--- title: 'Join Our Talent Network ! at Fuel Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/join-our-talent-network-fuel-labs-portugal-xf0k0fkdmcmc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Join Our Talent Network ! at Fuel Labs - **Company:** Fuel Labs - **Location:** Portugal - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2024-10-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/fuellabs/17b28ec2-97ee-4912-876d-0c42c85e90c2 ## Job description Don’t see a role that fits? No worries! If you’re eager to take your first step into the blockchain industry or simply curious about what we’re building at Fuel, we’d love to hear from you. Feel free to share your CV with us! While we receive a high volume of applications, we strive to respond to everyone within a week. If you haven’t heard back from us, don’t hesitate to give us a friendly nudge. See you on the other side ! ## About Fuel Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fuel Labs develops Fuel Ignition, a high-performance Ethereum layer-2 rollup powered by the FuelVM, designed for parallel transaction execution, high throughput, and home-verifiable decentralization. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A-II / Seed stage; LinkedIn classifies it as a nonprofit organization) - **Headquarters**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (CB Insights lists Vancouver; LinkedIn lists a US office in "Ethereum, KY" — likely a data error for Ethridge, Kentucky; additional offices in Lisbon, Portugal, and Vancouver, Canada) - **Founded**: 2019 (conflicting report: Built In lists 2016) - **Founders**: Nick Dodson (Co-founder & CEO); other founding team members not fully disclosed in sources ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / Ethereum layer-2 scaling (Software Development) - **Target customers**: B2B / B2D (developer-focused) — Web3 developers, dApp builders, DeFi protocols, and enterprises building on Ethereum - **Mission or purpose statement**: Fuel addresses the creeping centralization infecting the blockchain ecosystem, igniting a high-throughput architecture built for mass adoption while retaining low node requirements. The company describes its mission as building "the Rollup OS for Ethereum." ## Products & Services - **Fuel Ignition**: A high-performance Ethereum layer-2 rollup powered by the FuelVM. It claims 21,000 TPS per CPU core, 1-second block time, fees of $0.0002, and Ethereum DA security via EIP-4844. Built for home verification (stage-2 security) and scalable for mass adoption. Type: Blockchain L2 protocol/infrastructure. - **Sway**: A domain-specific blockchain-oriented programming language built by Fuel Labs, with a full Solidity transpiler. Type: Developer tool / programming language. - **Fuel Orchestrator & Fuelup**: An all-in-one toolchain (Fuel's equivalent of Rust's cargo) serving as the primary entry point for creating, building, testing, and deploying Sway projects. Type: Developer toolchain (CLI). - **Ecosystem applications**: Supporting third-party projects including Griffy (prediction market), MIRA DEX (decentralized exchange), Swaylend (lending platform), Bako (multi-asset wallet), and Zap (wallet ecosystem bridging Ethereum and Fuel). Type: Ecosystem / partner applications. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $83M (CB Insights reports $81.5M — conflicting reports; both figures cite the same $80M Seed round plus earlier rounds) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Stratos Technologies (lead, $80M Seed round, Sept 2022), CoinFund (led $1.5M non-equity assistance, April 2021), Moonhill Capital, MH Ventures, ZMT Capital, Blockwall Capital, and 14+ additional investors - **Growth Signals**: - First optimistic rollup on Ethereum mainnet (2020) and first to achieve stage-2 security status - Distributed workforce across 12 countries (US, India, Brazil, UK, Spain, France, Ukraine, Poland, Canada, Argentina, and more) - Talent magnet: hires from Consensys (5), Polygon Labs (2), Taiko Labs (2), Status (2), Immunefi (2), Zilliqa (2), and Gnosis - Cautionary signals: headcount declined -56.5% YoY (22 employees per LinkedIn), and open job postings are down -88.2% YoY (2 active postings, both "Join Our Talent Network") ## Competitive Advantages - **Parallel execution via FuelVM**: Fuel claims 21,000 TPS per CPU core, enabling transaction throughput far beyond standard EVM rollups - **State minimization**: Parallel + state-minimized + native account abstraction + native assets architecture - **Proprietary language (Sway)**: A domain-specific language with full Solidity transpiler, offering a superior developer experience vs. the EVM while lowering the barrier for Solidity devs - **First-mover proof points**: First optimistic rollup on Ethereum mainnet and first to reach stage-2 security — a trust benchmark in the L2 space - **UTXO-based asset model**: Enables intent-driven exchanges, AMMs without smart contracts, and complex capital markets/DEX designs at native levels - **Home verification**: Low node requirements make the network verifiable by everyday users, addressing decentralization concerns in L2s ## Strategic Focus - **Building the "Rollup OS for Ethereum"**: Expanding the Fuel ecosystem as a full operating layer for Ethereum L2 development - **Decentralized sequencing**: Actively developing a decentralized sequencer to address risks of centralized sequencers in Web3 - **Developer ecosystem growth**: Investing in Sway tooling, Fuelup, and developer education through livestreams, community programs, and high-performance DeFi primitives (lending, prediction markets, DEXs) - **Wallet infrastructure**: Advancing multi-asset and intent-based wallet ecosystems (Zap, Bako) to bridge traditional Ethereum infrastructure with Fuel's capabilities - **DeFi expansion**: Dedicated Head of DeFi role signals focus on capital markets, lending (Swaylend), and prediction markets (Griffy) ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first, globally distributed**: Team spans 12 countries with remote work across Portugal, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland, and Germany; offices in Vancouver, Lisbon, and the US - **Employee ratings**: 3.9/5 overall (10 reviews) — Work-Life Balance 4.1, Compensation 4.2, Culture 3.8, Career 3.7 - **Small, senior-heavy team**: ~22 employees with a high ratio of technical staff (50% technical), C-level (7%), and senior specialists — opportunities for outsized impact - **Strong alumni network**: Former team members have gone to Paradigm, ChainML, Plasma, and VOID — a signal of talent pedigree in the crypto space - **Mission-driven organization**: Classified as a nonprofit entity — employees report a collaborative, innovation-focused culture centered on building an open, decentralized Ethereum future - **Early-stage ownership**: Though Series A-II funded, the team remains small, offering engineers and operators direct exposure to protocol architecture, language design, and ecosystem strategy - **Caveat for job seekers**: Active hiring is currently minimal (2 talent-network postings, -88.2% YoY in postings), suggesting a cautious hiring posture — focus on the talent network or direct outreach ## Sources 1. [fuel.network](https://fuel.network/?krain_ref=3130) 2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/fuellabs) 3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/fuel-labs) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/fuel-labs) 5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/fuel-labs)