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title: 'Smart Contract Engineer (EVM) at Waterfall'
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# Smart Contract Engineer (EVM) at Waterfall

- **Company:** Waterfall
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2022-05-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/waterfall/546c36d8-f568-458e-9e3a-19c5704a6a95

## Job description

About Us:

Waterfall is a prediction market-esque trading and pricing protocol. Waterfall allows users to trade chips to predict product prices, providing instant price discovery for both liquid and illiquid assets.

Backed by Electric Capital and Pantera Capital, we are a lean, fast-paced team that cares about building an inclusive culture: beyond creating an impact in the space, we want to work together to make Waterfall the best choice for you and your future.

Requirements:

- Ability to build out the entire protocol in Solidity (+Yul)
- 9+ months of experience writing smart contracts for the EVM ecosystem
- 4+ years of programming experience
- Great communication skills between team members
- Passion about DeFi, financial derivatives markets

Bonuses:

- Previous experience working at a crypto company
- Background in math and/or security research
- Proficiency in Typescript
- Interests in CTFs

Responsibilities:

- Implement protocol mechanisms by writing efficient, composable smart contracts
- Collaborate with team engineers to integrate the protocol with frontend and backend
- Design and write robust test cases using Foundry, Hardhat, and other necessary tools
- Practice good code documentation
- Perform analysis and reverse engineer protocol designs and mechanisms
- Collaborate with team members
- Research and stay up to date with new protocols and developments in the Ethereum ecosystem

Benefits:

Our compensation package includes a base annual salary ($120k - $200k) and stock. Here are some benefits that we currently offer:

- Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Eye, Life)
- Stipend to set-up work environment (e.g. any work gear)
- Co-working office pass
- Paid travel for conferences and company off-sites
- Unlimited paid time off

If you are motivated and eager to take on the novel and challenging problem of pricing NFTs, we'd love to hear from you. Even if you are unfamiliar with the EVM or Solidity but are passionate about the problem and willing to learn, apply anyway!

## About Waterfall

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Waterfall is an online NFT trading protocol that enables users to buy, sell, and predict NFT prices while earning rewards.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Blockchain / NFT marketplace
- Target customers: B2C – NFT collectors, traders, and speculators
- Mission or purpose statement: Not publicly available, but the platform focuses on democratizing NFT trading and adding predictive/gamified elements.

## Products & Services
- **NFT Trading Protocol**: A platform for buying and selling NFTs, with features for price prediction and earning NFT-based rewards. Type: Web3 protocol / marketplace.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $4M raised in 1 round (Seed round, October 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Pantera Capital, Electric Capital (institutional investors); also 1 angel investor.
- **Growth Signals**: As of June 2026, the company has 14 employees. Still in early stage with active hiring (Smart Contract Engineer, Flexible Position). The NFT market remains volatile, but Waterfall’s prediction/rewards angle differentiates it from pure marketplaces.

## Competitive Advantages
- **NFT Price Prediction & Rewards**: Unique feature that allows users to speculate on NFT price movements and earn rewards, adding a gamified layer beyond simple trading.
- **Early‑Stage Agility**: Small, focused team able to iterate quickly in a fast‑changing Web3 landscape.

## Strategic Focus
- Building out the core trading and prediction protocol.
- Expanding user base through community initiatives and potential partnerships.
- Likely developing additional DeFi or staking features to increase platform utility.

## Why Work Here
- **Early‑Stage Impact**: Join a small, seed‑stage team where your work directly shapes the product and culture.
- **Hybrid Work**: The Smart Contract Engineer role is listed as hybrid in New York, NY, offering flexibility.
- **Custom Role Flexibility**: The company explicitly offers a “Flexible Position (come up with your own title)” – a rare perk that suggests openness to self‑directed contributions.
- **Tech Stack**: Focus on EVM smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure, and Web3 frontends – ideal for engineers passionate about crypto.
- **Culture**: Likely fast‑paced, collaborative, and deeply technical given the early stage and small headcount.

## Sources
1. [Tracxn – Waterfall Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/waterfall/__LGZ1Yqsja7Ndud-HPCEVJnvxjsFgWXHaF4UApAt3h20)
2. [Lever Careers – Waterfall Job Postings](https://jobs.lever.co/waterfall)

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