The role
Take a leadership role in a small, highly skilled engineering team, driving the development of Contracts that power tens of thousands of decentralized applications built with thirdweb. As the Lead Software Engineer for the Protocol team, you will shape the vision, architecture, and implementation of key products, including the prebuilt smart contracts, protocol contracts, contracts framework, and smart contract tooling. This role combines hands-on development with strategic leadership to aggressively build and innovate in the blockchain space.
What a typical week might look like
- Lead by example: Design and implement gas-optimized smart contracts that will be deployed and used by hundreds of thousands of developers globally.
- Drive innovation: Architect and develop new smart contract frameworks and tools to empower developers to create secure, efficient, and scalable decentralized applications.
- Mentorship and collaboration: Mentor team members, review code, and foster an environment of growth and innovation within the Protocol team.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with other teams to solve complex customer challenges, plan new features, and iterate on solutions based on feedback and lessons learned.
- Customer engagement: Act as a technical point of contact for customers, assisting with integrating thirdweb into their applications or platforms.
- Community engagement: Represent thirdweb in the web3 ecosystem, collaborating with developers, companies, and auditors to establish best practices and influence industry standards.
What we're looking for
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficiency with Solidity, the EVM, and deep knowledge of blockchain architecture and mechanics.
- Interest and passion for contributing to the crypto ecosystem
- Deep understanding of smart contract best practices, current industry patterns and security best practices
- Excited about working in a fast-paced, unstructured environment that prioritizes delivering impact and learning over process
- A self-starter in proposing and carrying out technical solutions to ambiguous business problems
- Know when and how to make calculated tradeoffs to meet the needs of the customer and business
Benefits
- 🧾 Competitive pay, equity and 401K
- 👩⚕️ Full healthcare, vision, dental
- ⌨️ $1,500 home office equipment stipend
- 💻 Latest and greatest laptop of your choice
- 🌴 Unlimited PTO
- 🧘♂️ Workplace Wellbeing program
- 👶 Parental Leave support
- ✈️ The ability to work remotely or in one of our stunning office spaces in Fort Mason, San Francisco and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Recruiting Contact
- Edward Sun - [email protected]