Ethena Labs is hiring a

Senior Web3 Engineer (Full-Stack)

Ethena Labs is building the first ETH based delta-neutral stablecoin. Arthur Hayes is a founding advisor and the team has deep experience across traditional finance and crypto engineering from firms such as Cerberus, Wintermute, Aave, Blockdaemon and Kaiko. Backed by the top exchanges and trading entities in the space.

We are building derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transform into the Global Internet Bond via delta-neutral derivatives positions, to create the first crypto-native, yield bearing stablecoin: USDe.

We believe creating a stablecoin which is not reliant on existing banking infrastructure is the single most important product in crypto today.

USDe will form the first part of a broader ecosystem of products we are building including money markets, and internal trade matching between product lines.

Join us!!

Who We are Looking For:

• An Engineer who is passionate about building products/applications within Defi.
• Individual who is excited by the opportunity to join an early stage team and drive a product from zero to one.
• At least 2 years of experience in developing front-ends for live blockchain apps or smart contracts and can provide examples of prior work.
• An individual who is curious and always looking to learn new techniques and methods on the overlap between frontier technology and financial concepts.

Responsibilities:

• You will work on our React Web3 application, which enables users to mint and stake USDe, as well as our off-chain backend python infrastructure which listens for events, manages custody positions, routes orders, etc.
• Working directly with custody and exchange providers to build information on the ongoing solvency and equity positions of internal accounts.
• Creative license to push the boundaries of Defi design.
• Collaborate with the team and cross-functional partners on all aspects of product development including smart contract back-end engineers and mentor team members to refine their technical and architectural skills

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of full-stack, modern Javascript: React and Typescript
• Strong Python skills
• Expert knowledge of Web3 libraries and tools like, Ethers.JS, Wagmi, Hardhat, The Graph etc
• Familiarity with writing basic Smart Contracts with Solidity
• Basic understanding of infrastructure required for frontend/servers: CDN, Cloudflare or similar, webservers.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken

Our Engineering Stack:

• Frontend: React, NextJS, Wagmi, Viem, TailwindCSS
• Backend: Python, Solidity, SQL, GraphQL, DGraph, Docker, AWS, Ethereum.

$125,000 - $175,000 a year

If you subscribe to the mission " To provide access to trustless, globally accessible and secure, money & savings" then we want to hear from you!

We look forward to receiving your application and will be in touch after having a chance to review.