Aave Labs develops products and infrastructure across decentralized finance and Web3. Its work includes DeFi building blocks such as the GHO stablecoin, smart contract development, and decentralized social tools including the Lens protocol. The team operates in the crypto and Web3 sectors.
Senior Smart Contract Engineer at Aave Labs (Remote, US)
Build and secure Aave’s decentralized lending protocol and GHO stablecoin. Design Solidity contracts and DeFi infrastructure for Ethereum and EVM networks.
Description
- Create, implement, and test secure Solidity smart contracts and decentralized applications.
- Lead small to mid-sized smart contract projects from technical planning through launch.
- Help advance protocol work on Aave V4, vaults, and GHO.
- Build and support infrastructure and developer tools at the protocol level.
- Work with engineering and partner teams to deliver protocol capabilities.
- Assess security weaknesses, recreate attack conditions, and help coordinate fixes and responses.
- Diagnose and resolve smart contract and protocol problems in development and production.
- Examine colleagues’ code for soundness, test coverage, and security.
- Keep abreast of developments in Ethereum, DeFi, and smart contract security.
Requirements
- Proven experience developing and launching production smart contracts in Solidity.
- Experience with DeFi protocols and strong understanding of smart contracts, the EVM, and common protocol design approaches.
- Ability to independently plan and deliver clearly scoped smart contract projects.
- Strong technical depth in at least one DeFi area, such as lending, vaults, stablecoins, liquidity, or protocol integrations.
- Strong grasp of smart contract security, including common vulnerabilities, testing methods, and secure development practices.
- Sound technical judgment and the ability to explain decisions and trade-offs clearly.
- History of delivering dependable, thoroughly tested code and giving constructive technical feedback in code reviews.
- Regularly follows exploits, security research, tooling, and developments across the Ethereum ecosystem.
- Strong interest in DeFi and web3 technology.
- Preferred: experience with DeFi vaults, major DeFi protocols or smart contract codebases, protocol adapters, or integrations with external protocols.
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer.
- Remote work arrangement.