What are the responsibilities and job description for the Optimism Staff Engineer position at Agora?
About Agora
Agora is working towards a new paradigm for group collaboration by creating the tools for communities to work together onchain. This is not yet-another-productivity-saas. We believe that to enable the next era of collaboration, we need software that can bend current and create new incentives. No amount of removing friction will change how we work together if our reward functions are misaligned.
Agora is working tirelessly on the best end-to-end governance platform for crypto protocols – the first instance of at-scale onchain collaboration. Leading communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, and more rely on Agora to coordinate their community around critical protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, and steward their ecosystem for the future.
But that’s not where we stop. Our goal is to build deep collaboration tools for people who couldn’t care less about crypto so that one day (soon), your friends back home are using Agora without ever knowing we’re on Ethereum.
What you'll do
You will be working with our co-founder, and one of our staff engineers on the Optimism roadmap at Agora. As Optimism Core Devs, Agora is constantly working on various work streams across different teams within the OP collective. The main areas of focus will be:
Agora operates as a remote, distributed team with headquarters in San Francisco. We gather quarterly for full-team offsites held in various locations across the country. Although our team is globally distributed, we work during US-friendly hours, specifically in the PST/EST time zones.
Agora is working towards a new paradigm for group collaboration by creating the tools for communities to work together onchain. This is not yet-another-productivity-saas. We believe that to enable the next era of collaboration, we need software that can bend current and create new incentives. No amount of removing friction will change how we work together if our reward functions are misaligned.
Agora is working tirelessly on the best end-to-end governance platform for crypto protocols – the first instance of at-scale onchain collaboration. Leading communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, and more rely on Agora to coordinate their community around critical protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, and steward their ecosystem for the future.
But that’s not where we stop. Our goal is to build deep collaboration tools for people who couldn’t care less about crypto so that one day (soon), your friends back home are using Agora without ever knowing we’re on Ethereum.
What you'll do
You will be working with our co-founder, and one of our staff engineers on the Optimism roadmap at Agora. As Optimism Core Devs, Agora is constantly working on various work streams across different teams within the OP collective. The main areas of focus will be:
- The Optimism Governance app
- The OP Retro Funding app
- The OP Governance API
- 6 years of experience in production software development
- 3 years of hands-on experience with front-end frameworks like React, Next.js, Remix or equivalent
- Strong TypeScript fundamentals and expertise
- Deep understanding of Ethereum architecture and familiarity with L2 solutions
- Ability to read Solidity code
- Experience building or working with indexers (e.g., Subgraph, Shovel, Ponder)
- Strong computer science fundamentals, particularly in building scalable and maintainable systems
- A track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable code that facilitates collaboration within a codebase
- You are excited about Optimism
- You want to start committing code on day one
- Contributions to the Optimism / Superchain ecosystem
- Experience working on open-source projects
- Expertise in designing for crypto applications
- Experience working with:
- EAS
- IPFS
- Farcaster
- Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure through:
- Building design systems
- Making it easier for others to contribute effectively
- Ownership – both in responsibility and equity. We’re a small team with high trust and expectations of each other. We want you to own a sizeable chunk of of the product and company, and structure our compensation accordingly.
- Competitive benefits – we offer health, vision and dental benefits.
- A strong team – we’re a small team that values experience, character and integrity. You’ll work with peers you respect, and who respect you.
- A seat at the table – you will come to all offsites, and be part of all strategic discussions. We’re hiring for a technical leader, and will treat you as such
- A path to grow – our goal is to retain all early hires as senior leaders as the company scales. We believe folks with the best expertise and deep context should lead organizations, even if they don’t traditionally self-identify as people managers.
Agora operates as a remote, distributed team with headquarters in San Francisco. We gather quarterly for full-team offsites held in various locations across the country. Although our team is globally distributed, we work during US-friendly hours, specifically in the PST/EST time zones.
