Smart Contract Engineer

WHO WE ARE Paxos Labs builds enterprise infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted onchain financial products. We work with the largest financial enterprises in the world to build transparent and verifiable onchain infrastructure that works for end users and everyday financial use cases. If you believe in bringing DeFi and digital assets to the mainstream, consider building your career at Paxos Labs. We're hiring a Smart Contract Engineer to help scale Paxos Labs's DeFi protocol infrastructure capabilities. WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR The smart contract team at Paxos Labs consists of experienced developers who have shipped multiple decentralized primitives from lending markets to vaults. We are looking for a motivated developer that can not only develop, but aptly research and deploy extensive knowledge across DeFi to create mission critical software to bring DeFi to the biggest enterprises in the world. Most importantly, we are looking for developers with interests in the following: 1. DeFi Yield Strategies 2. Tokenization 3. Decentralized Lending 4. Under/un-collateralized Lending RESPONSIBILITIES - Research and design novel protocol mechanisms around vaults, lending, and other DeFi primitives. - Lead protocol design decision making considering tradeoffs across trust assumptions and efficiency. - Develop solidity contracts and produce comprehensive test suites for the protocol. - Maintain exemplary organizational and security standards for an open source codebase. QUALIFICATIONS Knowledge Deep knowledge refers to having direct contributions or having integration experiences through related projects and knowing lower level details. Familiarity refers to not having had direct contributions to the space but following topics at a high level with interest. - Deep knowledge in Lending codebases—Compound, Aave, Morpho Blue, MakerDAO, Euler, EVC, Liquity, Pendle. - Deep knowledge in Vaults codebases—Yearn V3, Metamorpho / Morpho V2, BoringVaults, ERC7540, Centrif