Agora is hiring a

Web3 Smart Contract Engineer

About Agora

Agora is working towards a new paradigm for group collaboration by creating the tools for communities to work together onchain. This is not yet-another-productivity-saas. We believe that to enable the next era of collaboration, we need software that can bend current and create new incentives. No amount of removing friction will change how we work together if our reward functions are misaligned.

Agora is working tirelessly on the best end-to-end governance platform for crypto protocols – the first instance of at-scale onchain collaboration. Leading communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, and more rely on Agora to coordinate their community around critical protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, and steward their ecosystem for the future.

But that’s not where we stop. Our goal is to build deep collaboration tools for people who couldn’t care less about crypto so that one day (soon), your friends back home are using Agora without ever knowing we’re on Ethereum.

What You'll Do:

We are looking for an exceptional smart contract engineer to advance our governance smart contracts. You'll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and client-facing teams to deliver scalable solutions that support key crypto protocols.

• Write great code: Write clear, maintainable, and secure smart contract code.
• Design and architect solutions: Architect modular and upgradeable smart contract solutions for Agora Governor, tackling complex governance challenges on both EVM and non-EVM chains.
• Be security minded first: Lead rigorous testing, auditing, and penetration tests to ensure bulletproof contracts.
• Design with earnest partners: Partner with leading clients (Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, Scroll) to design governance features aligned with their unique ecosystems.
• Stay hungry and foolish: Stay ahead with emerging tech like MACI private voting, ZK-proofs (e.g., Succinct's SP1 zkVM), WorldID integration, and novel governance structures.

Some projects you will work on:

• Private Voting: Implement advanced privacy solutions like Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI), secure TEE compute and other privacy first solutions into new and existing governance systems.
• zkProofs and governance: Integrate cutting-edge zk systems (e.g., Succinct’s SP1 zkVM) to enhance scalability and privacy and unlock new features not before possible.
• Cross chain governance and execution: Many protocols live and govern on multiple chains, be at the cutting edge designing solutions for these unique and complex workflows.
• Identity: Work with identity verification systems such as WorldID for secure, verified governance participation.
• Advanced staking and participation models: Work on veTokens and other staking incentive based governance systems.
• Modular governance: Build and ship modular components for the next generation of governance platforms.

Agora's Contract Stack: Foundry is our core Solidity toolchain, powering our development lifecycle from testing to deployment. Familiarity with Foundry’s build, testing, scripting, and debugging capabilities is essential to success at Agora.

Agora's Core Values

• Pick Up the Trash: Leave the docs, the code and the culture better than when you found it.
  
  
• Operate in Zone 4: Push yourself to work hard but at a sustainable pace.
  
  
• You Have the Ball: You are the logos who brings order to chaos.

Ideal Candidate

• Critical thinker: You see beyond today's challenges, shaping the future of decentralized governance.
  
  
• Attentive to details: You love getting into the weeds and making all the tests go green.
  
  
• Protocol curious: Fluent in major crypto protocols, design patterns, and governance standards.
  
  
• Onchain builder: Passionate about bringing the world onchain and love exploring new technologies like ZK proofs, account abstraction, and Layer 2 innovations.
  
  
• Open source lover: Active contributor to open-source communities.
  
  
• A passion for governance: Deeply passionate about decentralization, onchain governance, and blockchain collaboration.
  
  

What we Offer

Ownership – both in responsibility and equity. We’re a small team with high trust and expectations of each other. We want you to own a sizeable chunk of of the product and company, and structure our compensation accordingly.

Competitive benefits – we offer health, vision and dental benefits.

A strong team – we’re a small team that values experience, character and integrity. You’ll work with peers you respect, and who respect you.

A seat at the table – you will come to all offsites, and be part of all strategic discussions. We’re hiring for a technical leader, and will treat you as such

A path to grow – our goal is to retain all early hires as senior leaders as the company scales. We believe folks with the best expertise and deep context should lead organizations, even if they don’t traditionally self-identify as people managers.

Location

Agora operates as a remote, distributed team with headquarters in San Francisco. We gather quarterly for full-team offsites held in various locations across the country. Although our team is globally distributed, we work during US-friendly hours, specifically in the PST/EST time zones.

www.agora.xyz