Protocol Engineer

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🕒 April 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Rockstar

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1 - 10 employees

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👥 HR Tech

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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📋 Description

• Design, implement, and optimize Solidity-based smart contracts for projects related to the protocol, focusing on security, efficiency, and maintainability. • Provide technical guidance and design feedback for external developers building on the protocol and Unichain, including hook developers and DeFi projects. • Explore and prototype new DeFi primitives, trading mechanisms, and smart contract architectures to expand the protocol’s capabilities. • Participate in design sessions and code reviews, ensuring high standards in code quality, security, and organization. • Implement unit tests, fuzz testing, and gas optimizations to ensure smart contract reliability and performance. • As a Protocol Engineer, the candidate may work on: • Hooks and reference implementations for the protocol's latest version • Experimental swapping UX designs • Indexers and graph traversal algorithms • Composable DeFi legos • SDK abstractions and developer tooling • Periphery integrations such as liquidity management tools and swap-and-add functionalities

🎯 Requirements

• Strong understanding of DeFi patterns and smart contract architecture • At least two years of experience writing complex Solidity smart contracts with an emphasis on readability, maintainability, and security • Proficiency with Foundry, including cheatcodes, foundry.toml, and script execution • Experience with unit testing and fuzz testing for smart contract security • Confidence using Git and managing version control in a collaborative engineering environment • Ability to design clean abstractions and reusable smart contract components • Familiarity with the protocol's latest version contracts and related DeFi protocols • Nice to Haves: • Experience with Yul and low-level opcodes for gas-efficient smart contract development • Knowledge of gas optimization techniques • Experience with invariant testing for smart contract correctness • Public speaking experience for developer outreach and technical presentations • Familiarity with TypeScript for SDK and front-end integrations