The Role

We are looking for a Senior Solidity Engineer to join our core team. Your work will include the design, implementation, and deployment of critical infrastructure powering the Monad blockchain.

You will contribute to development of major projects with a smart contract component, such as bridges, order books, staking, and NFT minting services.
You'll contribute to design, development, testing, and deployment of these new features. You'll make critical decisions on security and maintainability. Your work will power components with billions of dollars of TVL; as such, you'll need to maintain exceptional focus in defining invariants and defending against attacks.
You'll also contribute to design and development of new VM features that enable developers to build more powerful dapps. The smart contracts you develop will serve as initial use cases for new features that we are pioneering in the Monad VM, which supports and extends the EVM.

Requirements

Required prior experience:
3+ years of smart contract development including production deployments of original protocols
Extensive knowledge of Solidity and the EVM
Extensive knowledge of smart contract security and common pitfalls (e.g. you understand the cause of all historical reentrancy attacks and other vulnerabilities)
Extensive experience with proper deployment and security practices
Experience writing extensive unit and integration tests
Required personal attributes:

Extreme attention to detail
Auditor/hacker mindset
Low ego
Independence
Extremely strong work ethic
Ambition/desire to make a massive impact
Enthusiasm for Monad's mission of helping decentralization scale
Bonuses:

Experience with auditing smart contracts
Earned bug bounties
Experience building and managing a protocol with significant TVL is a plus
Experience writing high-performance C++
What you'll be doing

You'll contribute to design and development of major projects with a smart contract component such as bridges, order books, staking, and NFT minting services. This will draw on your knowledge of existing tools as well as leveraging new primitives in Monad's VM.
You'll develop rigorous unit and integration tests, and thoroughly consider potential attack vectors
You'll contribute to architectural decisions that maximize security and minimize trust requirements
You'll collaborate with the rest of the team to develop features of the Monad VM
You'll hire other smart contract engineers
You'll mentor junior engineers and interns
You'll think strategically about initiatives or features that will aid in early adoption of the Monad blockchain
Why work with us

You'll work on extremely challenging problems with massive potential impact
You'll work with and learn from a small, exceptional team
You'll receive a competitive salary, along with equity
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 extremely impactful in enabling onramps and usage of the Monad blockchain, facilitating adoption by many users.
Your work will be deeply impactful, enabling much cheaper and more efficient decentralized computation and ultimately paving the way for new dapps that improve many people's lives.
Working at Monad Labs means doing challenging work on a high-impact problem with exceptional teammates.

Here are some of the people you'll work with:

James, performance engineering expert and system architect; previously designed and built ultra-low-latency systems for a top high-frequency trading team at Jump Trading;
Ariq, expert at low-level firmware and software programming; previously a senior engineer at Arista Networks, where he served as lead maintainer on multiple linux kernel networking drivers for Arista EOS devices;
Aashish, expert systems designer and hacker, previously the first engineer at Pattern Research, a leading crypto HFT firm, where he designed and built the entire trading stack from scratch
We think you'll enjoy working with us, and that you'll find the work to be extremely impactful and challenging.

Salary and benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $200,000 - $250,000. (**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; 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) participation; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 11 company-observed holidays.

The majority of our team is in NYC and works together a few days a week. Heavy preference will be given to candidates based in or able to relocate to NYC.

Job Description
Monad Labs is creating the foundation for a new world of powerful decentralized applications. We've developed the first parallel EVM executor, and have paired it with significant innovations on consensus, pipelining, and storage to build the Monad blockchain, an ultra-performant EVM-equivalent blockchain supporting 10,000 TPS while remaining highly decentralized.

Founded by Jump Trading alums, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, authoring software innovations that enable a new, high-performance decentralized system that is backward-compatible with existing EVM apps and Ethereum infrastructure. We are backed by notable leaders in the crypto space, including Dragonfly, Cobie, and Hasu.

Our mission is to enable a new universe of decentralized apps—use cases and user flows that are currently impossible—by drastically reducing EVM computation costs. Ultimately, our work will unleash the power of decentralization to make the world more efficient and fair.

The Role

After strict focus on developing our core infra and technology, the Monad blockchain is quickly approaching its Testnet v0 release. Ahead of that launch, we are growing our team (currently almost all engineers) to include a Research Writer.

As Research Writer, you will become the voice of Monad Labs and an evangelist for the Monad blockchain. Your work will educate many users and developers, and will help Monad's community grow rapidly.

This role is on the critical path of Monad's growth.

Requirements
Prior experience/skills:

Excellent knowledge of major crypto protocols, especially L1s and L2s (e.g. consensus mechanisms, economic security design, interoperability). Some examples of topics you should know well: PoW in Bitcoin, PoS in Ethereum, tendermint, IBC, MEV, PBS, and others.
You've written about technical crypto topics in a clear and engaging manner
You're crypto-native: you're immersed in crypto culture, and aware of the prevailing personalities, memes, and major narratives and projects
You have experience writing engaging Twitter threads
Required personal attributes:

Attention to detail
Creativity
Resourcefulness and independence
Ambition to have your writing reach many people
Technical curiosity
Clarity of thought
A sense of humor
Enthusiasm about learning and teaching
Enthusiasm for Monad's mission of enabling far more decentralized computation
Bonuses:

Experience developing your own publication (substack etc)
Previous experience at a L1 or L2 blockchain protocol
Experience with Dune Analytics or more generally with querying blockchain data for insights
Knowledge of Solidity and smart contract security
CS background
A love for memes
What you'll be doing
You'll conduct research on technical topics related to Monad's mission of decentralization and scale. These topics will range from Monad-specific innovations and performance, to more general insights about the crypto space and current user or app behavior.
You'll convert that research into insightful articles and twitter threads that educate the community about Monad's technology, and what the future will look like with Monad in the mix.
You'll develop content for varying levels of technical background (everyday users, app developers, and researchers).
You'll write for various platforms, from long-form (medium and mirror.xyz) to twitter, reddit, and podcasts.
You'll work alongside other members of our team to build a coherent brand and voice for Monad.
You'll stay up-to-date on apps, topics, and narratives, and incorporate current events into your writing. Your knowledge of the state of crypto will help inform our team's strategy with respect to partnerships and new initiatives.
You'll help Monad's presence grow to be as big and engaged as possible.
Why work with us
You'll be at the forefront of Monad's success story, communicating our unique selling points and sharing our vision of the future
You'll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
You'll work with great people
You'll receive a competitive salary and equity package
Your work will be deeply impactful, helping crypto and decentralization to scale, and ultimately paving the way for a new world of dapps that improve many people's lives.
Salary and benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $75,000 - $150,000. (**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; health coverage; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 10 company-observed holidays.