Senior Solidity Engineer

About Maple

Maple transforms institutional lending, leveraging innovative technology to empower lending markets.

Our goal is to be the most reliable lender in the global financial system, distinguished by our commitment to superior user experience and transparency. At Maple, we embody a culture of ownership, relentless execution, and unwavering commitment to our customers, partners and team.

Founded in 2019, Maple has grown to become the leading institutional lender across crypto markets having originated >$17B in loans to date. The team has built a dynamic and innovative product that leverages the benefits of blockchain and smart contract technology with an intuitive and feature rich application.

The Team

Today the Maple team is 30+ strong, with exceptional backgrounds across tech, finance and defi.

Remote from North/South America, Europe, Africa

Role

We are looking to find an experienced Solidity Engineer to join our existing smart contracts team of highly experienced A-grade engineers, each with 4+ years of commercial experience with Solidity. You’ll be working with advanced smart contracts, working on new features for the protocol and creating new technical DeFi primitives. Your code must be auditable, gas-efficient, well-formatted and commented with accompanying documentation. A strong interest and passion for the potential of DeFi is essential, as well as a high degree of focus on security and comprehensive testing.

The Opportunity

This role puts the right candidate at ground zero of a Global Capital Markets platform for the future of Institutional Credit and they will heavily impact/influence the further development of it over the coming years.

We require a Solidity Engineer with experience and high code quality standards to match the scope of our vision to expand the digital economy. In this role you will build the contracts to support innovative new features that our users will find the most valuable.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and testing secure Solidity-based smart contracts
• Preparing smart contracts to be audited and remediating any issues that arise
• Responding to security vulnerabilities, simulating the scenario, and evaluating a strategy and response
• Implementing and maintaining robust monitoring systems for both security and informational purposes
• Reviewing code written by other engineers to ensure it meets the required standards and specifications with a focus on security
• Designing, implementing, testing and maintaining keeper systems to automate smart contract functionality
• Staying up to date with developments in the Ethereum ecosystem and incorporating new technologies as appropriate
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and functionality

Requirements

• First class collaborative ethos and personal attitude
• 2+ years experience in Solidity development
• 4+ years in general software engineering
• Previously deployed projects to Mainnet
• Experience with proxy patterns
• Experience with Foundry or other testing frameworks for Solidity
• Familiar with extensive testing requirements for Solidity based smart contracts
• Passionate about the DeFi space
• Strong understanding of best practices in repository management
• Fluent in English

Nice if you have it

• Experience working with yield accruing tokens/protocols
• Experience working with a protocol with significant TVL/Volume
• Familiarity with low level EVM concepts
• Familiarity with fuzz testing
• Familiarity with invariant testing

What’s in it for you

• Base salary paid in your choice of crypto (USDC) or local fiat currency
• SYRUP token allocation, giving you a stake in Maple’s long term success
• 30 days paid time off (PTO)
• Fully remote and flexible working giving you the autonomy to live and work your way
• Optional access to shared working space at your local WeWork or equivalent
• Contract or full time employment opportunities including all local statutory benefits
• Fully transparent and collaborative team culture
• Funding for personal skills development
• Annual team offsite events

If you subscribe to the values of Maple - Personal Ownership, Focused Execution, User Prioritisation, Innovative Mindset - and want to be part of a collaborative culture focused on bringing Global Finance into the future, then we want to hear from you!

We look forward to receiving your application and will be in touch after having a chance to review.