Developer Relations Engineer

At cLabs, the team working on the open source platform Celo, our mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.

Celo aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. The first application launched on the Celo platform, Valora, is a social payments and money transfer app, aimed at developing markets.

cLabs is seeking a Developer Relations Engineer to join our Developer Relations team. As a Developer Relations Engineer partner you will be key to building excitement and interest in the Celo Developer Platform through producing interesting and relevant projects and programs that guide developers of varying experience levels and backgrounds to the Celo Ecosystem.

About us

• We are experienced startup founders and operators
• We are mission-driven with a big goal: to bring sound currency and property rights to those who need it most
• We are fast-paced and loosely-structured, with a number of offices and a growing team
• We are a full-stack solution i.e. we are building both blockchain protocols and the applications that deliver end-user experiences on top of them
• We are highly technical, with an accomplished team dedicated to learning and pushing boundaries
• We have a strong engineering culture, which values open-source

You will

• Own the relationship with developers building on top of Celo, from building awareness and driving adoption through to supporting established users
• Design, implement, and improve the Celo mobile and web 2.0 developer experience.
• Code integrations, example apps, and contribute to SDKs, bugs and enhancements
• Write clear documentation, compelling tutorials, and engaging videos
• Develop and deliver content, presentations that resonate with the community
• Drive and participate in developer workshops and other external events
• Help organize, build and train local developer communities and university developer groups
• Encourage and celebrate diversity in the communities you build
• Represent the community externally and internally and influence the product (SDK) team with your insights
• Work closely with the cLabs product, engineering and community teams

You have

• 3+ experience working as a software engineer or engineering-focused developer advocate
• Ability to distill complex concepts into easy to understand explanations
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Deep understanding of open-source development and communities
• An intuition for what makes a good developer experience
• Published technical articles and/or given technical presentations
• Bonus: You’ve launched a mobile app and deployed a smart contract on Ethereum or other blockchains. You have deployed your own ERC-20, ERC-721.
• Bonus: You’ve built a native or mobile app or PWA website that interacts directly with a web3 smart contract.
• Bonus: You’ve launched something on Celo.

cLabs (“Celo Labs”) started Celo in 2017 and is one of many contributors to the open source project Celo. cLabs builds financial technology to enable prosperity of all beings.

cLabs is a Teal organization, a method of decentralized management and organizational governance. Roles are defined around the work, not people, and there is a high degree of autonomy. As such, we’re all proud to hold the job title of “Partner.” For more information on our culture, we encourage you to check out our blog.

To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)celo.org. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.