Software Engineer, Smart Contracts
Espresso Systems is the lead developer of Espresso, a global confirmation layer designed to enhance cross-chain composability by providing fast and reliable transaction confirmations. Espresso confirmations help reduce finality risk and prevent issues like sequencer equivocation, making it easier for applications to operate across multiple chains. The network is currently in its Mainnet 0 release and supports various functionalities, including fast confirmations, decentralized sequencing, and low-cost data availability. At Espresso Systems, we work with leading teams developing chains, rollups, and applications including Offchain Labs, Polygon, Cartesi, RARI Chain, and beyond—all united in our mission to build an open Web3 experience without silos for all users. The Espresso team comprises a diverse and passionate group of contributors from around the world. We are developers, designers, and researchers who have contributed in academia, in open source communities, in policymaking, and beyond. We are backed by over $50m in funding from leading investors in technology and crypto including a16z, Greylock Partners, Electric Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Polychain Capital. As a smart contract software engineer, you will closely collaborate with fellow engineers and researchers to build the blockchain infrastructure needed to bring Espresso's scalability infrastructure to the Ethereum ecosystem. Examples of work include implementing smart contracts to manage the HotShot proof-of-stake consensus mechanism underpinning the Espresso Sequencer and utilizing our cryptographic primitives to verify the Espresso Sequencer's state efficiently on the blockchain.
Responsibilities
- Handle entire lifecycle of EVM smart contracts: design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance and monitoring
- Work with external/internal auditors to evaluate the security of smart contracts
- Take engineering projects from concept and design to production, while working with engineering leaders and the product team to create sound and realistic roadmaps
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent blockchain/smart contract development experience
- Proficiency in Solidity and inline assembly (especially memory layout, memory operations, and precompiles)
- Knowledge of Ethereum ecosystem including EIPs, ERCs
- Familiarity with ecosystem tools like foundry, alloy-rs, hardhat
- Familiarity with commonly used solidity libraries: OpenZeppelin library, Solady library etc.
- Understanding of software engineering and security best practices, in particular smart contract security
- Experience interacting with dapps/web3
- Experience shipping and taking engineering projects to production
- Enthusiasm for the industry is a must!
Preferred
- Professional experience in Rust, preferably with visible contributions to open-source projects.
- Experience working on blockchain infrastructure
- Experience with interoperability protocols
Benefits
- Fully remote with flexible hours
- Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
- Competitive salary + equity package
- Regular team off-sites to international locations
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage for US employees