Senior Backend Engineer, Risk Labs
$100-200k
+ Token options
Building decentralized financial systems
Posted today
Building decentralized financial systems
1-20 employees
Posted today
$100-200k
+ Token options
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make global markets universally fair, accessible, secure and decentralized.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a person who loves optimizing and building at the intersection of technology, finance, and data
- 4+ years full-time experience in Software Engineering at a software, financial services or related technology organization
- 2+years of experience with blockchain-based projects (hackathons or personal projects as well)
- Experience with databases, networking, and data pipelines is strongly preferred
- Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
- Deep interest in software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on
- Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and clean code
- Passion for blockchain technology, cryptonomic protocol design, game theory, and decentralized finance
- Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written
- Language experience is not as important as your demonstrated ability to learn quickly but our language stack is simply: Typescript, Solidity, GCP
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Across protocol team. You’d be working alongside top tier engineering talent, world class data driven product development, and a team motivated to be hugely impactful for the exciting interoperable future that we’re racing towards
- Building backend services: Build highly available backend systems, both serverless and persistent. These systems should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and anti-fragility
- Indexing complex onchain data: Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access. Gas efficient protocols rely on indexing to keep user experiences snappy and pleasant
- Data engineering: Design and develop large-scale data pipelines to drive our understanding of our users and our protocol’s real-world performance
- Building bots and smart contracts: Build bots and other services whose primary role is to monitor smart contracts and send transactions. You will be responsible for building infrastructure that is responsible for company and user funds
- Code review and mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. As much of your day will be spent reviewing and designing code as it will be writing new code. We take pride in writing clean code
Our take
Risk Labs is the foundation and core team behind UMA, Across. The company has set out to build a decentralized blockchain ecosystem, rooted in verifiable truth and transparency, making crypto more usable, accessible, and efficient. UMA was one of the earliest protocols to emerge within the decentralized finance sector and it (along with Across) is supported by the second biggest crypto network, Ethereum.
While Risk Labs itself has not raised funding since 2018, efforts have been made to raise capital for its other entities. These rounds have been very successful, such as Across' $10M raise in late 2022. It’s significant that well-known early-stage VC Two Sigma Ventures has invested in the entire umbrella of companies.
The company has nearly tripled in size since 2020, and remains focused on hiring as it is set to roll out new product launches and upgrades to its projects (such as UMA 2.0).
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2018
$4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $4m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Environment
- Unlimited PTO
- Family Care Leave
- Yearly Team Off-Site
- Training & Development
Leadership
Hart Lambur
(Director)Co-founder of UMA. Founder & former CEO of Openfolio. Previously worked in Investment Rate Trading for Goldman Sachs.
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