DEV Jobs at DeSo Foundation

The DeSo Foundation is backed by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Social Capital, TQ Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, PolyChain, Pantera, and many others. Our mission is to decentralize social media the same way Bitcoin and Ethereum are decentralizing the financial system.

We are looking for a talented individual that has a passion for Web3 technologies to oversee our developer relations. As a decentralized and open layer 1 blockchain, we are only as strong as the developers that are building on top of it.  

While we have a great base of active developers today, we feel that we have the potential to tap into millions of Web2 developers (in a way that no other layer 1 can) with our new programming paradigm known as ‘Smart Services’.  

This is not an inherently technical role, however an ideal candidate would have the following qualities: - A strong interest in talking to developers and understanding their needs. - A strong interest in blockchain technology, specifically areas like: Consensus mechanisms, DAOs, Fungible/Non Fungible token standards, etc. - Ideally 4-5 years of experience in either operations or program/project management at one or more reputable companies.  - Bonus: Experience working for a Web3 protocol, DAO or other related company. - Bonus: Technical background or experience working on developer platforms.

This role would work closely with our tech evangelist (who focuses on deeper technical areas like developer documentation and videos). Specifically, this person would have the following responsibilities to start:

Primary Responsibilities: - Be the primary point of contact on our partnership with Major League Hacking, helping oversee 200+ student/early career hackathons to 100K+ students around the world. - Run / maintain our partnership with any Web3 organizations we partner with. - Organize the first ever DeSo-run Hackathon. - Be an active voice in the DeSo Foundation discord server.

Secondary Responsibilities: - Vet development grant teams (these are teams that aren’t quite ready for our Octane Fund but show strong signs of progress). - Lean into marketing for developers (help work with our paid ads agencies to put together effective campaigns targeted at developers). - Help produce content for developers (production on developer videos, interview developers, write blog posts, etc).

About DeSo 

Today, social media is even more centralized than the financial industry was prior to the creation of Bitcoin. A handful of private companies effectively control public discourse, and earn monopoly profits off of content that they don't even create. Meanwhile, the creators who actually produce this content are underpaid, under-engaged, and under-monetized thanks to an outdated ads-driven business model. In addition to all of this, the ads-driven business model prevents external developers from innovating or building apps on top of it, and gives users and creators no choice but to continue using apps that solely they control. 

We believe all of these problems can be solved by decentralizing social media in the same way Bitcoin and Ethereum are decentralizing the financial system. If we can start putting social media content into a public blockchain we can create an economy of scale around that blockchain that is powerful enough to rival, and ultimately surpass, what the traditional social media giants have created. 

Enter DeSo, or "decentralized social." 

The future of crypto does not consist of a single general-purpose blockchain that rules them all, but rather a series of dominant, specialized blockchains, each tailored to a particular category of applications. DeSo represents a more than two-year effort to create a blockchain capable of decentralizing the social media category, and we believe it presents the first clear path to solving the existing problems that plague social media today.

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