Senior Back-End Engineer

Gelato is Web3’s premier automation network, enabling developers to automate arbitrary smart contract executions on and across all EVM based compatible blockchains such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon and many more.

Today, Gelato executes thousands of transactions every day and is used by some of the most widely used decentralized applications in crypto as the underlying infrastructure to automate DeFi, NFT and gaming use cases including limit orders on AMMs, interest compounding or automated petting of NFT pets.

Video the founders, the team and why we created Gelato.

Intro:

Join our team and work directly with the founders to build the future of Automation for the upcoming decentralized web. Enjoy a lot of perks, travel with us to cool events and participate in amazing off-side retreats with the team!

Participate in creating the most sophisticated crypto bot network ever created by designing the smart contracts that will rule them all!

We are a fully remote team and although we hire globally, there is a strong preference for this role to be based in Central Europe.

What we offer:

• A fully remote team with team members in Zug, Paris, New York, Berlin, and many other cool places
• Join the “Gelato Legendary Member Club” and work directly with the founders
• Participate in building the infrastructure that aims to become the glue between all crypto networks and power the most promising dapps on Ethereum and beyond
• Generous Token Package - Get a share of the network’s token and be able to participate in the Gelato DAO
• Chance to participate in shaping the future of web3 by working together with the biggest projects in this space, such as MakerDAO, Connext, Quickswap and many more
• Worldclass Investors - We are backed by top class VCs and Angels including Dragonfly, Galaxy Digital, ParaFi, Gnosis, Stani Kulechov and many more!

Responsibilities:

• Building a scalable a decentralized network of nodes that execute tens of thousands of transactions every day
• Designing and implementing new features within the product such as threshold signatures schemes, trust minimized off-chain computation, token staking
• Integrate a variety of different blockchain networks in one client
• Thinking creatively about attack vectors, possible failures, and disaster scenarios, modeling them in reproducible test environments, and developing fixes
• Modeling and developing recovery behaviors within our core node software
• Implementing resilient distributed systems to achieve extremely high reliability in a variety of blockchain environments

Requirements:

• 4 years experience with either Node.js and / or Golang
• B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering or related technical field
• Experience with distributed systems and/or container orchestration
• You can work with high autonomy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus:

• Knowledge about the inner workings of the EVM
• Experience with Solidity
• Experience in building and running bots that interact with smart contracts on Ethereum
• Knowledge about Ethereum Client & Mining software

Technologies we use and teach:

• Node.js
• Golang
• Typescript
• Redis
• AWS
• Ethers.js

Perks:

• Work very autonomously
• Generous GEL token package
• Competitive Salary
• Work together with one of the best technical teams on Ethereum
• Build relationships with top blockchain teams which are already Gelato users, including MakerDAO, Instadapp, Zerion, Quickswap and many more
• Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events and connect with key players in this industry
• Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world