Fractional is hiring a

Web3 Smart Contract Engineer - US Remote (ET)

Salary Range:
$95k - $165k + equity

NOTE: Actual offer will vary based on applicant location / cost of living, skillsets, and level of relevant experience

About the company:

Time zones:
Eastern (UTC -05:00) and Central European UTC (+1:00)

Fractional provides ownership of the world’s most sought after NFTs! Working at Fractional, you will be building on the cutting edge of NFTs and DeFi to help shape the future of collecting NFTs.
You will get to work, learn and grow with an experienced team supported by incredible partnerships and committed investments from developers, collectors, investors, and thought leaders who are deeply passionate about the decentralization ecosystem.

More practically, Fractional is a decentralized, permission-less protocol where NFT owners can mint tokenized fractional ownership of their NFTs. These tokens then function as normal ERC20 tokens and the owners can distribute them however they would like. You can read more from our medium posts here: https://medium.com/fractional-art

About the role:

As a smart contract engineer, you will be responsible for supporting the build of a range of new developments, aspects, and technical enhancements to the fractional protocol, which may include:

Mechanism and modular smart contract designs

Building layer 2 scaling integrations, such as support for Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum

Bridging support for other networks non-EVM (e.g., Flow/Cadence, Solana/Rust)

Developing new smart contracts not yet hypothesized

Our fast-paced, agile development environment will require a penchant for task management and respect for efficient, best practice development principles as well!

Our Evolving Tech Stack
Front End: HTML, CSS, JS, Vue.js
Back End: Redis, MySQL, Node.js
Infrastructure: DigitalOcean, AWS (S3), Cloudfront
Automated testing: ~under construction~
Web3: Solidity/Ethereum
Integrations: browser-based crypto wallets such as MetaMask, APIs

What to expect

• Make a HUGE impact helping to bring ideas to reality as a core member of a lean, passionate, and friendly team
• Work within a dynamic team, who challenges the status quo and champions agile working plus continuous improvement

What we’re looking for

• 2+ years of development experience with at least one significant deployment of production-level smart contract code
• Prior experience in leading/mentoring software engineering teams
• Deep understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine
• Prior experience in deploying complex smart contract systems to the Ethereum mainnet
• Well versed in understanding all typical attack vectors
• Deep understanding of various DeFi protocols
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• Ability to derive the information from a research paper, whitepaper, technical paper, litepaper, etc.
• Excellent writing skills and the ability to drive via influence
• Can operate with a high degree of autonomy and should be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Bonus points for

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field
• Backend, API development, and NFT metadata experience
• Previous experience in a rapidly scaling start-up environment
• Previous experience at a major tech company

What we're offering

• Competitive salary (and equity) in an exciting space driving disruptive innovation
• The opportunity to accelerate our growing organization
• A remote work environment with competitive benefits and holidays
• Crypto native colleagues that want to change the world!
• 7 additional company holidays, including all-company week-long winter break
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance for US-based employees
• Agile working environment with flexible working hours and location, career advancement, and competitive compensation package
• Optional social events to help our employees become familiar with each other and our culture

If you’re convinced you are the right fit and you can’t wait to join our team, we look forward to hearing from you!

Once you've applied, please be patient :) it may take us up to 1-2 weeks to get back to you!

Please kindly include a link to your github as well!

Fractional focuses on Digital Media, Art, Blockchains, and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in New York City, United States, and Remote. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.

You can view their website at https://fractional.art/ or find them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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