Lead Protocol Engineer

This role focuses on protocol development. Proceed if you’re a hacker at heart, you can work from earliest R&D to final implementation, and these things are of interest to you: rollups, precompiles, predeploys, proof systems, EVM, real people using what you’ve built.

About Eco: 

Eco exists to maximize money’s value — to reclaim value lost to the current financial system and make sure the onchain economy actually bring us money without borders. We expect better from our money, and we want you to as well. That’s what drives us every day.

We focus our work on contributing to the Eco Protocol and building Bend. The Eco Protocol is for stablecoins and the apps that use them — designed from the ground up for the most capital efficient stablecoin transaction execution across Ethereum, with the simplest possible user experience. Bend is the product we build to demonstrate what the protocol makes possible — to show that we can build a seamless payment experience that anyone can use, with crypto today.

With both the Eco Protocol and Bend, we continue to push the boundary of what crypto enables and just how powerful the user experience can be: a simple send, whether you’re paying someone, providing liquidity, trying to new app, or inviting a friend onchain for the first time.  We’re a team hell-bent on doing our very best work (individually and together), solving hard problems, staying optimistic, and believing money should be better.

If these things excite you, now would be the time to join. Eco is coming.

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Responsibilities:

• Design and implement enshrined rollup functionality and other VM-level optimizations and related services
• Conduct threshold-advancing research and proof-of-concept work in these areas
• Directly influence the protocol roadmap and strategy
• Be a tech lead within Eco and contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem more broadly through EIPs and RIPs

Requirements:

• At least 4 years of blockchain development experience with a focus on Ethereum/EVM
• Experience with rollup architectures and cross-chain interactions
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Informed opinions on the rollup ecosystem and current developments in the Ethereum technical roadmap
• Apparent interest and passion for contributing to the crypto ecosystem
• A bias for startups: constant problem solving, high ownership and accountability, smaller teams

Nice-to-haves

• Experience writing Solidity smart contracts
• High confidence in Rust and/or Go
• Active and demonstrated contributions to open source crypto projects
• Prior experience in distributed systems, infra and/or security

Benefits of working at Eco:

• Fully remote organization that allows you to work anywhere in the US, Canada, or North American time zones (other exceptions considered case-by-case)
• 100% employer-sponsored medical, vision and dental coverage for you, your spouse and your dependents
• Flexible vacation and work culture
• Work-from-home stipend, monthly wellness allowance, and annual learning & development allowance
• 401(k) plan with company match (if eligible based on residency)
• Regular co-working opportunities in different cities throughout the US

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Please note that we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, background, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status or disability. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please feel free to let us know.