Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Grants 2.0) at Gitcoin

role overview

We are looking for a Senior Engineer - Full Stack to join us as a full-time contributor in the GitcoinDAO within our Gitcoin Product Collective (GPC) workstream, developing the future of our grants protocol. In this role, you will work alongside fellow engineers, designers, and product managers as part of a dedicated product group to create new products, implement new features, and work to establish our protocol as the best place to raise and fund public goods in web3. This role includes implementing architecture improvements, writing code for our frontends and Solidity contracts on EVM-compatible networks, empathizing with our users, stakeholders, and community, and collaborating to review, test, and deploy code with the rest of our engineering team.

requirements

• you are driven to build software people notice. Grants 2 is a significant evolution of what is already a pillar of the web3 funding ecosystem
• you like to ship
• you value being in a team, building as a team, and shipping as a team
• you value establishing an end-to-end working system before diving deep to iterate on refining the perfect component
• you are persistent in the face of roadblocks. When you can't get something done, you communicate consistently and clearly, so your team knows how to help
• you value working in public
• you value psychological safety, giving and receiving feedback, and working in a no-blame culture
• you deeply value automated tests. The build stays green
• you collaborate effectively with your engineering peers to identify problems/risks in architecture design and arrive together at optimal solutions/remediations
• you advocate for and understand how to incrementally refactor code to continually improve a codebase while ensuring that the systems are designed to scale
• you can empathize with customers and our user base to understand their needs
• you agree that a passionate, inclusive, collaborative team of missionaries consistently outperforms a loose group of individual mercenaries

tech stack

• Front End: Typescript, React (or similar), HTML, CSS
• Infrastructure: AWS, ECS, Pulumi, Fleek, Vercel
• Automated testing: Jest, Hardhat
• Web3: Solidity, Ethereum, TheGraph, IPFS, Ceramic, cross-chain integrations, browser-based crypto wallets such as MetaMask

culture & perks

• You can work from anywhere! Our entirely distributed team spans five continents
• Learn and grow with an experienced and talented team that values hard work and continuous improvement
• Flexible time off (and a culture that takes it)
• Operationally, you build your working agreements collaboratively with your team, be clear about your availability, and work out the mechanisms you and your team need to be effective.
• Culturally, we are mission-aligned and motivated to build new coordination systems the world needs to overcome our most significant challenges.

about us

Gitcoin is the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. We built Gitcoin as a means to grow and sustain public goods. We have helped people building public goods in Web3 & beyond raise over $60M by enabling institutions and the community to fund each other with cryptocurrency.