Compensation

Competitive

Remote within

United States

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Web3
Blockchain
TypeScript
JavaScript
Smart Contracts
DeFi
Truffle
Node.js

Benefits & perks

Remote working
Equity
Start-up

Abacus aims to make the "Which chain(s) should I deploy on?" question obsolete.

Role overview

At Abacus Works, the team is working on Abacus, an inter-blockchain messaging platform. Our mission is to empower developers to build the next generation of multi-chain decentralized applications.

Abacus Works is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join as an early engineering team hire.

In this role you will

Build out the Abacus Platform and its features (for example how applications do cross-chain gas payments)
Build services for developers to build on top of Abacus (for example a block explorer that tracks messages across chains)
Build libraries/SDKs (for example a library to easily manage wallets on the dapps UI)
Work with partner dapps to help them create the next generation of multi-chain decentralized applications
Set and maintain engineering best practices within the team
BONUS: Help grow the team

For this role you have

3+ years of experience building software, ideally in environments where other developers had to consume your APIs/libraries
3+ years of Typescript/Javascript/Node.js
Excellent communication skills and experience writing developer-facing documentation
Ability to operate independently under uncertainty
Strong sense of initiative and ownership
BONUS: Experience working on a developer-focused platform
BONUS: Experience within the blockchain space
BONUS: Experience with smart contract development stacks like Hardhat, Foundry, Truffle, Remix, etc.

Abacus Network

What is Abacus? Abacus is a developer platform that allows users to build interchain decentralized applications. Applications built on top of Abacus can share state across multiple blockchains using Abacus' generalized cross-chain messaging protocol. Abacus isn’t a blockchain. Abacus is how you build truly interchain applications. What problem does Abacus solve? Abacus aims to make the "Which chain(s) should I deploy on?" question obsolete. In traditional web development, the choice of hosting environment is mostly an afterthought. While material differences exist between cloud providers, the experience that the developer can deliver to their users is not meaningfully impacted by this choice. On the other hand, a web3 developer's choice of hosting environment can have existential implications for them and their users. Decentralized applications have largely succeeded due to accessibility and composability, but applications are only accessible and composable within the chain on which they're deployed. Until now. We envision a world where developers think more about the application they're building than the substrate they're building it on. Where developers and applications are not tied to a single chain. Where developers can build applications that are accessible from everywhere and composable with everything. How does Abacus work? Abacus is a generalized messaging protocol that allows applications to communicate between blockchains. With a simple smart contract call, Alice on Ethereum can send a message to Bob on Avalanche. Abacus is secured by a proof-of-stake validator set in combination with a novel approach to application-specific security we call sovereign consensus