About The Company

Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. We are creating a new DeFi primitive for on-chain options, and this is a unique opportunity to be part of the next revolution in decentralized finance! ---- Panoptic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other protected category.

Job Short Description

We are looking for a senior software engineer with advanced Solidity experience to join the core contributor team to build this novel DeFi primitive. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing smart contracts for the next generation of Panoptic, the first defi-native options protocol on the Ethereum blockchain.

*Responsibilities*

Lead the Solidity Smart Contract code developments as an early engineer
Work with auditors and implement in iterations their suggestions and handle any redesign requirements
Implement Panoptic V2 smart contracts and tests
Adapt and deploy smart contracts to EVM-based blockchains (L2s and alternative L1s)

*Requirements*

- 5+ years of general software development experience (and/or a strong software education - with at least 3+ years of active development).
- 3+ years of experience writing, testing, deploying and verifying Solidity applications.
- Served in a capacity at a tech lead level before.
- Build applications that adhere to the latest security best-practices.
- Be inherently motivated and excited to build and scale crypto products.
- Have extensive knowledge of the Hardhat/Foundry testing environments: gorking mainnet state, impersonating accounts, writing custom scripts, etc.
- Have deep insights into gas cost optimization, how Ethereum stores state and data structures in the EVM, opcodes, variable mapping to storage slots, etc.
- Be well versed in thorough code testing principles using eslint, cross-browser testing, acceptance testing, and you can help perform general QA testing, etc.
- You are familiar with Git, Deployment Pipelines, and general best practices.
- Write extensive comments, documentation, design flow diagrams, and review PRs
- Collaborate with the Frontend team to deploy the application

*Nice to have*

- Familiarity with going through Auditing processes end-to-end and/or you have/are yourself an auditor.
- Prior experience developing Decentralized Finance applications
- Experience implementing complex math in Solidity/YUL
- Understanding of zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKS, Groth16) and prior experience writing circuit code.
- Willingness to understand why options are awesome

*Benefits*

- Competitive compensation package
- Early team equity
- Remote and flexible working hours
- Paid time off