Senior Software Engineer, Category Labs
Low-Latency Systems
$200-230k
Plus 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
$200-230k
Plus 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
- Candidates with experience developing systems with lean memory and compute limits are an ideal match
- Resourceful and self-motivated
- Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator
- Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
- Opinionated about software architecture
- Motivated to push the limits of system performance through repeated optimization
- Interested in building high-value fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Years of C++ development experience
- HFT or embedded systems development, such as writing software for packet processing, communication, codecs, robotics, etc
- Excellent instincts for software architecture
- Knowledge of performance optimization/profiling tools
- Knowledge of proper memory management
- Knowledge of unix, shell scripting, and python
- Ideal but not required: Bachelors in technical field; 5 years’ experience
What the job involves
- Monad Labs is looking for strong software engineers who enjoy solving challenging performance engineering and low-level optimizations problems
- You will be part of a small, deeply technical team, working on high-impact problems in a fast-paced environment. Although we are building a new blockchain, previous experience with crypto is not expected
- Optimizing a high-performance multithreaded stack-based VM, as well as ancillary functionality (disk I/O, computation metering, network)
- Identifying bottlenecks through profiling, and evaluate design choices for accelerating computation flow
- Designing and implementing architecture improvements
- Contributing to developer tooling
- Tech stack: C++, 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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