Smart Contract Engineer
Ritual
Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Netherlands +5 moreremotePosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Competitive compensation with annual discretionary bonus and optimized tax structure
- Top 1% benefits across web3 startup space
- 100% premium healthcare coverage
- Aggressive 401k match
- Fully remote or hybrid work
- Passionate team mission-building next generation of AI infrastructure
Role overview
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with their private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Their first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, bridging these transformative technologies. The company is a lean and agile organization seeking an experienced smart contract engineer to join their team.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining core smart contract frameworks and libraries
- Managing smart-contract release lifecycles; from architecting to audit to post-release
- Spearheading research into novel smart contract functionality beyond the EVM
- Collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, researchers, product managers, and operations teammates to create best-in-class products
Requirements
- General mastery of software engineering principles
- Strong proficiency in Solidity and at least one other non-smart-contract language
- Deep understanding of the EVM and differences across L1/L2/L3 environments
- Familiarity with network node architectures (geth, reth, op-stack, orbit, etc.)
- Experience participating in past smart contract code audits (maintainer or auditor)
- Desire to dive in at the lowest level; experience to know when not to
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities; emphasis on written communication
Nice to have
- Experience with alternative, non-EVM-based execution environments
- Past experience in contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events