About the company
Who We Are: Ethena Labs is building the first ETH based yield-bearing synthetic dollar. Arthur Hayes is a founding advisor and the team has deep experience across traditional finance and crypto engineering from firms such as Cerberus, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Deribit, Paradigm, Aave, Blockdaemon and Kaiko. We are backed by every major exchange and trading entities in the space. What we are Doing: We are building derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transform into the Internet Bond via delta-neutral derivatives positions, to create the first crypto-native, yield bearing synthetic dollar: sUSDe. We believe creating a synthetic dollar which is not reliant on existing banking infrastructure is the single most important problem to solve and largest opportunity in crypto today. USDe will form the first part of a broader ecosystem of products we are building including fixed and floating rate internet bonds and composable repo leveraged markets.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍Lead the architecture & design of our L2 chain, including open source frameworks (OP stack, Arbitrum Nitro, ZK, L1 approach), sequencer performance tuning, strategic service provider selection, etc 📍Meaningfully differentiating the chain from existing L2s such as through native yield, custom gas tokens, performance optimizations 📍Lead key development milestones include internal and external devnets, through to public launch. 📍Ensure high availability, reliability and performance of the chain post launch 📍Act as a public technical figure advocating for the chain and supporting developers and protocols building atop it
Requirements
📍Direct experience building and launching an L1 or L2 blockchain and contributing code to sequencers for EVM compatible chains 📍Experience building products in the Ethereum ecosystem 📍Expertise with either Go or Rust and Solidity 📍Exceptional at developing high-performance software and networked systems 📍Aptitude to drive an outcome, unblocking yourself and those around 📍Autonomous work ethic and and strong mindset for teamwork 📍Fluent English, both written and spoken
