About Agora
Agora is working towards a new paradigm for group collaboration by creating the tools for communities to work together onchain. This is not yet-another-productivity-saas. We believe that to enable the next era of collaboration, we need software that can bend current and create new incentives. No amount of removing friction will change how we work together if our reward functions are misaligned. Agora is working tirelessly on the best end-to-end governance platform for crypto protocols – the first instance of at-scale onchain collaboration. Leading communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, and more rely on Agora to coordinate their community around critical protocol upgrades, ecosystem funding, and steward their ecosystem for the future. But that’s not where we stop. Our goal is to build deep collaboration tools for people who couldn’t care less about crypto so that one day (soon), your friends back home are using Agora without ever knowing we’re on Ethereum.
What you'll do
What You'll Do:
- Write great code: Write clear, maintainable, and secure smart contract code.
- Be security minded first: Lead rigorous testing, auditing, and penetration tests to ensure bulletproof contracts.
- Design with earnest partners: Partner with leading clients (Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, Scroll) to design governance features aligned with their unique ecosystems.
- Stay hungry and foolish: Stay ahead with emerging tech like MACI private voting, ZK-proofs (e.g., Succinct's SP1 zkVM), WorldID integration, and novel governance structures.
Some projects you will work on:
- Private Voting: Implement advanced privacy solutions like Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI), secure TEE compute and other privacy first solutions into new and existing governance systems.
- zkProofs and governance: Integrate cutting-edge zk systems (e.g., Succinct’s SP1 zkVM) to enhance scalability and privacy and unlock new features not before possible.
- Cross chain governance and execution: Many protocols live and govern on multiple chains, be at the cutting edge designing solutions for these unique and complex workflows.
- Identity: Work with identity verification systems such as WorldID for secure, verified governance participation.
- Advanced staking and participation models: Work on veTokens and other staking incentive based governance systems.
- Modular governance: Build and ship modular components for the next generation of governance platforms.
Agora's Contract Stack: Foundry is our core Solidity toolchain, powering our development lifecycle from testing to deployment. Familiarity with Foundry’s build, testing, scripting, and debugging capabilities is essential to success at Agora.
Agora's Core Values
- Pick Up the Trash: Leave the docs, the code and the culture better than when you found it.
- Operate in Zone 4: Push yourself to work hard but at a sustainable pace.
- You Have the Ball: You are the logos who brings order to chaos.
Ideal Candidate
- Critical thinker: You see beyond today's challenges, shaping the future of decentralized governance.
- Attentive to details: You love getting into the weeds and making all the tests go green.
- Protocol curious: Fluent in major crypto protocols, design patterns, and governance standards.
- Onchain builder: Passionate about bringing the world onchain and love exploring new technologies like ZK proofs, account abstraction, and Layer 2 innovations.
- Open source lover: Active contributor to open-source communities.
Why Agora?
- Ownership & Impact: Equity, autonomy, and the chance to shape a leading governance platform.
- Dynamic Environment: Your work will always be interesting and you will be getting paid well to learn and develop
- Collaborative: We are a team first. We raise up, build up and support each other. You will do your best work with the best onchain team.
- Growth opportunities: Clearly defined paths into senior technical and leadership roles as we scale if you are interested... or you can stay where you are and grow in depth.
Locations
Fully remote with team hubs in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. Work during EST -> PST friendly hours with quarterly team off-sites across North and South America.
Can't wait for you to apply!