📝 DRAFT — Senior Full-Stack Engineer at EI Ventures

About the Job

e^{i} Ventures - Building the future of Decentralized Finance

About Us / Overview:

We are an innovative startup studio focused on decentralized applications. We work with brilliant founders and incubate ideas in-house, eventually spinning them out as individual companies. At EIV you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most incredible ideas in DeFi and crypto. You will be responsible for guiding multiple startups from 0 to 1.

Role and Responsibilities:

We are hiring a senior web3 full-stack engineer to work with founders in our incubation program.

You will be in charge of architecting the MVPs of products being built by founders in our program and taking them from 0 to 1. At any point of time, you will be working on 2-3 projects simultaneously. We expect you to have a deep desire to learn about new decentralized technology platforms (eg. polkadot, cosmos, algorand, solana) as needed for any project. You will work closely with our co-founders and will shape the future of our firm.

Full-time and remote. No preference in location. Additional compensation in terms of bonus and equity will be discussed on a per-candidate basis.

What you will do:

Write state-of-the-art smart contracts on Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Polkadot, Binance Smart Chain (roughly in that order) or any other chain we work on. Must have the ability to pick up on new smart contract platforms quickly and work with the bridges between chains.
Ensure that dapps are tested thoroughly via e2e tests
Contribute to other open-source projects that we integrate with
Work in close collaboration with several teams on product architecture and design
What you bring:

Senior-level React (or other front-end library) development experience. Familiarity with databases and full-stack frameworks.
Expertise in Solidity, EVM, and smart contract design (or equivalent experience in any other smart contract platform)
Strong desire to build decentralized and open source software
Passion for learning new technology and tackling novel technical problems
Excellent English communication skills
“Nice to have”:

A general knowledge of DeFi protocols. Have used several DeFi products (Uniswap, Compound, etc.)
Existing contributions to open-source software products
Higher degrees in Computer Science or equivalent