About The Company

Flashbots started in 2020 as a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities and existential risks posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) to smart-contract blockchains, starting with Ethereum. We build products to maximally decentralize public blockchains, redistribute MEV, and empower users. We work closely with our community to ensure that our products have a positive impact, are secure, and can be used in production at scale.

Job Short Description

About the Role

As a Lead Architect at Flashbots, you will play a critical role in unlocking key products on the Flashbots roadmap. Your responsibilities will include analyzing solution trade-offs, designing prototypes, formalizing architectural decisions, providing technical leadership, supporting implementation where needed, and collaborating with researchers and engineers to develop innovative products such as MEV-Share, and Suave.

Responsibilities

In addition to the outline above, as the Lead Architect you will:

• Partner closely with Flashbots product, research, and engineering teams to design product prototypes, diagrams, and technical explainers for Flashbots products
• Review code and other technical proposals and provide feedback to other team members
• Stay apprised of the latest technical developments in blockchain and MEV
• Evaluate, document, and educate others on the design space and implementation trade-offs for various solutions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of blockchain and software architectural design and implementation
• Expertise in production-grade software development using Go, Rust, Python, or TypeScript
• Advanced command of blockchain infrastructure and architectural designs and solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities in remote environment
• Experience leading and mentoring other engineers
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills

Nice to Have

• Designed architectural solutions across the MEV supply chain, orderflow auction solutions, privacy and cryptographic primitives, or related MEV solutions.