Staff Backend Engineer
Agora provides an end-to-end, open-source governance platform for crypto protocols. It enables communities to deploy and operate customizable on-chain governance systems, including voting, delegation, proposal management, and related integrations.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
Funding history
About Agora
Agora is a governance software company serving crypto protocols and their communities. Its platform provides a no-code, customizable governance system based on OpenZeppelin Governor, with features such as gasless voting and proposing, delegation, role management, proposal types, transaction simulation, staking-token support, and API, Snapshot, and Discourse integrations. Agora also offers expert services for progressive decentralization, tokenomics, airdrops, claims, and community participation, while supporting protocol teams including Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, Derive, Ether.fi, Cyber, Xai, B3, and Scroll.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will architect and develop complex systems and foundational infrastructure, manage project priorities and deliverables, and mentor team members on design techniques and coding standards. You will contribute technical leadership to Agora’s application development strategy and implementation as a backend-leaning full-stack engineer.
Requirements
- Backend-leaning full-stack development experience
- Familiarity with crypto applications interfacing with protocols
- Experience using and building decentralized applications
- Open-source experience or contributions
- Strong work ethic
- Focus on software craft and quality
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop complex systems
- Develop foundational infrastructure components
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Mentor and train team members on design techniques and coding standards
- Drive application development strategy and implementation
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- No-limit company card
- Executive assistant access
- Offsites