--- title: 'Developer Experience Engineer at Ritual' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/developer-experience-engineer-ritual-remote-9ktmd70ptpgj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Developer Experience Engineer at Ritual - **Company:** Ritual - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-01-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ritual/jobs/4614247007 ## Job description ## About Ritual Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies. ## About the role As a Developer Experience Engineer at Ritual, you will architect and build the foundational tools that enable developers to efficiently build on our infrastructure. You'll create the development frameworks, testing environments, and automation tools that make it seamless for developers to integrate with Ritual's AI and blockchain capabilities. Your work will directly shape how developers interact with and build on Ritual's platform. - Design and implement best-in-class development frameworks that do for AI-enabled chains what Foundry did for the EVM - Identify friction points in the developer journey and build solutions to address them - Build lightning-fast local development environments that make testing against Ritual as seamless as working with tools like anvil - Create elegant CLIs and SDKs that make complex AI and blockchain interactions feel natural - Craft developer tooling that makes deploying and testing AI-enabled smart contracts a joy - Design and implement powerful debugging and simulation capabilities for AI-blockchain interactions - Write clear, engaging documentation and tutorials that get developers from zero to hero - Run workshops and hackathons to energize the developer community and gather direct feedback - Build and nurture an active open-source community around our development tools ## About you - Strong experience with at least one of Rust, TypeScript, or Python - Past experience contributing to open-source projects and libraries - Proven ability to build developer tools that developers love to use - Deep understanding of EVM architecture and smart contract development - Experience with modern AI development workflows and MLOps tools across different compute environments - Strong knowledge of container technologies and deployment patterns - Proven ability to explain complex technical concepts through writing and speaking - Ability to act quickly under high pressure scenarios and context switch at a high frequency - A high level of end-to-end ownership and self-direction, with excellent communication skills - Hungry, high-energy and ability to work within and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment ## Nice to have - Track record of maintaining or significantly contributing to popular blockchain tools (e.g., Foundry, Anvil, wagmi, viem, etc) - Experience building compiler toolchains or language infrastructure - Background in AI infrastructure and model deployment tooling - Experience with build systems and package management - Track record of growing developer communities through content and evangelism - Deep knowledge of distributed systems and consensus mechanisms - Experience designing intuitive APIs and developer interfaces ## Why join us - Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure - Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups - Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space - 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare - Aggressive company 401k match - Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you! - Participate in virtual and in-person events - Much much more! ## About Ritual ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ritual is a social ordering app and online ordering platform that connects local restaurants with customers, offices, and building tenants, enabling convenient order‑ahead and pickup. - **Entity Type**: Private (funded – Seed, Series B, Series C, and later rounds; total funding $137.3M) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with additional offices in the United States) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Ray Reddy (CEO & Co‑founder) – additional co‑founders are not publicly named in the available sources. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Food technology / Consumer services (online ordering, restaurant technology, employee meal perks) - **Target customers**: B2B (companies offering meal perks to employees, building management) and B2C (individuals ordering takeout). Secondary customers are restaurants (especially independents) wanting a low‑commission ordering channel. - **Mission / purpose**: “We’re for restaurants and the people who love them” – helping local businesses thrive online by providing affordable technology and fostering community around food. ## Products & Services - **Ritual App (Consumer)**: A mobile app that lets users order ahead from nearby restaurants, skip the line, and pay. Includes a unique “social ordering” feature where co‑workers can add orders to a single pickup. - **Ritual for Restaurants**: An online ordering system that gives independent restaurants a digital presence with lower commissions than major delivery platforms. - **Ritual for Offices & Buildings**: Meal program and tenant rewards that make it easy for companies to offer daily lunch credits, connecting office workers with local eateries. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$30M** (latest available); total funding **$137.3M** across 5 rounds. - **Notable Investors**: Insight Partners (led Series B), Mantella Venture Partners, Mistral Venture Partners (seed), and others. - **Growth Signals**: Small team of ~15 employees (down ~26% YoY, indicating a lean operation); acquired AllChecked.in in 2021; presence in North America and Australia; continues to serve both consumers and enterprise meal‑perk programs. ## Competitive Advantages - **Restaurant‑first model**: Lower commission structure compared to incumbents like DoorDash, making it more attractive for independent restaurants. - **Social ordering moat**: The ability for co‑workers to piggyback on one order creates a network effect within offices and buildings. - **Hybrid‑work alignment**: Office meal credits and building partnerships directly address the “return‑to‑office” trend. ## Strategic Focus - Deepening relationships with office buildings and enterprise clients to drive recurring meal‑perk revenue. - Continuing to offer affordable technology to independent restaurants to help them compete digitally. - Maintaining a lean, low‑burn approach while refining its product for a post‑pandemic hybrid work environment. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include Ownership, Impact, Open‑mindedness, and Good Judgement. The team is small (15 people) so every hire has outsized impact. - **Work policy**: Hybrid model – weekly credits are provided when in the Toronto office, and daily credits are available on office days. - **Perks**: Ritual Credits for meals; emphasis on work‑life balance (rating 3.6/5) and culture (3.9/5) on LinkedIn. - **Engineering culture**: Data‑driven decision making, modern tech stack (Kubernetes, Python, Google Cloud, Snowflake, React, etc.). Previous employees have gone on to top tech companies (Shopify, Amazon, Google, Wealthsimple). - **Career growth**: Employees rate career opportunities at 3.6/5; leadership is hands‑on due to team size. ## Sources 1. [ritual.co](https://ritual.co/) 2. [ritual.co/careers](https://ritual.co/careers) 3. [ritual.co/about](https://ritual.co/about) 4. 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