Senior Engineer, Compound
Ethereum based money market
Open for applications
Ethereum based money market
1-20 employees
Open for applications
1-20 employees
Company mission
To change the legacy financial system which is slow, inefficient, and constrained by intermediaries.
Role
Who you are
- Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
- Expertise building web-services for highly-trafficked web services
- Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience
- BA or BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with these Technologies:
Desirable
- Solidity or Yul
- Layer 2 blockchains (e.g. Arbitrum, Optimism) and cross-chain bridges
- Foundry or Hardhat
- Typescript, Elixir, Phoenix
- Elm or React
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer at Compound, you will help lead our team in building open, transparent, frictionless financial protocols
- You will be given the opportunity to design, build, test, and launch products that make DeFi more secure, capital-efficient, accessible, and useful
- We work in Solidity, Typescript, Rust, Elixir, Elm, and are forever learning and optimizing everything we make in the name of correct coding
- At Compound, you will be part of a cutting edge team building high-caliber technology that has a massive impact on the future of decentralized finance
- Build and test smart contracts in Solidity for EVM-based blockchains
- Ensure the correctness of financial algorithms
- Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains
- Keep a pulse on the DeFi ecosystem and identify improvements or areas of growth for the protocol
- Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
- Teach and mentor other engineers
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is shaking up the traditional financial system. It offers potential solutions to the problems people face with accessing and transferring money. DeFi is a peer to peer system that is not controlled by any centralized institution, like a bank.
Compound Labs is an open-source software development company building tools, products, and services for the DeFi ecosystem. The company is the creator of the Compound money market. It enables users to supply Ethereum, earn interest, or borrow it at a given interest rate. The company has partnered with Circle and Fireblocks to launch Compound Treasury, a new product designed to help institutions get into DeFi.
Compound operates in an exciting yet unpredictable space. The DeFi market skyrocketed in 2021. It increased in value from just short of $50 billion to nearly $90 billion in just a few months. However, it then fell by roughly the same amount in under 2 months. DeFi and cryptocurrencies used within its ecosystem are new technologies, and therefore the market’s extreme volatility is something Compound will have to handle in order to be successful.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2019
$25m
SERIES A
May 2018
$8.2m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $33.7m
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Geoffrey Hayes
(CTO)BSc in Engineering and Coputer Science from University of Pennsylvania. Former Engineering Manager at Postmates. Founder and CTO of Safe Shepherd.
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