Smart Contracts Engineer

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Cryptocurrency • Data Science • Simulation Engineering • Blockchain • Ethereum

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Description

• Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. • We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi. • Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis. • We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City. • Gauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. • Aera is a non-custodial, autonomous on-chain asset management protocol that Gauntlet helped develop. • This role is ideal for someone looking to implement a groundbreaking protocol in a nascent category.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in software development. • Proficient at writing code in Python, preferably, but open to other languages. • 2+ years of experience in Solidity smart contract development. • Understanding of blockchain and DeFi protocols, concepts, and best practices. • Experience with EVM based blockchain networks strongly preferred. • Comfortable learning about and contributing to complex DeFi protocols that may involve understanding MEV, trading, incentives, and mechanism design. • Strong communication skills (primarily written) and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment. • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. • Experience with version control systems (i.e., git). • Excitement to work in an early stage setting with significant uncertainty, evolving scope/requirements and many hats to wear

Benefits

• Remote first - work from anywhere! • Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk • 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees • Laptop provided • $1,600 WFH stipend upon joining • $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses • Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data • Unlimited vacation policy • 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks • Fertility benefits