ABOUT BANYAN 

Banyan is a decentralized bridge and storage DAO, built to store files safely and trustlessly in the distributed cloud. Akin to NFT.storage or web3.storage, our infrastructure will upload files from L1s like Ethereum, Solana, and Binance to storage options like Filecoin and IPFS, under carefully-designed incentives to ensure files are protected long-term. Our expansion plan is to start by being the long-term storage solution for L2s' transaction history, then to corner the market for all Metaverse uploads to Filecoin, Sia, and Arweave, from chains with DeFi and NFT ecosystems, starting with Chainlink-compatible ones like Ethereum and Polygon. We are a US-Based Protocol Labs Network company, we're in Startup with Chainlink, and we recently joined ySprout, a tech incubator program with Yearn.finance. We are a small, tight-knit team, currently made up of a majority of University of Chicago students and alumni. Currently, we're operating off grant funding, but are wrapping up our seed funding round at a USD33M valuation, led by Polychain.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are a small, tight-knit team looking for a self-motivated, experienced Solidity developer to help turn our design into a Solidity prototype for deployment on testnet as rapidly as possible. Coming in at the pre-launch phase, the ideal candidate is an excellent collaborator, able to provide feedback and make adjustments as needed.

Specifically, your first task will be smart contract development for our v0 product. We have the incentive structure and a sketch of the code done, but we need your expertise to ensure we're building contracts with an easily secured, gas-efficient, modular, upgradeable design, with an ergonomic interface for third-party usage. You'll be working closely with our founders to get a prototype launched on testnet within the next two months. Although we would prefer to interview people who are interested in joining the team long-term and eventually being considered for a technical leadership role, we are open to discussing short-term contractual engagements with experienced candidates. Pay for either option is negotiable and will be in a combination of vested tokens and cash, with more tokens/equity potential for long-term-aligned candidates.

YOU SHOULD APPLY IF YOU HAVE:

• 1+ years of experience in Solidity development, ideally with a portfolio of work that we can check out. More experience is a plus and will be reflected with extra compensation and ownership.
• Strong intuition for designing clean interfaces and modular code.
• Knowledge and interest pertaining to tokenomics and typical crypto incentive structures.
• Bachelor's-degree-equivalent experience in computer science or related technical field (such as mathematics).
• Good English communication skills (written and spoken).
• A demonstrated ability to self-motivate in a 100% remote work environment.
• A willingness to pair-program, when needed, is a plus, potentially with more junior team members.

TO APPLY:

Please send a resume, plus a note explaining your interest in working with Banyan and relevant work experience. Adding one or two GitHub links where we can look at your previous work will make your application stand out! More information about Banyan can be found by visiting our website at banyan.computer. Please feel free to shoot us an email with any further questions.