Smart Contract Engineer

Aragon builds unstoppable tooling for Onchain Organizations, empowering them to experiment with governance via code and fostering coordination by the rule of code. As a Smart Contract Developer, you will join the solutions team to design and build custom integrations on top of the Aragon OSx protocol.

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

Salary not specified

Location

Western Europe

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About Aragon

Aragon is a team of 24 people that spans a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and geographies. We're entrepreneurs, technologists and skeptics, troublemakers and problem solvers, who are building unstoppable tooling for the creation and management of Onchain Organizations. Our mission is to enable any organization to experiment with governance at the speed of software and we envision a world where humans can coordinate by the rule of code, reducing the need for enforcement by trusted systems, often through the use of violence.

Aragon launched the first DAO framework in 2017, securing over $40 billion in assets for the likes of Lido and Curve. We are currently building Aragon OSx & App, a new and improved tech-stack supporting projects such as Polygon and Taiko.

What We Expect

Transform client needs into technical designs and production-ready code, always considering the user.

Lead projects from inception to live maintenance, emphasizing secure and high-quality delivery at every phase.

Exhibit deep expertise in Solidity, having not just deployed smart contracts but designed intricate contract architectures addressing real-world business challenges.

Have an understanding of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and the workings of major DeFi protocols. Foster enthusiastic collaboration with other product and engineering squads, further deepening everyone’s knowledge of the ever-expanding technologies of web3.

Engage in daily stand-ups, knowing when your expertise is critical, and step up to proactively solve your teammate’s challenges.

Build solutions with a strong grasp of software architecture best practices and common standards across the Ethereum ecosystem and in the Decentralized Finance space.

Minimum Requisites

3+ years delivering software to real users, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment

Expert-level Solidity experience, including the design and optimization of advanced smart contract systems

Strong foundation in smart contract security, with a history of successful audits and knowledge of common vulnerabilities

Strong working proficiency in foundry and hardhat

Familiarity with or contributions to Ethereum EIPs

Significant technical contributions to DeFi protocols with at least 8 figures in TVL

Fluency in typescript, and popular libraries such as Ethers (v5, v6) and viem.

Experience working across multiple EVM networks - sidechains, OP rollups and Zk rollups

Proven contributions to open-source projects within blockchain, cryptography, decentralized systems, or the broader web3 ecosystem

Understanding of how to work in an agile environment, using git, and tools like Linear and Github

Passionate about the possibilities of decentralized autonomous organizations and the impacts they may have on how humans work together to solve problems

Excellent English and technical communication - both written and oral

You are able to attend quarterly offsites - usually located in or around Europe - to work in person with your team

Bonus Skills

Experience or certification in formal verification of smart contracts

Knowledge or hands on experience working with other parts of our stack, like NextJS, Turborepo, Envio, IPFS

Interest in the use of LLMs to enhance developer productivity

Working knowledge of advanced security tools such as HEVM, Slither, Echidna, foundry Invariant tests.

Demonstrated experience using Vyper, Go or Rust

Proven mentoring skills, fostering a culture of growth and learning within teams

Power user of DeFi and/or Web3 applications

Working at Aragon

We value freedom and responsibility among our contributors. In practice, this means that we're a remotely distributed organization that's flexible but pragmatic. The team gets together for quarterly in-person offsites where we strengthen our alignment, drive projects forward, and have fun in different locations across Europe. We will trust you to accommodate and support your team, and communicate if you ever feel stretched thin. You will get all of the resources needed to be effective, whether it’s for setting up your remote work environment or a personal development budget. You will be a part-owner of Aragon X and you are expected to work with this mentality.

This role reports to Aragon X, a Swiss AG dedicated to advancing the Aragon Project. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer supporting a community of DAO creators, developers, and users experimenting with new forms of social coordination and governance.