Axel Jobs

The Role

Axel is building out smart contract infrastructure to scale our financial infrastructure. As one of our first smart contract engineers, you will be joining a team of hyper talented engineers to architect and build protocol infrastructure, proxy and interface contracts, open-source smart contract libraries, and more. You'll be responsible for bringing the same level of security, speed, and stability from our existing financial infrastructure platform to our smart contract infrastructure. The contracts you build will quickly become a platform for thousands of teams to millions of users globally.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Building out Axel’s core smart contract adapters and proxy/interface contracts to support our API, as well as public smart contract libraries
• Architecture and design of smart contracts with an emphasis on readability, security, performance, and scalability
• Drive standardization in crypto protocols by defining and designing seamless interfaces
• Write, deploy, and test secure smart contracts and maintain them in production
• Build secure smart contract protocols and backend services to support Axel’s APIs and connect Axel’s developers with the decentralized finance ecosystem
• Mentor other engineers in high leverage Solidity/EVM topics and best practices
• Develop and take ownership on best practices for EVM protocol upgrades and versioning across different networks

What We're Looking For

• 2-4 years of backend development experience
• 1-2 years of Solidity smart contract development, including mainnet production deployments of non-trivial protocols and related security audits
• BS/BA in Computer Science or a technically related field
• Proficiency with Solidity, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), wallet interfaces, and RPCs
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining high traffic smart contracts
• Experience with cutting edge developer tools, such as Hardhat, Foundry, Solmate, Ganache, and/or Truffle is preferred
• Ability to balance shipping quickly with building secure, robust, scalable infrastructure
• Experience working with startups and fast-paced, ambitious environments
• Passion for decentralized finance and blockchains
• A “can-do” hustler mentality, being a former founder, or building side projects is a huge plus!

Axel focuses on SaaS, Developer APIs, and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a small team that's between 1-10 employees.

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