Staff Software Engineer, Flashbots
Builder
+ Equity
Ethereum research and development firm
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Ethereum research and development firm
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To mitigate the negative externalities of current Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) extraction techniques and to avoid the existential risks MEV could cause to state-rich blockchains like Ethereum.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in applied programming in Rust, or a similar language with a desire to learn Rust
- Experience building complex, high-scale, high-performance software
- Experience developing scalable distributed systems
- Curious, a desire to learn, and great interpersonal skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced staff-level engineer to join our Block Building team at Flashbots
- In this role you will help build and steer development of our block building infrastructure, from the core builder software to the decentralized network that operates it
- Optimizing and maintaining our core block building infrastructure, used across L1 and L2
- Designing, implementing, and testing new features such as:
- Executing user’s transactions according to their preferences
- Block building algorithms or orchestrations
- Advanced analytics and observability
- Contributing to the development of a decentralized network
- Contributing to building a culture of engineering excellence
Our take
Flashbots is a research and development organization that is mitigating against the miner-extractable value (MEV) problem, striving for a transparent and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction to reinforce the Ethereum blockchain ideals.
Flashbots, whilst connecting searchers and mining pools together, stands out for not using private contracts and arrangements. Instead, it is an open participation system where any searcher or mining pool can join. This is considered to be more beneficial to the network, rather than a few private entities dominating, because it still allows for competition.
The company is seeing active progression, having raised $60 million for its Suave, a new vision for a kind of blockchain that could transform the process by which chain-operators earn value across different networks. With this, the company is becoming a genuinely exciting disrupter to an ever-changing industry. However, mid-2023 has seen major resignations in Flashbots leadership team following its substantial funding, down to the company's compliance with US Treasury sanctions concerning censorship and tighter regulations in the Ethereum industry. These changes were followed by a strategic hiring push but nevertheless, the future direction of the company remains a considerable unknown.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- 🌍 Fully remote with flexible hours in a flat hierarchy
- 🧠 Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
- 💸 Competitive salary + significantly above market rate equity package
- ✈️ Regular team on-sites to locations like Morocco, Amsterdam and Costa Rica
- 🌴Unlimited PTO with no approval needed on 3 days or less vacations
- 🍏 Attractive health cover package for US employee 🇺🇸
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Leadership
Stephane Gosselin
(Co-Founder)Also General Manager and Board Member at Flashbots
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