Smart Contract Engineer

Our mission is to make financial markets universally fair and accessible.

Who is UMA?

We are a team, driven by a shared belief that financial markets should be universally accessible. Our goal is to enable anyone to attain or transfer any form of financial risk, thus empowering everyone to participate in a universally accessible financial system. We make building products in the DeFi world easy so that anyone is empowered to build and use the financial products they want. Our team is relatively small but incredibly mighty, and strives to be an engaging leader in the DeFi community.

Where do you fit in? We’re looking for a Senior Smart Contract Engineer to join our team. You’ll have an opportunity to work across our entire Ethereum-based web3 stack on cutting-edge technology that reshapes the global financial system.

Responsibilities:

• Protocol Architecture: Research and develop protocol upgrades and new financial concepts.
• Smart Contracts: Implement designs with a focus on security, simplicity, ease of use, and gas-efficiency.
• Code Review and Mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. In depth reviews of others’ contributions is expected with a focus on helping others grow their technical expertise.
• Bots: write off-chain code to interact with and manage smart contracts. Bot systems should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and antifragility.

Skills & Qualifications:

• 2+ years full-time experience in Engineering at a software or financial services technology organization
• 1+ years full-time experience working in solidity or other compiled language
• Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and high quality code
• Passion for blockchain technology, cryptoeconomic protocol design, game theory, or decentralized finance

Our tech stack: Solidity, ethers, hardhat, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, web3, React

Compensation:

• Competitive market research driven salary and token option agreements
• Take vacation when you need it (and we really mean it)
• 100% Remote- which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in
• Training and development policy to allow for diverse growth opportunities
• Meaningful parental leave

Our values:

• We value each individual’s right to economic freedom
• We value openness, honesty, and directness.
• We value integrity.
• We value iterative learning.
• We value taking smart risks.
• We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.

Risk Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.