Hardhat Jobs

Location: Remote (Global)
Type: Full-Time
Experience: 15+ years in engineering or technical leadership roles
Compensation: Competitive + Equity + Token Allocation

🧠 About D-LOOP

D-LOOP is building the next generation of AI-governed, asset-backed stablecoin infrastructure. We’re a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) powering D-AI, a fully collateralized digital currency managed through on-chain proposals and AI-driven governance.

At the frontier of DeFi, AI, and DAO coordination, D-LOOP offers a programmable monetary system that is secure, transparent, and constantly evolving.

Now, we’re looking for a Chief Technology Officer to join our Co-founding team and lead our technical strategy and execution as we scale.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and evolve D-LOOP’s technical vision across Ethereum smart contracts, AI integrations, and DAO tooling
  
  
• Oversee the architecture and security of on-chain systems (Solidity-based Treasury DAO and Protocol DAO)
  
  
• Guide and grow a team of smart contract, frontend, and AI developers
  
  
• Collaborate with product, governance, and community teams to deliver features on the d-loop roadmap
  
  
• Ensure long-term maintainability, performance, and modularity (leveraging EigenLayer, Chainlink, and more)
  
  
• Contribute to critical codebases when needed—particularly in Solidity
  

🧩 Required Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of software engineering and/or technical leadership experience
  
  
• Proven experience designing and deploying Ethereum smart contracts in Solidity
  
  
• Deep understanding of DeFi architecture, DAO mechanisms, and smart contract security
  
  
• Familiarity with Ethereum tooling (Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js, etc.)
  
  
• Ability to assess trade-offs across decentralization, performance, and governance
  
  
• A track record of delivering in high-stakes, production-grade environments
  
• 🌟 Nice-to-Have Skills

• Proficiency in React, Node.js, and Vite (our frontend stack)
  
  
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML systems (Python, inference pipelines, agents)
  
  
• Familiarity with EigenLayer, Chainlink, or cross-chain interoperability frameworks
  
  
• Contributor to open-source protocols or DAO tooling

💼 Why Join D-LOOP?

• Build at the edge of AI and DeFi
  
  
• Work alongside forward-thinking engineers, economists, and governance designers
  
  
• Influence a growing protocol from the ground up
  
  
• Participate meaningfully in protocol ownership through equity and token allocations
  
  
• Shape the future of decentralized monetary systems