Staff Protocol Engineer (EVM)

TL;DR

Staff Protocol Engineer (EVM): Maintaining and advancing Avalanche’s EVM-compatible chains with an accent on designing and implementing paradigm-shifting extensions on top of vanilla EVMs without breaking ecosystem compatibility. Focus on solving complex challenges in decoupled consensus and execution for always-on, concurrent execution.

Location: Brooklyn, NY or Remote (North America). NYC metro candidates are required to be in office 2-3x/week.

Salary: $253,479–$269,321

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage Web3 company founded by Cornell computer scientists, redefining how people build and use finance and decentralized applications on Avalanche.

What you will do

• Maintain and advance Avalanche’s EVM-compatible chains.
• Design and implement paradigm-shifting extensions on top of vanilla EVMs without breaking ecosystem compatibility.
• Contribute to projects like libevm (EVM as a library) and Streaming Asynchronous Execution (decoupled consensus and execution).

Requirements

• Highly proficient in Golang; comfortable mentoring others.
• Independent Solidity experience; comfortable deploying smart contracts to production.
• Deep knowledge of the life of an EVM transaction, from wallet to opcode.
• Self-starter with insatiable curiosity, comfortable diving into existing code.
• Meticulous attention to detail and appreciation for clean, maintainable code.
• Comfortable in a hacker culture.

Nice to have

• Demonstrable experience with geth internals.

Culture & Benefits

• Join an early-stage Web3 company with a global, world-class team.
• Work with experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law.
• Highly passionate about Web3 and redefining decentralized applications.
• Company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital.
• Committed to diversity and an Equal Opportunity Employer.