Blockchain Jobs in Austin, Texas, United States

About Us

We are a pioneering Web3 company focused on developing innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions. Our mission is to create secure, scalable, and user-friendly blockchain applications that drive the future of finance. Join our dynamic team to shape the Popcorn Protocol and make a significant impact in the blockchain space.

About the Role:

We are looking for a bold, curious engineer with high standards to help us create and maintain smart contracts. You will ensure consistent, high-quality codebases, technical specifications, deployment scripts, and more. This is a full-time position for a developer with 5-10 years of experience in the field.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Specification Design: Participate in the design of technical specifications, technical roadmap, and implementation of the Popcorn Protocol.
• Deployment Scripts: Create deployment scripts to enable tests, protocol configuration presets, and production deployments.
• Quality Assurance: Work with auditors to ensure the quality and safety of the protocol.
• Security Management: Design processes for managing the security of the core Protocol and related applications.
• System Design: Help shape the direction of systems design by defining high-level architecture, principles, and standards within DeFi.
• Code Review and Support: Perform and assist engineers through code reviews, acceptance testing, bug fixing, and general support.

Qualifications

• Experience: 1+ years of experience with Solidity development.
• Development Suite: Experience with development suites such as Hardhat, Dapp, Brownie, or Truffle.
• Contract Libraries: Experience with contract libraries such as Dappsys and OpenZeppelin.
• Blockchain Knowledge: A deep understanding of blockchain fundamentals, common vulnerabilities, and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
• Backend & Frontend Integration: Familiarity with backend development technologies (e.g., Node.js, Python, Go), frontend development technologies (e.g., React, Vue, Next.js), Web3 integration libraries (e.g., Web3.js, Ethers.js), and experience with API development.
• Testing: Experience writing comprehensive test cases and performing rigorous testing of smart contracts to ensure reliability and security.
• Industry and Trend Awareness: An awareness of products and services that leading innovative DeFi projects are offering and how they are implemented in terms of business logic, technology, systems, and software architecture.

Profile Characteristics:

• Familiarity with optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, and L2 bridges.
• Degree in math or computer science.
• An understanding of how smart contract data is consumed by frontends.
• Experience writing smart contracts in languages other than Solidity (e.g., Rust, Vyper), and experience implementing complex math in Solidity.
• Experience in developing decentralized exchanges (DEX) or other DeFi applications.
• Familiarity with containerization and deployment tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Join us and be a part of our dynamic team at BitKernel!