Job Description
Job Description
Monad Labs is the team building Monad, the performant and parallel EVM Layer-1 blockchain. We are a team of systems engineers and community builders who are on a mission to help crypto eat the world.
After recently raising $225M in series A funding led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.
The Role
Monad Labs is looking for strong software engineers who enjoy solving challenging performance engineering and low-level optimizations problems.
Candidates with experience developing systems with lean memory and compute limits are an ideal match. You will be part of a small, deeply technical team, working on high-impact problems in a fast-paced environment.
Although we are building a new blockchain, previous experience with crypto is not expected.
Who you are
- Resourceful and self-motivated
- Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator
- Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
- Opinionated about software architecture
- Motivated to push the limits of system performance through repeated optimization
- Interested in building high-value fault-tolerant distributed systems
What you've done
- Years of C++ development experience
- HFT or embedded systems development, such as writing software for packet processing, communication, codecs, robotics, etc.
- Excellent instincts for software architecture
- Knowledge of performance optimization / profiling tools
- Knowledge of proper memory management
- Knowledge of unix, shell scripting, and python
- Ideal but not required : Bachelors in technical field; 5 years' experience
What you'll be doing
- Optimizing a high-performance multithreaded stack-based VM, as well as ancillary functionality (disk I / O, computation metering, network)
- Identifying bottlenecks through profiling, and evaluate design choices for accelerating computation flow
- Designing and implementing architecture improvements
- Contributing to developer tooling
- Tech stack : C++, clang, LLVM, gdb, perf, unix, git
Why work with us
- Challenging problems. You'll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.
- Huge opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are very slow.
Monad's core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto.
- The right team. You'll be part of a small, exceptional team (bios here).
- Culture . We're a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs.
As an early member of our team, you'll help continue to shape our culture.
- Compensation . You'll receive a competitive salary and equity package.
- Resources and growth. We're well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures.
We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You'll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.
Salary and Benefits
Minimum full-time salary of $200,000. ( This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, domain expertise, and geographic location.)
Monad Labs' benefits for US-based full-time employees include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% coverage for employees);
unlimited and encouraged paid time off; monthly mental health and fitness stipend; paid parental leave; and 10 company-observed holidays.
Our team is headquartered in NoMad, Manhattan, NYC. This is for a hybrid (3 days / week in office) role.