Monad Labs is a venture-backed startup building the Monad blockchain, a high-performance smart contract platform built to bring world adoption to decentralized apps. Monad delivers 1000x the throughput of Ethereum—10,000 transactions per second—while maintaining backward-compatibility for Ethereum smart contracts, offering users and developers the best of both worlds.
Founded by Jump Trading alums, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, authoring novel open source code to implement a new, high-performance, high-reliability, high-value system.
After raising a $19 million seed round backed by Dragonfly Capital, Placeholder Capital, Naval Ravikant, and other leaders in the crypto space, we are hiring a few more exceptional engineers who want to work on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment.
The Role
Monad Labs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the core engineering team to focus on components that integrate the blockchain with the outside world, such as JSON-RPC, indexers, wallets, bridges, storage, analytics platforms, and applications. You’ll leverage existing experience with blockchain engineering to build systems that are intuitive and highly performant. You will be part of a small, high-functioning team in a fast-paced startup environment.
Who You Are
You have at least 4 years of software engineering experience
You have prior experience in blockchain engineering at a Layer-1, Layer-2, or Infrastructure (Oracle, Bridge, Indexer, RPC Provider, Wallet, or other high-performance app) project
You have backend engineering experience in low-level languages such as C, C++, or Rust
You have built something significant from scratch
You are a great communicator who is willing to participate in technical discussions, reviews, and documentation
You value the following qualities that define Monad’s Engineering team
Ability to DO things. When it comes to problem-solving, we value practicality and common sense.
Strong design skills (e.g. higher-level thinking about how system design, appropriate abstractions, maintainability, to name a few, work)
Excellence in whatever you have worked on before
Rigorous development mindset
Why work with us
You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact
You’ll work with and learn from a small, exceptional team (bios here: monad.xyz/team
)You’ll receive a competitive salary and competitive total compensation package.
You’ll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
You’ll be part of a flat, results-driven organization
Your work will be deeply impactful
Salary and benefits
Minimum full-time salary of $200,000. (This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)
Monad Labs’ benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off; insurance coverage; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 10 company-observed holidays.
$55,000 — $110,000/year
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