Blockchain Engineer, Matter Labs
+ Equity & Token package
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Ethereum R&D and scaling solutions
Open for applications
Ethereum R&D and scaling solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity & Token package
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the mass adoption of crypto for financial sovereignty.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about building innovative and scalable Web3 applications and have experience designing world-class systems, we would love to hear from you!
- 3+ years in backend software development and a deep understanding of software engineering best practices and architectures
- Experience in Web3 and a track record of success
- Passion for our mission to advance personal freedom for all
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ownership mindset
- Excellent understanding of Ethereum
- Ability to thrive solo thinking through complex problems just as much as collaborating with partners
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Extra points: understanding of the EVM, experience with dev tools, experience building protocols, experience with rust
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Blockchain Engineer to be at the forefront of real-world blockchain adoption. This role uniquely combines deep engineering skills with great interpersonal skills and plays a key part in our strategy to onboard the next billion users
- Be a goal-oriented developer, diving deeply into our codebase to solve problems spanning our smart contracts to our core node
- Conduct independent research in your area of ownership, design, implement, and document partner-oriented solutions to our core technology
- Combine great engineering skills with great interpersonal skills to onboard the biggest companies in both Web3 and Web2
- Collaborate closely and often with core engineers, product, business, and external development entities in order to affect change
- Develop a strong understanding of the value zkSync brings to the world derived by a true mastery of the technology
- Help partners dive into the ZK Stack and design their products
- Work with DeFi Blue Chips to help them deploy on zkSync Era
Our take
While the Ethereum network offers users highly rated security, the trade off is that its network volume doesn’t have enough capacity to allow for fast and cheap transactions. Matter Labs is one of a small number of companies that are building scaling protocols through its zero-knowledge proof driven product, zkSync.
It’s not the only company of its kind, with the likes of Arbitrum and Optimism also receiving plenty of publicity and funding. However, Matter Labs zero-knowledge proof approach has been praised for both its transaction speed and security. If it was easy however, many more companies would be doing it, so it appears that Matter Labs has made a significant headstart on the competition.
Over the last couple of years, the startup has secured some major funding from high-profile investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Union Square Ventures. Matter Labs released its recently renamed ZkSync Era - a zero-knowledge, open-source security platform on Ethereum in 2023. Matter Labs is predicting zero-knowledge cryptography to outlive alternative "optimistic" security tech from the likes of Arbitrum.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $258m
Company benefits
- Remote working
- Equity options
- Annual pay raise
- 28 work days of paid vacation
- 10 days of paid sick leave / year
Company values
- Freedom
- Ownership
- Communication
Company HQ
George Town, George Town
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Leadership
Alex Gluchowski
(CEO)Has co-founded two previous startups, wellbeing platform Somuchmore (acquired by Urbansportsclub), and camper-rental startup PaulCamper.
Alexandr Vlasov
(R&D Head)Electrical Engineering PhD. Former Chief Research Scientist at BANKEX Foundation.
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