Introduction

Ion Protocol is a price-agnostic lending platform that leverages provable validator-backed data to mint $allETH—an ETH denominated stablecoin.Ion Protocol’s mission is to create new and innovative methods to financialize validator-staked liquidity in the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem by building trustless infrastructure to assess validator credit risk. We are beginning our journey by building a price-agnostic CDP-supported lending market to support various types of staked asset-backed collateral ranging from the familiar LSTs (stETH, rETH, sfrxETH, etc.) to EigenLayer re-staking positions. As we accelerate the growth of the staking ecosystem, we work and collaborate with providers such as Diva Labs, Swell, Puffer Finance, prominent infrastructure providers (Obol, EigenLabs, etc.), and trustless infrastructure providers (Modulus Labs, etc.) to develop across a wide technical stack. 

Who we're looking for

Ion Protocol’s lending market is powered by off-chain data analysis of the Ethereum consensus layer—that is brought on chain via ZK state proofs and zkML.

As a smart contract engineer at Ion, you will collaborate closely with our engineering team to create smart contracts for a lending market that is able to handle billions of TVL and volume in LST liquidity, and to build novel financial primitives surrounding validator-backed assets.

We are looking for a motivated developer that can aptly research and deploy extensive knowledge across DeFi, security, and contract architecture to create mission critical software.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining smart contracts for a decentralized lending market with a proprietary liquidation mechanism.
• Researching and implementing best practices in CDP issuance, liquidations, redemptions, peg stability modules, and EigenLayer re-staking modules.
• Researching and implementing best practices in security, upgradeability, gas optimizations, and other relevant techniques.

Qualifications

We're interested in candidates with one or more of the following qualifications:

• Experience in Solidity smart contract development.
• Experience in other smart contract development languages and frameworks such as, Vyper, Rust, Cairo, or Cosmwasm.
• Experience in smart contract development tools such as Foundry or Hardhat.

Other nice-to-haves

• Experience in smart contract security i.e. reentrancy guards, CEI, data overflows, flashloans, etc.
• Experience working with codebases written by existing DeFi protocols such as MakerDAO, Aave, Compound, Liquity, Euler, etc.
• Experience trading and interfacing with decentralized finance protocols
• Experience in building a production-grade DeFi application deployed to mainnet.

What you’ll like about us

• Working with team members with extensive experience in both blockchain engineering and crypto venture investing.
• A fast paced team shipping product and researching novel mechanisms in decentralized finance.
• A focus on advancing employees’ personal career and network in the crypto ecosystem.
• Extensive network and partnerships with blue chip DeFi and blockchain infrastructure companies.
• A transparent, flat culture between teams.
• Remote work with an option to travel and work in-person with the team at crypto conferences and off-sites (fully comped).
• Both part-time and full-time roles are available.

Once we receive your application, we'll be in touch if we are interested.

Salary

• Salary Negotiable

Contact

• https://ionprotocol.notion.site/Jobs-at-Ion-Protocol-602276d90294478798c878db9c622823?p=3f27c5ace06a482e91e16f955dbb76ce&pm=s