💻Smart Contract Engineer - Solidity

Cega

Cega

Singapore
Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2024

Smart Contract Engineer - Solidity

Who We Are

At Cega, we are building innovative financial options/derivatives products in Web3 that have a $16 trillion dollar market size in traditional finance. We are the first decentralized derivatives protocol focused on exotic derivatives. Cega aims to create high yielding, safer products for investors in Web3. We make this possible through creating innovative vault products such as a structured note (fixed coupon note) with exotic derivative characteristics and implementing it on a network with fast transaction speeds, availability of derivative liquidity, and strong risk management capabilities. Currently we the are #1 DeFi options protocol on Solana and #2 across Ethereum.
Our mission is to create superior, flexible, and diversified investment opportunities for every Web3 investor. We’ve raised $9.3 million to help us achieve this mission with top Web3 investors such as Dragonfly Capital, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, and others.
The Cega team is an extremely talented group of people with strong finance expertise and tech/startup engineering experience. We are fully remote but work closely together to achieve our mission with a focus on our core values.

The Role

We are looking for a senior Solidity engineer to join our core engineering team and own significant components of our backend systems. You will have autonomy to design, build, and scale key architecture for: buy-side and sell-side management, pricing, settlement, and clearing processes.

Responsibilities

Smart-contract development - you will design, develop, and ship new backend features that supports our protocol.
Infrastructure - you will define how we run, test, and deploy backend services to our users and customers.
Interacting with users - you will be interacting with and support our growing community of retail investors and market-makers.

Required Qualifications

2+ years software engineering experience
Experience with Solidity, web3.js, and IPFS, Web3 and Ethereum development tools, languages, and libraries
Deployed meaningful contracts - you’ve developed for, or have launched a meaningful project on the EVM chain
Understanding of distributed systems

Nice to Have

Experience with Javascript/Typescript
Experience with Rust / Go / C / C++ / Java & have backend experience

Important

Crypto native - you are active in the crypto community, defi experience great to have
Strong ownership - you take pride in what you ship, take responsibility for goals and timelines, and communicate issues/blockers clearly
Curiosity - when you encounter a problem, you want to dig deeper and learn more

Perks and Benefits

We’re a globally distributed team that is remote-friendly and operates like a tight-knit family. We provide:
Competitive salary and token equity
Healthcare benefits — medical/dental/vision for U.S. based employees, stipends for non-U.S. based employees.
Two offsites a year at great places around the world (previously we were in Tokyo, Bali, Denver)