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title: 'Smart Contract Engineer at Thunderhead'
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last_seen: '2026-09-05'
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# Smart Contract Engineer at Thunderhead

- **Company:** Thunderhead
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-12-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/thunderhead-xyz/am9icG9zdDqLPlajBHEydKEX8ChXv_K7

## 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

## About Thunderhead

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Thunderhead is a Web3 infrastructure and services studio that helps nascent blockchain ecosystems grow by providing staking infrastructure, public goods, and protocol-level support.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed; appears bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available (team appears globally distributed)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Founder name not publicly disclosed; early team includes family members Pierre and Sevi, plus engineers Ofek, Tom, and Tamir

*Note: This profile covers Thunderhead (Web3/blockchain), not the customer engagement software company of the same name that was acquired by Medallia.*

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / Web3 services
- **Target customers**: Nascent blockchain ecosystems, protocols, institutions (e.g., 1kx, Arrington Capital, Decentral Park Capital), whales, and retail stakers
- **Mission**: "To help nascent blockchain ecosystems by providing ecosystem as a service" and to make supported ecosystems "as Thundery as possible."

## Products & Services
- **Non-custodial staking platform for Pocket Network**: A staking solution that allows users to stake without giving up custody.
- **Liquid staking representative token**: A token representing staked POKT; peaked at 4,000 validators and $70M staked.
- **pokt.watch**: A block explorer for Pocket Network.
- **RPCmeter**: An RPC latency tracking tool.
- **Pokt.Info**: A comprehensive node analytics tool for Pocket Network.
- **Hyperliquid Stats**: A protocol stats dashboard for Hyperliquid.
- **Ecosystem-as-a-service**: Community support, staking infrastructure, public goods, and advisory services for protocol teams.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; company appears bootstrapped
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not investors, but notable customers/institutions include 1kx, Arrington Capital, and Decentral Park Capital
- **Growth Signals**: "Thousands of customers worldwide"; contributed to protocol-level changes optimizing billion-dollar networks; currently expanding to several other ecosystems with a major announcement expected soon.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep protocol-level contributions (e.g., changes to optimize billion-dollar networks)
- Non-custodial staking model that builds trust
- Track record of shipping multiple public goods (explorers, analytics tools, dashboards)
- Small, high-powered team with low average age and strong technical talent

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding staking and public goods offerings to multiple new blockchain ecosystems
- Continuing to provide ecosystem-as-a-service support for nascent protocols
- Maintaining transparency and operational clarity in uncertain market conditions

## Why Work Here
- 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

## Sources
1. [blog.thunderhead.xyz](https://blog.thunderhead.xyz/about/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thunderheadweb3)
3. [hiring.camp](https://hiring.camp/company/thunderhead-xyz)

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