Smart Contract Engineer

🦋 About Morpho

Morpho Labs is an R&D company contributing to Morpho, one of the largest Decentralized Finance protocol with almost $1B in deposited assets. We raised $20M from the world’s best crypto investors including a16z, Variant, Coinbase, and many more.

We are on a mission to make Finance a common good. We are doing this by providing access to resilient, efficient, and open lending services for builders, crypto-native institutions, and individuals alike. We are also passionate about building a great workplace in the process, where everyone is happy to come to work in the morning. Join us to make it happen!

🧢 About the Team

This role will be part of the Onchain Team, led by Merlin, one of Morpho’s cofounders. They are a Solidity task force in charge of building and improving the Morpho protocol, as well as ensuring its safety. We are looking for a strong Software Engineer, who ideally has existing web3 developer experience or is very eager to transition from web2 to web3 (and can learn fast!).

💻 Stack

Solidity, Foundry, Hardhat, Ethers, Typescript, Javascript

📍 Location

Paris 🥖 or remote 🌍 (+/- 9h CET)

🛠 Mission & Responsibilities

Your main tasks will include:

• Contribute to Morpho’s Open Source codebases.
• Increase the testing coverage of our smart contracts using Hardhat and Foundry.
• Design and implement peripheral mechanisms to the Morpho protocol using Solidity or Typescript.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure the security of the protocol.
• Participate in discussions around onchain product design & software design.
• Stay up to date with the latest security best practices and smart contract patterns.
• Improve security best practices within Morpho Labs.

🧙 Must-have Experience & Skills

• You are a top-notch Software Engineer with 5+ years of personal or professional coding experience (e.g. student with significant engineering experience or professional in a tech company).
• You must excel at writing resilient, readable, and well-documented code, and you are a GitHub expert.
• You have experience with unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development, preferably for smart contracts.
• You have strong Math, theoretical computing, and abstraction skills.
• You have experience with Typescript.
• You have native-level fluency in English (spoken and written).

🔮 Nice-to-have Experience & Skills

• [Nice-to-have] You have dabbled in, educated yourself on, or are experienced working on Blockchain Technology and Web3 applications (blockchain fundamentals, common vulnerabilities, the EVM, zero-knowledge proofs, L2s, and bridges).
• [Nice-to-have] You have knowledge in Solidity, Foundry & Hardhat, though professional experience is not mandatory. If you meet our must-have requirements, we’ll be happy to train you to become a Solidity expert!

🤝 Let’s connect if

• You are mission-driven and excited about Morpho’s purpose to make finance a common good.
• You are a humble team player, willing to embrace ideas from others if they are better for the project.
• You have a passion for learning, you constantly seek to upskill by working on side projects in your own time and keeping informed (on DeFi, development, security, etc.).
• You are willing to accept that part of innovating means that sometimes we have to start over and discard what we have been working on.
• You know how to navigate tight deadlines with a determined mindset, in order to achieve the mission.

🎁 What we offer

You will join one of the most important DeFi protocols. We are a really ambitious team, shipping fast with an entrepreneurial mindset. We offer:

• A very stimulating environment. The team members are among the best researchers and engineers on Crypto/DeFi topics.
• The opportunity to contribute to one of the top 3 decentralized lending protocols.
• An attractive package including Morpho protocol tokens 🦋👀.

📩 Apply now!

1. Apply at the following link. Don’t forget to send any relevant information to showcase your skills (GitHub, website, etc.).
2. If you are selected, we will first schedule a short call to get to know you better and explain the position further.
3. The rest of the process will include 4 rounds: a Hiring Manager Interview, a Take-Home Case Study to get you into the heart of what we do, a Live Case Interview with the Hiring Manager and a Team Member, and finally, a Fit Interview with one or more of our Founders.