Featured Crypto Company Hiring Right Now! cLabs
Introduction: What is cLabs?
cLabs is a member of the Alliance for Prosperity and part of the community working on Celo. Based in Berlin, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and around the world, cLabs' built an open, decentralized platform, designed to support stablecoins and tokenized assets, which are optimized for mobile phones.cLabs is a Teal organization, a method of decentralized management and organizational governance.
Reminder: What is Celo
cLabs ("Celo Labs") started Celo in 2017 and is one of many contributors to the open source project Celo. cLabs builds financial technology to enable prosperity of all beings.
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone and brings financial stability. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.Celo is founded on two core values: unique purpose and connectedness.These, in turn, lead to practices that foster personal growth and community. On this platform, value can be transferred faster and cheaper than traditional bank wires using globally accessible technology.Since cryptocurrencies are completely programmable, a wide array of financial services can be created without costly intermediaries.The company's platform uses alphanumeric strings for transacting in cryptocurrency, enabling users to transfer money in a fast, secure and stable way.
How is cLabs Built?
The Celo network features a stability protocol capable of hosting an ecology of stable value currencies like the Celo Dollar, regional currencies, commodity based stablecoins and more. The cLabs team has created the Celo Wallet, which makes sending stable currencies as easy as sending a text message. Since Celo is completely open-source, developers can collaborate to build financial applications and services to empower people around the world. These applications can range from easier cash transfer programs to peer-to-peer lending, international remittances to digital assets and wallets. These applications aim to solve real-world problems standing in the way of financial inclusion for the people who need it most. Celo’s digital currency — the Celo Dollar stablecoin — provides people all over the world with a stable, secure, cheap, and easy way to move digital currencies and engage in financial activities that were previously inaccessible to them. Celo aims to make digital currencies accessible and easy to use for everyone, regardless of their technical know-how.
Investors
The team at cLabs has managed to attract some outstanding names as investors: Andreessen Horowitz, DTCP and Polychain to name a few.
Founders
Founders include US and EU crypto veterans with a background in Stanford and MIT.
Flagship Product
Valora
Valora is a mobile-first crypto wallet native to the Celo Platform, available on both iOS and Android devices. Valora makes blockchain useful and accessible on even the most basic smartphones, enabling the 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message. Download Valora on the App Store or Play Store.
Current Opportunities
cLabs is hiring 100% remotely - all jobs accept applicants from all over the world. Benefits include:
- Competitive salary and coin plan
- Learning and development budget
- Excellent career prospects
- Mentorship
- Professional coaching
- Direct contribution to a meaningful mission
- Challenging problems
- Flexible schedule
- Fun and global team
- Innovative Teal culture
- Team offsite events
Here are the latest crypto jobs at cLabs:
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Remote, Full Time
Design, Architecture & implement solutions within celo-blockchain (layer 1 & 2). Topic will vary, some examples are network protocols, decentralised protocols, systems throughput optimisations, scalability. Our team is responsible for the Celo's blockchain node; that is the software that maintains a p2p network; where the validators reach consensus new blocks, that then every other node syncs & validates. Our node is based on go-ethereum software with several transformations (like the consensus engine) that makes the Celo blockchain unique. Our main challenges are scaling the network, improving its security and resiliency; and adding new features to the celo ecosystem that can only be done at the node's level (like paying gas with an ERC20 token).
Smart Contracts Engineer
Remote, Full-Time
cLabs is seeking a Smart Contracts Engineer to join our Contracts Team. As part of the contracts team, you will help design and develop Celo's core smart contracts and help develop best practices and processes to ensure those smart contracts are secure. You'll be gathering requirements from Product Managers, Engineering Partners, and other key internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Celo Validators, Celo Stakeholders) in order to determine and implement changes to our core Smart Contracts.You'll be learn to write or writing production-level code in Solidity and Typescript.
Developer Relations Engineer
Remote, Full-Time
Celo aims to remove the barriers for the large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means of payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility.
We are seeking a Developer Relations Engineer to join our Developer Relations team. As a Developer Relations Engineer partner, you will be key to building excitement and interest in the Celo Developer. You will own the relationship with developers building on top of Celo, from building awareness and driving adoption through to supporting established users
Partner, Accounting
Berlin, Germany; Full-Time
As an Accountant at cLabs GmbH, you'll be working in a fast-growing and dynamic team, as we scale our accounting operations and processes in Germany and beyond. You'll be at the forefront, working with our talented team to ensure timely settlement of transactions and reporting while developing robust internal controls and managing day-to-day financial activity.
