Senior Smart Contract Engineer for Starknet (100% remote)

Requirements:

About the position in the next 6 months
We will be implementing the Starknet version of the DAI wormhole. It will involve:

• develop the wormhole oracle on Starknet (providing mint attestation)
• update our L1 and L2 bridge contracts with wormhole -specific functions
• develop the Maker core module other related Maker contracts (see Maker documentation)
  
• build unit tests and end-to-end tests working across L1, Starknet, and other rollup
  

We will be implementing multi-collateral DAI on Starknet. It will involve:

• develop the liquidation module
• develop the price oracle module
• develop emergency shutdown
• develop the system stabilizer module

Expectations

• Contribute to design discussion
  
• Find pragmatic solutions to hard technical challenges
• Understand trust assumptions and ability to identify attack vectors
• Technical leader with strong smart contract development background

About you.

Our ideal candidate:

• has an extensive experience in back-end software engineering;
• has experience building on Layer-2 scaling solutions, and its associated challenges (bridges, oracles, data availability, finality etc...);
• has experience developing Solidity smart contract and protocols. Has developed smart contracts that were pushed onto Mainnet;
• is a team player, has mentored Engineers; and
• is eager to learn Cairo (Starknet language) and has some experience with zk-proofs
  
  

Practical aspects and compensation

• We are a small team, financed by both Starkware and Maker
  
• This position requires at least a 12 months commitment. Opportunity to continue with the core unit, or work for Maker, or work for Starkware afterwards
• Competitive salary, can be in DAI or FIAT
• Maker bonus

About us

We are a Maker Core Unit (Starknet Engineering Core Unit) finance 50/50 by Maker and Starknet. We are a small team of 3 members (one Facilitator, 2 Engineers). Our Core Unit was ratified in September 2021. Our ultimate mandate is to rebuild Maker onto Starknet. In phase I we built a simple bridge between Maker and Starknet. Phase II will start in January and will implement the wormhole design aiming at making DAI the easiest stablecoin to move around the ecosystem.

About Maker and Starknet

Maker is one of the biggest and most established DeFi protocol with ~$20Bn of value locked. Starknet is the zk-rollup by Starkware that just launched the alpha of its mainnet. Starkware is a $2bn company and their previous scalability solution (Starkex) is used by dYdX, Deversifi, ImmutableX, and Sorare.

References:

• Wormhole design
• Starknet implementation details