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Smart Contract Engineer at Thunderhead (Remote)

Thunderhead·

Role details

Work type
Remote
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

Overview

We're looking for what Keith Rabois calls a "barrel." He says, "a definition of a barrel is someone who can take an idea from inception, all the way to shipping, and bring people along with them." We need a smart contract engineer who can help bring premier staking infrastructure to a dozen chains. Your contracts will manage billions in tvl and you will work on an AMM that revolutionizes liquid wrappers. We are profitable and have never taken outside capital.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced smart contract engineer to join our team to contribute to our liquid staking contracts. In this role you will

  • Build and maintain liquid staking contracts on various chains
  • Build robust testing frameworks for contracts
  • Whatever other hat is necessary We are looking for someone with past DeFi/Liquid staking experience who can be a major contributor to our output.

Qualifications

  • Experience with smart contract development
  • Crypto-native
  • Experience with liquid staking and/or DeFi
  • Extremely agentic and passionate
  • Barrel
  • Ownership mindset

Why work at Thunderhead

  • Join a small (6-person) team with outsized impact in Web3
  • Work on cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure and protocol-level problems
  • Opportunity to build public goods used by thousands of customers worldwide
  • Culture appears remote-friendly and family-inclusive, with a "low average age" and high-powered engineering team
  • Specific perks and formal remote/hybrid policy: Not publicly available

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