Compound

 The majority of cryptocurrencies sit idle on exchanges and in wallets, yielding no interest. At Compound, we’re creating interest rate markets to unlock the value of these assets, empowering investors with new opportunities to profit.

We’re building an open, transparent, frictionless protocol using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Our goal: to create the financial infrastructure that is used for the next hundred years.

The Role

As a Senior Engineer at Compound, you will own a project through from idea through implementation with the support of a small team, helping define the future of Compound’s engineering organization. You will be part of a team which builds smart contracts, back-end services, third-party platform tools and front-end interfaces.

Responsibilities
Build smart contracts in Solidity for the Ethereum blockchain
Understand and ensure the correctness of financial algorithms
Build back-end web services which interact with the Ethereum blockchain.
Collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
Build a platform of tools (on and off-chain) for the developer community

Requirements
4+ years of professional engineering experience
Expertise building web-services for highly-trafficked web services
Ability and experience learning new programming languages
CS degree or in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Pluses
Ethereum blockchain
Solidity, Vyper or Liquidity
Elixir, Pheonix or Exthereum
Functional Programming

Compound’s protocol is a series of open-source smart contracts that algorithmically adjust the interest rates for each asset in real-time, as borrowing demand for the asset changes. Those borrowers, mainly hedge funds, sophisticated speculators and other Ethereum applications, use their portfolio as collateral to borrow from the protocol.