About Ethos

Ethos aims to solve one of crypto’s biggest problems - financial incentives align more with fraud and grift than credibility and reputation. This makes adoption of crypto by the masses challenging as the space lacks a foundation of trust. Crypto is still in the Wild West 15 years in, and we must progress to how modern society operates - where reputation and credibility are valued - to continue wide-spread adoption.

Ethos uses a series of novel on-chain mechanics like vouching, ratings, and slashing to instrument social credibility and reputation. Ultimately these interactions between network participants create a credibility score which can be surfaced in any interface.

The founders are two web2 veterans, who have built and scaled products for millions of users, have experience working 0->1 in startups backed by Y-combinator and Sequoia, and most importantly are ready to make a shift to focusing on challenging web3 problems.

Ethos is currently building its base product and looking for core contributors to help launch sometime in summer of 2024.

Working at Ethos

A Smart Contract Engineer at Ethos will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying secure and efficient Solidity smart contracts on Ethereum via an L2. You will contribute to standard interfaces that integrate smart contracts into our existing front-end and back-end systems. This will include designing consensus algorithms according to industry leading from prediction markets, oracles, and other Schelling-point game theory models. You will help ensure Diamond-pattern based upgrades deploy smoothly without impacting our customer’s finances, reputation, or trust in Ethos.

What you will work on

1. Design, develop, test, and deploy a suite of Solidity smart contracts.
2. Integrate Ethos smart contracts with our primary web application, as well as several non-web clients (such as Metamask wallet plugins).
3. Integrate various blockchain protocols and standards, including ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155.
4. Optimize smart contracts for high transaction throughput and gas efficiency.
5. Prepare documentation and integration guidelines for developers building on Ethos smart contracts.

Skill Requirements

• 3+ years with Solidity smart contracts
• Integration and test frameworks, such as Truffle, Hardhat, Ethers, and Viem
• Experience responding to smart contract security audits

Pluses but not Requirements

• Experience in client facing web3, blockchain, financial, or other professional services products
• Familiarity with DeFi, DeSo, staking, points, and web3 market in general
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, and related web development technologies.

Note

• We are a fully remote company and this role is open for global applicants.

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