[Hiring] Smart Contract Engineer @Chronicle

Role Description

We are looking for a Protocol Engineer with a strong smart contract focus. This is not a narrow Solidity-only role. Smart contract work is central to the position, but in a startup oracle team, on-chain engineering also includes:

• Chain research
• Deployments
• Audits
• Protocol analysis
• Production support
• Off-chain data flows
• Operational tooling

You will work on:

• EVM smart contracts
• Oracle deployments
• Audit cycles
• DeFi protocol analysis
• Data models that help turn protocol state into reliable oracle values

This role is a good fit if you like smart contracts, but also enjoy understanding how protocols work end to end. It is not a good fit if you only want to write Solidity and avoid operational or off-chain context. This is an individual contributor role with meaningful ownership and close collaboration across engineering.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience with Solidity and EVM smart contracts
• Good understanding of EVM internals, including storage, gas, calldata, events and transaction execution
• Experience with Foundry or comparable smart contract tooling
• Strong CS fundamentals
• Good applied cryptography fundamentals
• Security-focused mindset and interest in smart contract review
• Good understanding of DeFi mechanics, including pools, vaults, lending, staking, collateral and token accounting
• Ability to reason from protocol mechanics to data requirements and calculation logic
• Practical backend literacy, preferably with Go, Python, Rust or similar tooling
• Ability to work independently, ask good questions early and deliver within agreed timelines
• Clear written English and strong documentation habits

Requirements

• Strong practical experience with Solidity and EVM smart contracts
• Good understanding of EVM internals
• Experience with Foundry or comparable smart contract tooling
• Good applied cryptography fundamentals
• Security-focused mindset
• Good understanding of DeFi mechanics
• Practical backend literacy
• Ability to work independently
• Clear written English

Benefits

• Production oracle infrastructure used across DeFi and tokenized asset ecosystems
• Direct exposure to smart contract security, audits and deployments
• Work across on-chain systems, oracle methodology and production data flows
• An experienced, globally distributed engineering team
• Competitive compensation package
• Equity participation
• Flexible payment options, including USD, EUR and USDC
• 6 weeks vacation
• Remote-first environment
• Flexible working schedule
• Annual company offsites