Software Engineer - Specular

Specular is a system designed to scale Ethereum securely, with minimal additional trust assumptions. It is the first EVM-native optimistic rollup, relying on existing Ethereum infrastructure to enable native compatibility for Ethereum applications and tooling. Specular’s underlying protocol is designed with resilience in mind, minimizing trust in any one component, and maximizing the ability to participate permissionlessly. In particular, Specular achieves:

1. a minimal trusted computing base, improving security, auditability and upgradeability;

2. support for permissionless, trust-minimized participation of any Ethereum client, enabling client diversity; and

3. efficient dispute resolution.

You can find more information in our full manuscript, and our blog post.

We are looking for motivated, creative, and team-oriented individuals with experience in blockchain technology to join our growing team as a Software Engineer. At Specular, you will have the ability to work on a remote team, share new ideas, and collaborate on projects in the Ethereum rollup/layer-2 scalability solutions space.

Responsibilities

1. Contribute to core engineering work across Specular’s technical stack, e.g. smart contracts, operational nodes, developer tooling and various web2 front-ends.

2. Work with internal team members as well as external contributors on integration and infrastructure

Minimum Requirements

1. Prior experience working on distributed systems, security and/or cryptography.

2. Prior experience with Rust, Go programming language and/or Solidity.

Preferred Requirements

1. Deep understanding of public blockchain infrastructure (e.g. clients, such as Geth).

2. Prior experience building systems with off-chain and on-chain components, such as rollups.

3. Prior devops experience.

4. Prior startup experience.

5. Familiarity with web3 tooling such as Foundry/Forge and Hardhat.