Founded by Jump Trading alums, Monad Labs is a tech startup using low-latency programming, compiler optimization, and multithreaded computing to build an ultra-high-performance smart contract platform. The work entails building an optimal stack-based VM that supports multithreaded computation, as well as developing and implementing an efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) algorithm enabling a network of nodes to come to consensus. We recently raised $225M in series A funding to scale our team in bringing the Monad blockchain to production.
The Role
Monad Labs is looking for a Blockchain Engineer to join the core engineering team. Your work will initially be focused on integrating the Monad blockchain with the outside world such as JSON-RPC, indexers, wallets, bridges, storage, analytics platforms, and applications.
Who You Are
- You have at least 4 years of software engineering experience
- You have prior experience in blockchain engineering at a Layer-1, Layer-2, or Infrastructure (Oracle, Bridge, Indexer, RPC Provider, Wallet, or other high-performance app) project
- You have backend engineering experience in low-level languages such as C, C++, or Rust
- You have built something significant from scratch
- You are a great communicator who is willing to participate in technical discussions, reviews, and documentation
- You value the following qualities that define Monad’s Engineering team
- Ability to DO things. When it comes to problem-solving, we value practicality and common sense.
- Strong design skills (e.g. higher-level thinking about how system design, appropriate abstractions, maintainability, to name a few, work)
- Excellence in whatever you have worked on before
- Rigorous development mindset
Why work with us
- You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact
- You’ll work with and learn from a small, exceptional team (bios here: https://monad.xyz/team)
- You’ll receive a competitive salary and competitive total compensation package.
- You’ll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
- You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
- Your work will be deeply impactful
Salary and benefits
Minimum full-time salary of $200,000. (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)
Monad Labs’ benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off; insurance coverage; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 10 company-observed holidays.
