Senior Protocol Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Writing robust, secure, upgradeable smart contracts that power the Foundation protocol.
• Creating efficient, reliable, and readable middleware APIs for UI layer to interact with deployed contracts.
• Architecting reliable monitoring, alerting, and notification pipelines for both smart contracts and off-chain services.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience with Solidity, React, GraphQL, Postgres.
• Bonus: experience with Typescript, Ethers.js, Hardhat, Graph Protocol.
• 5+ years experience in a software engineering role.
• Strong conviction you can move fast and not break things.

Benefits & Location:

Foundation provides medical, dental, and vision insurance, with a flexible PTO policy for full-time employees, as well as a new Macbook Pro. Foundation is remote-only with employees all over the world. We’re currently in Brooklyn, Sydney, Atlanta, Chicago, London, and San Francisco.

Our Values:

Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, and welcome people from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, perspectives, and skill sets. As part of our commitment to fight for equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process, and continue to promote an inclusive work environment.

We believe that a diverse team composed of individuals with different perspectives, lived experiences, and identities is essential to achieving our mission and upending old models of selling and sharing art. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are accommodated in the job application and interview process, and in the performance of essential job functions.

Foundation launched as an NFT marketplace in early February 2021, and hit $1M in sales within the first two weeks. We’ve supported over 200+ artists including Zach Lieberman, Kim Laughton, Sarah Zucker, Shawna X, and Dom Hofmann, the cofounder of Vine. We also had a breakout sale with the creator of viral internet meme, Nyan Cat. Soon, we’ll be onboarding a roster of incredible musicians into our growing community.

We're looking for thorough and creative protocol engineers to help build the decentralized foundation for the new creative economy.