Acala Jobs

About Acala

Acala's mission is to build and nurture the autonomous financial infrastructure of the decentralized web. Delivering on this mission will bring more financial accessibility, opportunity, and prosperity to everyone on the planet through a new, open financial system.

Our core project is the Acala Network itself, which we expect to become the de facto DeFi parachain and stablecoin of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkadot provides the underlying trust primitives to our parachain, upon which we’ve built our suite of financial primitives including; Multi-collateralized Stablecoin; Trustless Staking Derivatives, and Unified Decentralized Exchange. These primitives will be used by us and other teams to power open DeFi innovations, and burn away all need for the parasitic intermediaries that inhabit almost every conventional trust-based financial system.

We have secured our support from eminent backers like Polychain, Coinbase Venture, Pantera and many more. We’re still preparing Acala’s parachain launch, so there’s no better time to join our mission and be a part of the future that we’re building. Because whoever you are, we’re building it for you 🚀

About the role

As a Designer at Acala your role will be split between UX and UI projects, designing intuitive user experiences and then building beautifully practical interfaces for them. Like many other startups our team is small but powerful, and you’ll always have a few different jobs to do; user research, application wire-framing, some web development to improve our landing pages, and much more. 

You’ll be expected to own and deliver these projects from end-to-end, although you will have lots of help from the rest of the team and our Senior Designer. To be successful you’ll need two things; A strong set of Design methods that you can apply based on your experience; and an understanding of the target users of our applications; the DeFi community. There’s no way to ‘tiptoe into crypto’ and we’ll need you to climb inside the minds of our users, from DeFi n00bs to daily trading experts. If you’re already a DeFi user at any level, then you’ll have an advantage.

Our ideal candidate will have worked in a startup before, and will know what it’s like to work alongside fast-paced company founders. Your experience will be valued and your ideas will be heard - but you’ll need to turn them into actions if you want them taken seriously. We’re very interested in hearing from people who have blockchain application design experience, but a competent and capable (and fun) Designer is our top priority.

Competitive Salary | Full Time | Contract | Remote New Zealand

Our Team

Working across New Zealand, the USA & China, our team has emerged from our shared desire for a fairer and more inclusive financial system - in direct contrast to the clear shortcomings of the current institutions that run the world. We’re just people like you, but we’re some of the leading blockchain innovators, Substrate and Rust developers, full-stack dApp developers and economists.

Our Values

The community we’re building is shaped by our values and fuelled by the needs of all humans:

• Inclusion, Care, Trust, and Respect
• Empowerment
• Guidance and Support
• Friendship, Community, Real Relationships 

We’re building Acala based on a core set of values we believe are in line with the tenets of web3:

• True decentralization
• Less Trust, More Truth
• Integrity
• Accountability
• Empowering individuals with more autonomy 

What We Have Achieved

Acala was founded in 2019 as an early Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and is an ecosystem and education partner of W3F and Polkadot. We have delivered 3 successful live testnet candidates acquiring 14,000 new accounts and 140,000 transactions within the first 3 weeks. And we expect to be among the first to launch on both Kusama and Polkadot in 2021. Stay tuned!

For more information on this position, our employment conditions, or anything Acala related not linked above, get in touch with our Auckland-based Talent Manager: [email protected]

NOTE: To all external Recruiters who have 'exciting profiles' to share with us, please do so knowing that without signed terms & conditions Acala deem any introductions made to be a complimentary courtesy to the development of the Web3 infrastructure. Thank you for your support.