Senior Software Engineer, Category Labs
$250-287.5k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
High-performance decentralized systems
Job no longer available
High-performance decentralized systems
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$250-287.5k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record shipping products
- You’ve worked on challenging software projects where you had to write a lot of code
- You're an expert in C++ with excellent knowledge of lower-level details like memory management and multithreading
- You have excellent instincts for software architecture
- You value communication and collaboration
- You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
- Experience with crypto is not expected
What the job involves
- We are hiring an exceptional Senior Software Engineer who will lead a lean, focused team shipping a massively impactful system
- Your responsibilities include fostering technical mentorship, and providing empathetic leadership that aligns with our high-performance culture
- You’ll design new features and identify optimizations that advance the system’s limits
- You’ll use your knowledge of systems behavior and architecture to make performance and feature improvements to the blockchain system
- Reporting to the CTO, your focus will be on delivering quality outputs., driving best practices, from code reviews to code quality improvement
- You will design and build:
- A high-performance multithreaded stack-based VM, as well as ancillary functionality (storage, RPC)
- A distributed system kept in sync by a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism
- VM features that allow developers to build more powerful programs on the Monad platform
- Identify bottlenecks through profiling, and evaluating design choices for accelerating computation flow
- Maintain a technical desk via code reviews, driving architectural decisions, or aligning stakeholders
- Tech stack: C++, rust, clang, LLVM, gdb, perf, unix, git
Our take
Category Labs is building a high-performance smart contract platform to bring world adoption to decentralized apps. It combines performance (10,000 transactions per second) with portability (full compatibility for Ethereum smart contracts) and leverages innovation in parallel execution and distributed consensus. This is set to radically improve the capabilities and cost of decentralized computation.
The company has built a broad coalition of financial support to help along its journey. After recently raising $225M in a series A funding led by Paradigm, and other leaders in the crypto space, the company is focused on hiring.
The blockchain opens up numerous possibilities for developers. As a globally shared ledger, it can function as a worldwide sandbox for app development, allowing developers to build new apps that are combined with other apps seamlessly. The main constraints to this are cost and computing power. Category Labs (formerly Monad Labs) hopes to overcome these constraints with a new blockchain offering speeds far higher than any existing platform.
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Insights
333% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2024
$225m
SERIES A
Feb 2023
$19m
SEED
Total funding: $244m
Company benefits
- Fitness reimbursement
- Office equipment reimbursement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- NYC office featuring oversized standing desks, daily lunch, unlimited snacks, bike storage and even a shower!
- Regular team outings
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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