Senior Protocol Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will accelerate a protocol roadmap by contributing across the full lifecycle of protocol development: research and mechanism design, Solidity implementation, formal verification, and audit cycles. You will run parallel workstreams on new lending primitives, liquidation improvements, oracle integrations, and fixed-rate loans. You will write and review production Solidity code prioritising correctness, gas efficiency, and simplicity. You will lead medium-to-large protocol initiatives end-to-end and think adversarially about security, identifying attack vectors, edge cases, and failure modes. You will prototype ideas using formal analysis, simulation, or verification and collaborate with other engineers and leadership on architecture and deployment decisions.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent depth of knowledge
- 5+ years of experience in software architectural design and implementation of complex systems
- 2+ years of experience in blockchain R&D with protocol design and implementation
- Excellent abstraction capacity to understand and distil complex mechanisms
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to design elegant systems while shipping pragmatic implementations
- Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous contexts
- Strong ownership and autonomy
- Creativity and critical thinking to challenge designs and propose novel solutions
- Team-first mindset, low ego, and genuine curiosity about DeFi
- Humble
Responsibilities
- Research and design new lending mechanisms, liquidation strategies, and oracle integrations
- Write and review production Solidity code prioritising correctness, gas efficiency, and simplicity
- Lead medium-to-large protocol initiatives end-to-end from research through deployment
- Think adversarially about protocol design and identify attack vectors and failure modes
- Prototype protocol ideas using formal analysis, simulation, or verification
- Collaborate cross-functionally on architecture decisions to keep the protocol stack coherent
- Review research and conduct literature reviews to bring external insights
Benefits
- P90 base compensation via Pave benchmarks
- MORPHO token grants
- Relocation support for candidates moving to Paris
- Health coverage
- Real flexibility
- Time together in Paris
- Support for continued learning