Software Engineer, Aptos Labs
Programming Languages
$180-300k
+ Equity
Building Layer 1 blockchain
Job no longer available
Building Layer 1 blockchain
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-300k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.
Role
Who you are
- We are welcoming highly skilled applicants through all seniority levels. Talk with us if you enjoy working on one or more of the topics below, and bring the expertise to do so with
- Experience with language design and compiler construction
- Experience in developing virtual machines and runtime environments
- Experience in program analysis and program productivity tools
- Experience in symbolic execution and mechanical reasoning, SMT techniques and formal verification
- Experience in language security and fuzzing tools
What the job involves
- As part of the Programming Languages team, you will be responsible for advancing the state of the art of the Move language platform. This includes evolving the design of the language together with the Move community, as well as contributing to a wide spectrum of tools from improving security for Move up to better developer usability
- You will be closely working with the Aptos framework team which develops smart contracts in Move, as well as the larger community of Aptos Move developers
- Evolving the design and implementation (compiler, VM) of the Move language, together with the larger Move community
- Enhancing the integration of the Move VM into the Aptos environment, interacting with our internal and external Move developer community
- Working on tools for testing, formal verification (Move Prover), static analysis, and runtime verification for Move
- Working on tools for bug finding in safe Rust programs
- Working on IDE integrations of Move and other development tools
- Working on core Move libraries and their native implementations
Our take
Despite launching in just 2021, Aptos has soared to Unicorn status following an impressive funding round that saw major participation from players like PayPal Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. It's the company’s promise to build a layer 1 blockchain that has attracted all this attention as it outperforms competitors on critical metrics like scaleability and speed.
Aptos is created by the team behind Facebook’s recently shuttered cryptocurrency endeavor Diem (previously Libra), who left the company when Diem sold its tech assets to Silvergate Capital. Now, Silvergate Capital is itself an investor in the new project. This goes to show the confidence the Aptos' team commands, and the increasingly mainstream industry appetite for a blockchain that can sustain major operations.
Developers from companies like Binance, Anchorage, and Coinbase are already part of Aptos. This talent, in combination with 2024 VC funding and its remarkable 2022 Series A, will fuel the team’s progress and is a hugely promising start for the young venture.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
110% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2022
$150m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$200m
SEED
Total funding: $350m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work coverage
- Health insurance coverage
- Equipment of your choice
- Unlimited Vacation time
- Competitive Salary
- Stock options
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Mo Shaikh
(Co-Founder)Previously held various analyst positions at companies like KPMG, Royal Bank of Canada, BlackRock, and BCG. Subsequently directed strategy at ConsenSys alongside founding and leading Meridio, then worked on strategic partnerships at Novi (Meta).
Avery Ching
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo!, Facebook, and then for the crypto platform team at Novi (Meta). Has also spent over a decade as VP of Apache Giraph.
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