Senior Frontend Engineer / dApp Developer, Aragon
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DAO governance platform
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DAO governance platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower freedom by creating liberating tools that leverage decentralised technologies.
Role
Who you are
- We will only consider candidates with experiencing shipping open source software in the Ethereum ecosystem. You must be eager to help us prove the feasibility and value of onchain governance
- 5+ years experience in Typescript and React.js/Next.js
- Have examples of open source software you've shipped in the Ethereum ecosystem
- Knowledge of design principles, including layouts, aesthetics, and how to work with a UX team and with a design system
- Able to advocate for and enforce good development practices on the team, including testing (unit, integration, e2e), clean code principles, documentation, etc
- Experience working in agile environment, git flows, and are comfortable in the tools (e.g. Jira, Github)
- Excellent English communication - both written and oral
- Passionate about the possibilities of decentralized autonomous organizations and the impacts they may have on how humans work together to solve problems
Desirable
- Experience writing your own smart contracts in Solidity
- Experience working on a project with a module or plugin system
What the job involves
- As frontend engineer at Aragon, you will join our App Team. Aragon App is our application to interface with the Aragon OSx smart contract framework - which is used for creating and managing the next generation of digital organizations
- You understand that there are DAO builders, voters, and degens on the other side, each with their own unique needs, and you are eager to seek feedback from them to better understand what they need to better participate in their DAO
- Taking ownership of a piece of our stack, establishing best practices, and becoming the “go-to” point of contact, while simultaneously mentoring more junior developers along the way
- Coordinate with other domain specialists and departments, further deepening your knowledge of the ever-expanding technologies of web3
- You are actively involved across the discovery and development pipeline, from collaborating with UX/UI designers and creating prototypes to implementation, documentation and guides, deployment, and live maintenance. At each stage of the pipeline, you are focused on high quality delivery
- You use code reviews to better understand your team’s work, improve the quality of our commits, and learn something along the way. During daily standup, you know when you are needed and proactively solve your teammate’s problems
Our take
While there has been a proliferation of decentralised autonomous organisations (DAO) in recent years, the uniquely voluntary organisational structures often have difficulty resolving disputes between members. Aragon was founded to solve this, providing Web3 communities the tools needed to set up a DAO, including the infrastructure to vote on issues, solve disputes and safely raise and pay out funds.
Third party dispute settling is not new in the Web 3 space, with organisations such as Voatz offering blockchain voting. However, competitors have been somewhat lax in security, causing distrust even in decentralised solutions for conflict resolution. Aragon has carefully crafted its product and brought on the support of Tim Draper (who previously backed Tesla, SpaceX and Theranos) in developing its solution. Since then it has grown to create 3800 DAOs with over 300,000 members in total, managing a total value of $300 million between them.
In recent years, Aragon has released its own token to decrease the costs of subsidising contracts. It is now moving to reconstitute itself as a DAO - though it previously served the DAO community, it wasn't yet one itself. It is also focusing on developing its mobile app and SDK to allow its users to create DAOs without any coding. If it is able to continue its growth, it will be well on the way to achieving its goal of becoming the defacto court of the online jurisdiction.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2020
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $1m
Company values
- Aragon is committed to:
- Building organizational forms that defend self-sovereignty — where a user can always exercise choice, either by participating or exiting
- Creating collaboration mechanisms in which violence is not only disincentivized, but impossible
- Decentralizing power in order to dismantle unjustified power — which usually springs from centralization
- The creation of long-term value versus short-term profit — which in turn, advances sustainability
- A world in which every person can participate in these new organizational structures
Company HQ
Zug, ZG
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Leadership
Luis Iván Cuende
(Co-founder)Was also co-founder of Stampery and Unpatent, and was CEO at Aragon One.
Jorge Izquierdo
(Co-founder)Also CEO of Aragon One. Was previously CTO of Unpatent.
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