production system with > $100m and/or 1m users at stake
• Extensive experience managing the software development life cycle for medium to large projects
• Experience with AWS, GCP or similar cloud providers
• Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development and crypto, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services
• Daily overlap with 9am-12pm EST

Competencies

• Autonomous — specifically seeks to take greater ownership and responsibility and thrives in their personal growth by doing so
• Action oriented — we are looking for people who take action by default, consistently driving forward progress without asking for permission
• An engineer in both thought and implementation — they must be able to design architecture and see it through to implementation
• Adaptable — thrives in ambiguity, able to quickly iterate and push forward as the business dynamically expands
• Highly intelligent — learns quickly and can participate in abstract intellectually engaging conversations
• Effective communicator — clearly articulates ideas and engages in debates in a productive manner that leads us to making better decisions

Nice to Haves

• Experience scaling out infrastructure for distributed services
• Experience building a system with a distributed consensus mechanism
• Deep understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine

Our benefits include competitive compensation, early stage equity allocations, team outings and unlimited PTO. In addition, you’ll join a team of high caliber team innovating at the frontier of crypto that work collaboratively to help one another accelerate their personal growth.

We are a mission driven company. We believe deeply that through software engineering we can build a self-sovereign society. In our day to day, we make decisions based upon our company values of Individual Autonomy, Long-Term Orientation and Open Access.

The future belongs to all of us, independent of our origins. Omni is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender or any other status protected under federal, state or local law.