Paxoslabs
Smart Contract Engineer
In-Person or Remote | NYC Preferred . Posted 12 months ago
The role
A Smart Contract Engineer will research and design novel protocol mechanisms around vaults, lending, and other DeFi primitives. You will develop solidity contracts and maintain organizational and security standards for an open source codebase.
What you will do
- Research and design novel protocol mechanisms around vaults, lending, and other DeFi primitives.
- Lead protocol design decision making considering tradeoffs across trust assumptions and efficiency.
- Develop solidity contracts and produce comprehensive test suites for the protocol.
- Maintain exemplary organizational and security standards for an open source codebase.
Required qualifications
- Deep knowledge in Lending codebases—Compound, Aave, Morpho Blue, MakerDAO, Euler, EVC, Liquity, Pendle.
- Deep knowledge in Vaults codebases—Yearn V3, Metamorpho / Morpho V2, BoringVaults, ERC7540, Centrifuge, etc.
- Familiarity with AMMs or solver networks—CoW Protocol, UniswapX, 1inch, Uniswap V3/V4.
- Familiarity with RFQs—Hashflow, 1inch RFQ, or off-chain exchange systems (including TradFi)
- Experience shipping production Solidity smart contract code to mainnet.
- Experience developing and maintaining tests for smart contract code i.e. unit testing, fork testing, fuzzing, invariant testing (Foundry invariants or Echidna).
- Familiarity with other smart contract development languages and frameworks such as, Vyper, Rust, Cairo, or Cosmasm.
- Experience as an active degen / investor / user in these DeFi protocols.
Nice to have
- Experience with smart contract development tools such as Foundry
- Personal experience in CTFs, gas golfing, hackathons.
- Personal experience in blockchain architecture beyond solidity i.e. Rollups,
- Personal experience as a degen/investor/user in DeFi protocols.
- Personal experience in blockchain architecture beyond smart contracts i.e. node operations, rollup design, zero-knowledge proofs.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Participate in directly in ownership structures that provide top-of-the-line benefits
Before you apply
- Once we receive your application, we'll be in touch if we are interested.
About the company
Paxos Labs builds enterprise infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted onchain financial products. They work with the largest financial enterprises in the world to build transparent and verifiable onchain infrastructure.