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We have ambitious goals. To achieve them, we will face a number of engineering challenges in software and hardware as we optimize a stack-based virtual machine, a storage layer maintaining state for millions of accounts, a consensus mechanism for keeping thousands of nodes (distributed across the world) in sync, and a variety of components and standards that support a thriving ecosystem of decentralized apps.
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Ecosystem Associate, APAC

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Asia
Full time
Remote
Founded by former Jump Trading members, Monad Labs is a technology startup focusing on high-speed programming, compiler optimization, and multithreaded computing to construct an ultra-high-performance smart contract platform. They are seeking a dedicated team member to contribute to building an optimal stack-based VM that supports multithreaded computation and implementing an efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) algorithm for consensus among a network of nodes. Monad Labs recently secured $225M in series A funding to expand their team and advance the development of the Monad blockchain.

Role Overview:

The Ecosystem Growth team is responsible for driving the growth of the Monad ecosystem by supporting teams working on ambitious projects on the platform. As an Ecosystem Growth Associate, you will be tasked with developing and overseeing growth initiatives for early to mid-stage projects across different sectors like DeFi, gaming, and NFTs. Utilizing a blend of creativity and data-driven insights, you will strategically prioritize support for various verticals, manage internal and external systems, and address challenges proactively. The ideal candidate should demonstrate self-sufficiency, organization, ambition, and possess experience in L1/L2 ecosystem development.

This role is fundamental to the success and expansion of Monad, offering a distinctive opportunity to significantly influence the trajectory of the ecosystem.

Qualifications:

Two or more years of experience in ecosystem growth within a blockchain environment or similar field

Proactive, team-oriented mindset with strong bias towards action

Adaptable, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented approach

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Ability to manage diverse stakeholders and cultivate long-term relationships effectively

Bonus skills:

Previous experience in early-stage startup settings

Established industry relationships

Proficiency in multiple languages

Key Responsibilities:

Devise and implement initiatives to fuel growth within the Monad ecosystem

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Business Development, DevRel, Marketing, and Operations

Engage with a spectrum of partners, developers, investors, and service providers to drive ecosystem expansion

Oversee programs such as grants and hackathons to attract and engage developers in the Monad ecosystem

Why Join Monad Labs:

Groundbreaking opportunity. Monad offers innovative solutions that combine portability and performance, catering to widespread adoption within the crypto landscape.

Team synergy. A highly skilled team with extensive experience in low-latency engineering, particularly in TradFi markets, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of decentralized computation.

Collaborative culture. A close-knit team striving towards ambitious goals while fostering a culture of collaboration and humility.

Impactful contributions. Your role will significantly impact making decentralized computation more accessible and cost-efficient, facilitating the development of new applications improving lives.

Competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Access to resources and growth potential backed by renowned venture funds and leaders in the industry.

Compensation and Benefits:

Competitive full-time salary ranging from $125,000 - $175,000 (*actual offer may vary based on experience and location).

Business Development Associate

NYC, USA
NYC, USA
Full time
Office
Monad Labs is a startup focusing on building the Monad blockchain, a high-performance smart contract platform designed to drive widespread adoption of decentralized applications. With a throughput of 10,000 transactions per second, the platform offers backward compatibility for Ethereum smart contracts and aims to provide users and developers with enhanced capabilities.

Established by former members of Jump Trading, our team specializes in solving complex distributed systems engineering challenges and optimizing for low-latency, creating innovative open-source code to develop a high-performance, reliable system of great value.

Having secured $225 million in funding, we are expanding our team and seeking individuals eager to contribute to solving impactful issues in a dynamic environment.

Job Role Overview

We are in search of a Business Development Associate to drive strategic market development and cultivate new business opportunities. This role plays a key part in the early and middle stages of the business development process, optimizing and executing inbound/outbound lead strategies. The key focus involves identifying potential opportunities within the industry and establishing strong relationships with projects interested in utilizing the Monad blockchain.

The role is crucial for the success of Monad as it will be essential in shaping the ecosystem's landscape across apps and infrastructure.

A major part of our team is based in NYC, collaborating three days per week. We are open to considering remote candidates, with a preference for those located in NYC.

Qualifications

Self-motivated and resourceful

Team player with strong collaboration and communication skills

Deeply interested in the cryptocurrency industry

Adaptable and excels in fast-paced environments

Focused on task prioritization and multitasking

Entrepreneurial mindset

Committed to personal growth and development

Humble and self-aware

Energetic with a positive attitude

Curious and eager to expand domain knowledge

Comfortable with versatility in responsibilities

Desired Qualifications

Minimum of 2 years of experience in business development or a similar role in the web3 industry, preferably within early-stage startups

Excellent communication skills and familiarity with web3 communication styles

Ability to recognize partner needs and effectively address pain points/value propositions

Action-oriented with a team-focused mindset

Strong understanding of crypto concepts, technical aspects, culture, and industry segments

Exceptional time management skills

Skilled networker with the ability to build and maintain industry relationships

Proactive and self-motivated with an inclination towards pursuing opportunities

Strategic thinker capable of efficiently assessing opportunities and driving initiatives

Bonus Qualifications

Established industry relationships

In-depth knowledge of various blockchain ecosystem sectors (e.g., defi, infrastructure)

Experience overseeing complex projects involving internal and external stakeholders

Job Responsibilities

Manage inbound leads and evaluate relationships as the primary contact point

Streamline lead-focused processes and strategies

Initiate strategic outbound activities to engage with key prospects

Identify and pursue promising opportunities proactively

Develop expertise in specific segments to contribute to category strategy and direction

Collaborate cross-functionally to support internal teams with business development tasks

Drive complex deal contracts and negotiations to successful completion

Why Join Us

Exciting Opportunity: Monad’s innovations offer a significant advancement in decentralized computation, attracting developers with the promise of improved performance for mass user adoption in the crypto industry.

Expert Team: Our team possesses extensive experience in low-latency engineering approaches critical for pushing decentralized computation boundaries. We are assembling a top-tier team across various functions including BD, Growth, DevRel, and Marketing.

Collaborative Culture: We are a close-knit team working together towards ambitious objectives. Our collaborative environment fosters a culture of teamwork and innovation where contributions are valued.

Impactful Work: Your role will have a profound impact by making decentralized computation more accessible and cost-effective, driving the creation of new blockchain applications that can enhance people's lives.

Competitive Compensation: You will receive a competitive salary and equity package.

Supportive Environment: Backed by leading venture funds and industry experts, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow as part of our lean and well-capitalized team.

Compensation and Benefits

You will be offered a minimum full-time salary of $95,000. Other benefits at Monad Labs include generous paid time off, insurance coverage, office equipment stipend, wellness/fitness allowance, and observance of ten company holidays.

Workplace Operations Associate

NYC, USA
NYC, USA
Full time
Office
About Monad

Founded by Jump Trading alums, Monad Labs is a tech startup utilizing low-latency programming, compiler optimization, and multithreaded computing to create an ultra-high-performance smart contract platform. The role involves constructing an optimal stack-based VM supporting multithreaded computation and developing an efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) algorithm for achieving network consensus. We recently secured $225M in Series A funding to expand our team for the production of the Monad blockchain.

Monad Labs is seeking a Workplace Operations Associate to manage all aspects of in-office and remote operations for the team. This position involves diverse responsibilities across departments and necessitates strong communication skills, organization, and collaboration with various teams. We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, results-oriented, thrives in a startup environment, and able to manage multiple work streams effectively.

Who you are

Resourceful and self-motivated

Team-oriented, collaborative, and a strong communicator

Adaptive and capable of delivering in a fast-paced setting

Proactive, organized, and detail-oriented

Acts as an internal and external main contact for workplace matters and office needs

Enjoys dogs as our office is dog-friendly

Requirements

2+ years of operational, administrative, or related experience

Proficient in organization, project management tools, and communication platforms (Notion, G-Suite, Slack)

Demonstrated time management skills handling multiple tasks concurrently

Able to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including managing stakeholder expectations

Located in NYC

Responsibilities

The Workplace Operations Associate will be responsible for in-office and workplace administration and cross-departmental initiatives, including:

Ensuring smooth team and office operations and liaising with vendors when necessary

Managing office supplies, lunch orders, and refreshments

Collaborating with the Operations team and cross-functional leaders to enhance the overall employee and workplace experience

Executing various tasks supporting organization needs and assisting executives with personal tasks as required

Perks of Working with Us

Impactful work: Building technology for a vast market and contributing to the creation of decentralized technology.

Culture: Valuing a low ego, high responsibility, and collaborative work environment.

Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits package.

Resources and growth: Possessing ample resources to make a significant impact with a lean team and room for personal growth.

As an early team member, you'll have the opportunity to mold our culture and contribute to the company's growth.

Salary and Benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $90,000-$100,000 (final offer may vary based on experience, expertise, and location). Benefits include paid time off, insurance coverage, in-office equipment stipend, wellness/fitness stipend, and company holidays.

Senior Software Engineer, Low-Latency Systems

Full time
Remote
About the Company

Monad Labs is a young tech startup founded by individuals with a background at Jump Trading. They are focused on leveraging low-latency programming, compiler optimization, and multithreaded computing to create a cutting-edge smart contract platform with superior performance.

Role Overview

Monad Labs is seeking talented software engineers who thrive on tackling complex challenges in performance engineering and low-level optimizations. Ideal candidates should have a penchant for developing systems under constrained memory and compute resources. As a part of a small team of highly skilled professionals, you will delve into impactful issues within a dynamic environment. Prior experience in cryptocurrency is not obligatory for this role.

Desired Qualifications

Resourceful and self-driven

Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills

Adaptive to rapid-paced environments to deliver substantial contributions

Well-versed in software architecture principles

Driven to consistently enhance system performance through optimizations

Passion for constructing fault-tolerant distributed systems of significant value

Prior Experience Guidelines

Extensive expertise in C++ development

Background in high-frequency trading (HFT) or embedded systems development, encompassing domains like packet processing, robotics, etc.

Strong intuition for software architecture

Proficiency in performance optimization and profiling tools

Skilled in proper memory management

Familiarity with Unix, shell scripting, and Python

Preferred but not mandatory: Bachelor's degree in a technical field; 5 years of industry experience

Responsibilities

Enhance a high-performance multithreaded stack-based VM and ancillary functions

Utilize profiling to pinpoint bottlenecks and assess design options for accelerating computational flow

Design and implement architectural enhancements

Contribute to developer tool development

Tech stack includes C++, clang, LLVM, gdb, perf, Unix, and Git

Why Join Our Team

Address highly challenging problems with transformative potential

Competitive salary and equity offerings

Mental wellness and fitness benefits

Influence the workplace culture as a founding member and generate impactful outcomes from the outset

Enjoy a flat organizational structure for efficient communication and decision-making

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary of at least $200,000 per year (actual compensation may adjust based on factors like experience and location)

Comprehensive benefits such as generous paid time off, insurance coverage, home office equipment provision, monthly wellness/fitness stipend, and 10 company holidays

Senior DevOps Engineer

NYC, USA
NYC, USA
Full time
Office
Monad Labs is a tech startup that is focused on developing the Monad blockchain, which is a smart contract platform designed to promote the widespread use of decentralized apps. The platform has impressive performance capabilities, with the ability to handle 10,000 transactions per second, and is fully compatible with Ethereum smart contracts. Monad achieves this performance through innovations in parallel execution and distributed consensus.

Established by former employees of Jump Trading, Monad Labs has substantial backing from prominent figures in the crypto space, including Dragonfly, Placeholder, and Naval Ravikant. Despite being a small startup with a team of 25 people, we are based in New York City and our ambitions are significant.

The position:

We are currently seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who possesses extensive knowledge of Linux systems and has a strong background in developing new automation for infrastructure and testing purposes. As our first DevOps hire, you will play a vital role in the development of our system, contributing to the creation of a robust and high-performance platform. This will involve enhancing our automated testing capabilities for a distributed system, managing and improving our Linux systems and networking architecture, and working closely with our development teams to ensure scalability, observability, and security.

This position is for a hybrid role in New York City, requiring three days on-site at our NoMad office.

About you:

The desired requirements for this role include:

At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Linux Engineering

Proven experience in setting up a DevOps environment and creating a CI/CD platform from scratch using tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins

Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet

Proficiency in at least one back-end development language like Python, Go, or C++

Strong command-line git skills

Familiarity with writing scripts for deploying and maintaining infrastructure, such as Linux installations, clusters, and networks

Experience in evaluating and improving observability and security practices

Knowledge of network setup and maintenance

Familiarity with virtualization technologies like Docker and Qemu

Ability to write scripts and assist with testing and automation activities

Key responsibilities:

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Building, testing, monitoring, and deploying code across multiple cloud and hosted environments

Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu) installations

Establishing testing infrastructure for a system with elements of high-performance computation and distributed systems

Maintaining and enhancing our network infrastructure for clusters of Ethereum-like nodes

Contributing to the development of observability standards and security measures

Participating in an on-call rotation for production support

What we offer:

Working for Monad Labs presents exciting opportunities, including solving challenging problems with potential massive impact and collaborating with an exceptional team. You will receive a competitive salary, along with equity in the company. As an early employee, you will have the chance to shape the company's culture and make significant contributions from the outset. We operate as a flat, results-driven organization. Your work will play a crucial role in enabling cheaper and more efficient decentralized computation, paving the way for new decentralized apps that improve people's lives.

Additional benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off, health coverage, a home office equipment stipend, a monthly wellness/fitness stipend, and 10 company-observed holidays.

Minimum full-time salary starts from $175,000 (final salary offer may vary based on factors such as experience and location).

We look forward to having you work with us in our NYC office, in a hybrid capacity (3 days/week).

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Senior Software Engineer, Integrations

Full time
Remote
Job Description

Monad Labs is an established startup that is focused on building the Monad blockchain. As a high-performance smart contract platform, our goal is to bring decentralized apps to a broader audience. We provide 1000x the throughput of Ethereum, allowing for 10,000 transactions per second. Additionally, we support backward-compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts, combining the best of both worlds for users and developers.

Our team, composed of former Jump Trading professionals, addresses complex problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization. We create innovative open source code to develop a new system that is highly reliable, high-value, and high-performing.

Recently, we secured $19 million in seed funding from renowned investors such as Dragonfly Capital, Placeholder Capital, and Naval Ravikant, among others. This investment has allowed us to expand our team. We are currently looking for exceptional engineers who are excited about taking on challenging and impactful projects in a fast-paced environment.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Monad Labs, you will become part of our core engineering team and focus on integrating blockchain with external systems. This includes working on components like JSON-RPC, indexers, wallets, bridges, storage, analytics platforms, and applications. Leveraging your experience in blockchain engineering, you will develop intuitive and high-performance systems. You will collaborate with a small and dynamic team within our startup atmosphere.

Who You Are

You have a minimum of four years of software engineering experience.

You have previous experience in blockchain engineering, specifically working on Layer-1, Layer-2, or Infrastructure projects (such as Oracle, Bridge, Indexer, RPC Provider, Wallet, or other high-performance apps).

You possess backend engineering skills in low-level programming languages like C, C++, or Rust.

You have successfully built significant systems from scratch.

You are an excellent communicator and are comfortable participating in technical discussions, reviews, and documentation.

You share the values that define Monad's Engineering team, including a practical and common-sense approach to problem-solving, strong design skills, a track record of excellence, and a rigorous development mindset.

Why Work with Us

You will tackle extremely challenging problems with significant impact.

You will have the opportunity to work with and learn from an exceptional and close-knit team.

You will receive a competitive salary and a comprehensive compensation package.

You will play a crucial role in shaping our company culture as an early employee and make meaningful contributions from day one.

You will be part of a flat and results-oriented organization.

Your work will have a profound and lasting impact.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a minimum full-time salary of $200,000. Please note that this figure is not a guarantee and final compensation may vary based on factors such as experience and location.

Monad Labs also provides a range of benefits, including unlimited paid time off, comprehensive insurance coverage, a home office equipment stipend, a monthly wellness/fitness stipend, and 10 company-observed holidays.

Senior Software Engineer, Consensus

NYC, USA
NYC, USA
Full time
Office
Job description:

Monad Labs is a fast-growing tech startup focused on developing the Monad blockchain, a smart contract platform designed to revolutionize decentralized apps. With cutting-edge technology, including parallel execution and distributed consensus, Monad offers unparalleled performance and full compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts.

Our team, comprised of former Jump Trading professionals, tackles complex challenges in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, creating innovative open source code to enhance system performance, reliability, and value.

Following a successful seed funding round of $19 million from industry leaders like Dragonfly Capital, Placeholder Capital, and Naval Ravikant, we are seeking exceptional engineers to join our team. If you are passionate about working on impactful projects in a rapid-paced environment, this opportunity is for you.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will primarily focus on improving Monad's BFT consensus mechanism, mempool, and p2p networking layer. Your responsibilities include:

Designing and implementing enhancements to the Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism and Peer-to-Peer (p2p) networking layer.

Researching and implementing state-of-the-art BFT algorithms.

Optimizing the performance of the consensus mechanism.

Creating tests to validate the reliability and accuracy of the consensus mechanism.

Requirements:

To be successful in this role, you should possess the following:

Practical experience with BFT consensus mechanisms.

Practical experience with gossip protocols.

Familiarity with distributed databases or state machines.

Understanding of consensus protocols like Paxos and Raft.

Knowledge of concepts such as vector clocks, synchronous vs. asynchronous networks.

Proficiency in network protocols like TCP/UDP.

Experience with distributed tracing and debugging in distributed environments.

Programming experience in a statically-typed language such as C++, Rust, or Go.

Bonus:

While not mandatory, the following qualifications are highly desirable:

Contributions to open source projects.

Prior experience working in startups.

Knowledge of the crypto industry.

Why join us:

Working at Monad Labs offers numerous benefits, including:

Tackling challenging problems with widespread impact.

Learning from a talented, small team of experts.

Competitive salary and equity.

Shaping the company culture as an early employee.

Being part of a results-driven, flat organization.

Contributing to the development of more efficient decentralized computation and new dapps that enhance people's lives.

Salary and benefits:

Monad Labs provides a competitive salary with a minimum full-time salary of $200,000+. Compensation may vary based on factors such as experience and location.

Additionally, we offer the following benefits:

Unlimited and encouraged paid time off.

Health coverage.

Home office equipment stipend.

Monthly wellness/fitness stipend.

10 company-observed holidays.

While our team is primarily located in NYC and works together several days a week, we are open to remote candidates but show preference to those based in NYC.