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Senior Backend Engineer

Flashbots is a research and development organization focused on mitigating the negative externalities of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on Ethereum and other blockchains.

Flashbots

Employee count: 11-50


About us

At Flashbots, we're building the foundations of the future Internet and financial system. As an R&D organization, we focus on MEV through our dual engines of open research and breakthrough product development – like mev-geth, Flashbots Protect, MEV-Boost, MEV-Share, Flashblocks, and BuilderNet.

Our vibe is accelerationist, exceptional, kind, and independent. We are explorers, innovators, builders, and thinkers. We thrive on action, curiosity, and impact - driving the future in an iterative way while keeping an eye towards the long term version we want to see in the world.

Flashbots is searching for senior backend engineers for our team focused on rollups. In this role you'll work on foundational infra for leadings rollups, tackle complex technical challenges where each millisecond matters, and work with industry leading experts across scaling, MEV, and DeFi. Your contributions will shape flagship products like Flashblocks and BuilderNet while driving forward essential open-source innovations.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead the development of flagship products and features for rollups.

  • Work closely with product, engineering, data, and research teams to do everything from designing to operating cutting-edge crypto infrastructure.

  • Push the boundaries for performance for rollups; optimizing for each millisecond to get the most economic activity per second.

  • Contribute to open source projects, whether that's our own or close partner's.

Who You Are:

  • 4-10 years of experience with production systems.

  • You have strong skills in Rust or Go. Bonus points if you’ve dabbled in execution layer/node projects like Geth or Reth.

  • Whether you’re working independently or leading a cross-functional team, you have exceptional communication and coordination skills.

  • You’ve made meaningful contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem. If you have any, send example PRs or commits to [email protected] to have your application prioritized.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Ethereum, Geth, or other Ethereum clients

    • Alternatively: adjacent infrastructure (e.g., indexers or p2p overlays).

  • Worked with Solidity or other smart contract languages.

  • You have contributed to open-source work/projects or participate in public technical discourse, such as contributing to protocol specifications.


Details that matter

  • Significantly above market rate equity compensation package

  • Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work

  • Attractive health coverage package for US employees

  • $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals

  • Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space

  • Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant

  • Remote working - work from anywhere in the world

  • Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events

At Flashbots, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.

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Experience level

Senior

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Open to candidates from all countries.

Hiring timezones

Worldwide

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At Flashbots, we are at the forefront of blockchain innovation, pioneering research and development to address the complex challenges and negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on Ethereum and other stateful blockchains. Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to open-source principles, Flashbots is revolutionizing the transaction supply chain. Our core mission is to illuminate, democratize, and distribute MEV, fostering a permissionless, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for all participants. We develop critical infrastructure and sophisticated tooling designed to enhance the efficiency, fairness, and security of block production. Key innovations include MEV-Boost, which empowers Ethereum validators by providing access to a competitive block-building market, and Flashbots Protect, an RPC endpoint offering users enhanced transaction privacy and protection against front-running and sandwich attacks.

Flashbots operates through two interconnected engines: Flashbots Product and Flashbots Research. Our product division focuses on building robust, market-driven solutions like BuilderNet, a decentralized block-building network leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and high-performance block builders written in Rust like rbuilder and op-rbuilder. Simultaneously, Flashbots Research delves into the intricate dynamics of MEV, exploring novel cryptographic methods, economic incentives, and security models. We are actively investigating advanced concepts such as Rollup-Boost for Layer 2 scaling solutions and the potential of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to further enhance privacy and fairness. Our commitment extends to fostering a vibrant community, sharing our findings openly, and collaborating with researchers and developers worldwide to ensure the long-term health and decentralization of public blockchains. Through these efforts, Flashbots is dedicated to shaping a more equitable and resilient future for decentralized systems, ensuring that the benefits of MEV are harnessed responsibly and its potential pitfalls are effectively mitigated through continuous technological advancement.

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